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ROBIN FRETWELL WILSON University of Illinois 19 Fields East College of Law Champaign, Illinois 61822 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue Cell (540) 958-1389 Champaign, Illinois 61820 [email protected] Tel. (217) 244-1227 Robinfretwellwilson.org Fax (217) 244-1478 Robinfretwellwilson.com TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2013 – Present University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law and Director, Family Law and Policy Program (2013 – Present) Director, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy (2016 – Present) Director, Fairness For All Initiative supported by the Templeton Religion Trust and the First Amendment Partnership through directed gifts (2016 – Present) Director, Tolerance Means Dialogues supported by directed gifts (2016 – Present) Director, Substance Abuse and Addiction Affinity Group, Institute for Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois System Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine Urbana- Champaign (2016 – Present) Teaching areas include: biomedical ethics; children’s health, violence and the law; family law; seminar on tolerance. University service: Provost’s Named Faculty Appointment Committee (2013 – 2017). Law school service: Admissions Committee (2014 – 2015); Faculty Retreat Co-Chair (2014 – 2015); Student scholarship committee (2013 – 2014, 2015 – 2016, Chair, 2017 – 2018); Chairs and Professorship Committee (2016 – 2017); Clerkship Committee, Chair, 2018 – 2019). 2007 – 2013 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia Class of 1958 Law Alumni Professor of Law (2009 – 2013) and Law Alumni Faculty Fellow (2011 – 2012) Professor of Law and Law Alumni Faculty Fellow (2008 – 2009) Professor of Law (2007 – 2013) Director and Founder, Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium (2008 – 2013) Teaching areas included: family law; seminar on children, culture and violence; law and social science seminar; advanced family law practicum; health law practicum; insurance. Law School Service and Awards: Law Alumni Faculty Fellow Award for Scholarship, 2011 – 2012; Louise Halper Diversity Award, Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, 2011; Teacher of the Year, Women Law Students’ Association, 2008; Law Alumni Faculty Fellow Award for Scholarship, 2008 – 2009; Director and Founder, Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium, 2008 – 2013. 1 University Service: Ad Hoc Review Committee on Alcohol and Sexual Assault (2009- 2010); Faculty Administrators Evaluation Committee (2007 – 2011, Chair, 2009 – 2010); Student-Faculty Hearing Board (2008 – 2010, Chair, 2009 – 2010). Law School Service: Appointments Committee (2007 – 2008, 2010 – 2011; 2011 – 2012); Educational Planning and Curriculum Committee (2007 – 2008); Law Center Committee (2007 – 2008, 2009 – 2010); Faculty Advisor, Washington and Lee Law Review (2007 – 2013); Faculty Co-Advisor, Washington and Lee Health Law Association (2007 – 2013); Faculty Co-Advisor, Washington and Lee Wine Law Society (2011 – 2013). 2004 – 2007 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland Professor of Law (2006 – 2007) Associate Professor of Law (2004 – 2006) Teaching areas included: children’s health, violence and the law; health care law; insurance; and bioethics. University Service: Faculty Senate (2005 – 2006). Law school service: Appointments Committee (2004 – 2006); Faculty Liaison, Paul M. Cordish Memorial Writing Competition In Insurance (2005 – 2006); Faculty Advisor, Journal of Health Care Law & Policy (2004 – 2006); Member, University of Maryland Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery (2004 – 2006). 1998 – 2004 University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina Associate Professor of Law (2003 – 2004) Assistant Professor of Law (1998 – 2003) Teaching areas included: family law; health care law; insurance; and bioethics. Outstanding Faculty Publication Award, 2003; Director and Founder, Johnson & Johnson Health Law Lecture Series (1999 – 2004). University Service: Faculty Senate (1999 – 2002). Law School Service: Dean Search Committee (2002 – 2003); Executive Committee (2001 – 2002); Faculty Selection Committee (1999 – 2000); Student-Faculty Task Force (1998 – 2002); Library Committee (1998 – 1999); Academic Standing Committee (1998); Faculty Advisor, Health Law Society (2000 – 2004); Faculty Advisor, JD-MHA Dual Degree Program (2001 – 2004). TEACHING VISITS Spring 2020 University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colorado Visiting Professor, teaching courses in Biomedical Ethics and Family Law Fall 2019 Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel Visiting Professor, teaching course in Biomedical Ethics in Comparative Perspective Summer 2015 ILawVentures Summer 2016 Taught Family Law to