ROBIN FRETWELL WILSON
University of Illinois System University of Illinois System Institute of Government and Public Affairs Institute of Government and Public Affairs 1007 W. Nevada, MC-037 12535 Halsted St., MC-191 Urbana, Illinois 61801 Chicago, Illinois 60607 Tel. (217) 244-1227 [email protected] Cell (540) 958-1389 Robinfretwellwilson.com
APPOINTMENTS
2020 – Present Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois System Director (2020 – Present) Chair, Substance Use Disorder Working Group (2019 – Present)
2013 – Present University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law (2013 – Present)
Co-Director and Founder, Family Law and Policy Program (2020 – Present); Director (2016 – 2020) Co-Director, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy (2020 – Present); Director (2016 – 2020) 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) Associate Dean for Public Engagement (2019 – 2020)
Carle Illinois College of Medicine Professor, Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences (2020 – Present)
University of Illinois College of Medicine Urbana-Champaign Professor, Department of Pathology (2016 – Present)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Founding Faculty Member, Genomic Security and Privacy Research Theme (2019 – Present)
Teaching areas include: biomedical ethics; children’s health, violence and the law; family law; seminar on tolerance
University service: Provost's Campus Taskforce on Recognizing and Supporting Public Engagement (2019 – Present); 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); Chair, Clerkship Committee (2018 – 2019)
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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 – 2009)
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
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.
University Service: Faculty Senate (1999 – 2002)
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TEACHING VISITS
Spring 2020 University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colorado Visiting Professor, teaching courses in Biomedical Ethics and Family Law
Winter 2019 Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel Visiting Professor, teaching course in Biomedical Ethics in Comparative Perspective
Summer 2015-2020 ILawVentures Taught Family Law to students across the country in an on-line platform
May 2019 University of Padua, Padua, Italy May 2018 Visiting Lecturer in Family Law April 2016 May 2013 May 2012 May 2010 May 2009 May 2008
Fall 2012 University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Fall 2010 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
2020 – Present Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois System Director, Substance Abuse Disorder Working Group
2019 – 2020 University of Illinois College of Law
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2019 – Present Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois System Chair, Substance Abuse Disorder Working Group
2016 – Present Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, University of Illinois College of Law (https://www.epsteinprogram.com) Co-Director (2020 – Present); Director (2016 – 2020); Co-Director (Spring 2016); initiatives include: ▪ New Perspectives on Health Policy Symposia (2017 conference on the MEDICALIZATION OF POVERTY included keynote addresses by the Honorable Thomas Thompson, former Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of the U.D. Department of Health and Human Services, and Nobel laureate James Heckman of the University of Chicago and resulted in the 2018 symposium by the same name in the JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS) ▪ 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 (most recently, co- convened a Roundtable on the Medicalization of Poverty in Chicago with former Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health Marissa Levine) ▪ A Lens into Health Law Practice: Conversations with Members of the Practicing Bar ▪ Annual Law Reform Effort (in 2019, supporting stakeholders and lawmakers in 17 states as they seek to enact laws giving women autonomy to decide whether to be used for teaching of intimate exams, with four bills becoming law since January 1, 2019: Utah, Maryland, Delaware, and New York)
2016 – Present Fairness for All Initiative, University of Illinois College of Law (https://www.fairnessforallinitiative.com) 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 ▪ Together with Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, have conducted Fairness for All Summits in 13 states since 2016 or otherwise supported state lawmakers and stakeholders to pursue balanced legislation ▪ Piloted the INCLUSIVE AMERICA DIALOGUES with the August 2019 Inclusive Midwest Initiative: Respectfully Sharing the Public Square (fairnessforallinitiative.com/midwest-initiative), which brought together lawmakers of the 12 Midwest states, members of the LGBTQ and faith communities, and Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 company representatives, including Allstate, Eli Lilly, Health Care Service Corporation—Blue Cross Blue Shield, SalesForce, and Zurich North America
2016 – Present Tolerance Means Dialogues, University of Illinois College of Law (https://www.tolerancemeans.com) Director and Founder ▪ Supported by directed gifts since its founding in 2017 to provide scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students for exploring the meaning of tolerance in various contested domains, like child welfare and faith healing or the intersection of nondiscrimination law with faith tenets
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2014 – Present Family Law and Policy Program, University of Illinois College of Law (https://www.familylawprogram.com) Co-Director (2020 – Present); Director (2014 – 2020); initiatives include: ▪ National and International Convenings (most recently, with Family As The Crucible Of Culture And Society: Inequality, Vulnerability, And Justice Within the Family, under the umbrella of the United Nation’s Committee with oversight for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Notre Dame Law School, The Rackman Center - Bar-Ilan University, the International Society for Family Law, and the Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago, Illinois) ▪ Annual Lifetime Achievement Award in Family Law (past honorees include Baroness Ruth Deech, House of Lords, United Kingdom; 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 (Workshops have hosted scholars from across the U.S. and world since 2015) ▪ Conversations with The Author (conversations have featured New York Times bestselling author Paul Offit and faculty from across the country, most recently Jill Hasday, University of Minnesota) ▪ 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 (inaugural event on February 24, 2017 with Michael Strauss, Partner at Schlesinger & Strauss, LLC) ▪ Partnerships to Explore Pressing Issues in Family Law (in 2016, hosted a conversation with Brookings Institute scholar Jonathan Rauch on Gay Rights, Nondiscrimination, and Religious Liberty: Can We Avoid a Train Wreck?)