students across the country in an on-line platform Summer 2017 Summer 2018 Summer 2019 May 2008 University of Padua, Padua, Italy May 2009 Visiting Lecturer in Family Law 2 May 2010 May 2012 May 2013 April 2016 May 2018 May 2019 Fall 2010 University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Fall 2012 Visiting Professor and Francis H. Hare Chair, teaching Biomedical Ethics (2010); Biomedical Ethics Seminar (2012) 2006 – 2007 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia Visiting Professor of Law University Service: Faculty Advisor, Moot Court Team, American Bar Association Arbitration Competition. Fall 2003 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland Visiting Associate Professor of Law University Service: Organizer, Panel on Survival Tactics for Future Law Firm Associates. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE 2018 – Present University of Illinois System, Institute for Government and Public Affairs Director, Substance Abuse and Addiction Affinity Group (2018 – Present) 2016 – Present University of Illinois College of Law, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy (https://law.illinois.edu/faculty-research/specialty-programs/epstein-health-law-and- policy/; https://robinfretwellwilson.com/epstein) Director (2016 – Present); Co-Director (Spring 2016); initiatives include: ▪ New Perspectives on Health Policy: Annual Symposium (2017 conference on the Medicalization of Poverty, including keynote addresses by the Honorable Thomas Thompson, former Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Nobel leaureate James Heckman of the University of Chicago) ▪ Conversations with the Author (inaugural conversation with Dr. Paul Offit, author of BAD FAITH: WHEN RELIGIOUS BELIEF UNDERMINES MODERN MEDICINE, Spring 2015) ▪ Roundtable Discussions on Pressing Issues in Health Care (first roundtable was co-convened with Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine and founder of The Institute for Global Child Advocacy in January 2017) ▪ A Lens Into Health Law Practice: Conversations with Members of the Practicing Bar 2016 – Present Fairness For All Initiative, University of Illinois College of Law (https://robinfretwellwilson.com/ffa/) Director and Founder ▪ Established by directed gift from the Templeton Religion Trust to assist state lawmakers, policymakers, and stakeholders interested in pursuing balanced laws that protect both the LGBT and faith communities 3 ▪ Together with Utah Senate Majority Whip Senator J. Stuart Adams, have conducted Fairness For All Summits in 8 states in academic year 2016 – 2017 or otherwise supported state lawmakers and stakeholders to enact balanced legislation 2016 – Present Tolerance Means Dialogues, University of Illinois College of Law (https://robinfretwellwilson.com/tmd/) Director and Founder ▪ Supported by directed gift that provide scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students for presenting their views on the meaning of tolerance in various contested domains, like child welfare and faith healing or the intersection of nondiscrimination law with faith tenets ▪ Dialogue partners include prominent gay rights thought leaders, including Yale University Professor, William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Counsel to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Shannon Minter 2014 – Present University of Illinois College of Law, Family Law and Policy Program (https://law.illinois.edu/faculty-research/specialty-programs/family-law-and-policy/; https://robinfretwellwilson.com/flpp/) Director and Founder; initiatives include: ▪ Annual Lifetime Achievement Award in Family Law (past honorees include George Washington University Professor Naomi Cahn, Yale University Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr., and Emory University Professor John Witte, Jr.) ▪ The Harry Krause Emerging Family Law Scholars Workshop (inaugural Workshop in January 2015 hosted 5 new scholars drawn from among 26 applicants from 5 countries) ▪ Conversations With The Author (2017 conversation with Dr. Amy Ziettlow, co- author of HOMEWARD BOUND) ▪ Conversations on the Family: Bringing Together the Judiciary, Legislators, Practicing Bar, and Family Law Scholars (inaugural conversation on “When Economic Struggles Constrain Family Choices” featuring Andrew Cherlin, William Galston, and Justice Leah Sears, among others, occurred on November 13, 2015) ▪ International Scholar in Residence (inaugural scholar, Professor Federica Giardini, Department of Private Law and Critique of Law, University of Padua, Italy, April 2015) ▪ Better Angels Award (the first honoree, in 2016, was Judge Arnold Blockman of the Champaign County Court, family division) ▪ A Lens Into Family Law Practice: Conversations with Members of the Practicing Bar (Inaguaral event on February 24, 2017 with Michael Strauss, Partner at Schlesinger