2008 – 2013 Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium Series, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia Director and Founder Solicited gift resulting in the Colloquium Series and directed the Series
Summer 2006 University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina Consultant on Faculty Development and Engagement
1999 – 2004 Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Law Lecture Series, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina Director and Founder Solicited annually renewing gift resulting in the Lecture Series and directed Lecture Series 5
2002 – 2004 Students Assisting Seniors, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina Founder and Co-principal Investigator Secured funding for and directed joint project of the University of South Carolina Schools of Law and Public Health to secure additional social benefits for low-income senior citizens. The savings to seniors enrolled during SAS’ first year of operation exceeded $210,000 over their lifetimes, a return of over 14 times the pilot grant received from the Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging
HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS
2020 Designated IHSS Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Fall 2020 by Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom
2019 Named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and World Learning for work on Civil Rights Complementarity
2019 Ranked as one of the Top 15 Law and Medicine Scholars in the United States in terms of scholarly impact by the Epstein Health Law & Policy Program’s Review of Scholarly Impact (https://www.epsteinprogram.com/law-medicine-and-health- care-scholarly-impact-ranking)
2019 Named as Chair of the Substance Use Disorder Working Group by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois (roughly one-third of its legislative portfolio)
2018 Ranked as one of the Top 10 Family Law Scholars in the United States in terms of scholarly impact in Brian Leiter’s 2018 Review of Scholarly Impact
2018 Recipient of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society’s 2018 Thomas L. Kane Religious Freedom Award, presented annually to an individual who exemplifies the spirit of religious liberty for all
2018 Named as one of the 150 for 150: Celebrating the Accomplishments of Women at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for its sesquicentennial celebration
2017 Consultant to United Arab Emirates’ Judicial Department to assist authorities to create a parallel court system for the adjudication by expatriates of family law matters using the laws of their home country or of their faith traditions; introduction by United States State Department
2017 Ranked among Top 10% of Authors by All-Time Downloads by the Social Science Research Network
2016 Ranked as one of the Top 10 Family Law Scholars in the United States in terms of scholarly impact in Brian Leiter’s 2016 Review of Scholarly Impact
2015 Honored at Signing of the Utah Compromise, receiving one of 16 signing pens in recognition of work with the Utah Legislature to enact its landmark LGBT nondiscrimination law, Senate Bill 296
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2014 Named the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
2014 Elected to the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law
2012 Elected to the Executive Council of the International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family
2011 – 2012 Law Alumni Faculty Fellow Award for Scholarship, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2011 2011 Louise Halper Diversity Award, Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2010 Ranked as one of the Top 10 Family Law Scholars in the United States in terms of scholarly impact in Brian Leiter’s 2010 Review of Scholarly Impact
2010 Delivered the 2010 Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture in Family Law, Hofstra University School of Law
2009 Appointed as a Chaired Professor, the Class of 1958 Law Alumni Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2009 Elected to the American Law Institute
2008 – 2009 Law Alumni Faculty Fellow Award for Scholarship, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2008 Teacher of the Year, Women Law Students’ Association, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2007 Litteras Honoris for contributions to the XX Conference of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law, presented by the Kopaonik School of Natural Law, Mt. Kopaonik, Serbia
2007 Citizen’s Legislative Award, presented by Delegate Robert Bell, Virginia House of Delegates, for work on Virginia’s informed consent legislation
2003 Outstanding Faculty Publication Award, University of South Carolina School of Law
BOOKS
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LGBT RIGHTS, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMON GROUND (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018) ▪ Reviewed in Kathie Obradovich, What If Iowa Could Protect Both Religious Freedom and LGBTQ Rights? DES MOINES REGISTER (May 17, 2019); Mark David Hall, The Road to Compromise, LAW & LIBERTY (March 4, 2019) ▪ Explored in public dialogues with lawmakers in Idaho (with Idaho Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, Idaho Senator Grant Burgoyne, Idaho Representative John McCrostie, February 21, 2019); Ohio (with former Representative Bill Hayes and Tim Brown, March 27, 2019); and Iowa (Senator Jake Chapman, April 9, 2019) ▪ Reprinted as paperback, 2019
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THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LAW (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018) ▪ Reviewed in Marie Failinger, Review of The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law, 2019 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ONLINE 101; Kathleen A. Brady, Review of The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law, 7 OXFORD JOURNAL OF LAW & RELIGION 364 (2018); Douglas Laycock, Review of The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law, JOURNAL OF CHURCH & STATE (April 1, 2019); Stephanie H. Barclay, A Dialogue about Religious Beliefs and Third-Party Harms in Family Law, FAMILY LAW QUARTERLY (2019) ▪ Reprinted as paperback, 2019
FAMILY LAW IN PERSPECTIVE, 4th edition (Foundation Press, 2018) (with Walter Wadlington and Raymond C. O’Brien) ▪ Translated into Chinese, 2019
DOMESTIC RELATIONS: CASES AND MATERIALS, 8th edition (Foundation Press, 2017) (with Walter Wadlington and Raymond C. O’Brien)
FAMILY LAW STATUTES: SELECTED UNIFORM LAWS, MODEL LEGISLATION, FEDERAL STATUTES, STATE STATUTES, AND INTERNATIONAL TREATIES, 5th edition (Foundation Press, 2017) (with Walter Wadlington and Raymond C. O’Brien)
STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING FAMILY LAW (Aspen Publishers, 2014)
UNDERSTANDING FAMILY LAW, 4th edition (LexisNexis, 2013) (with John DeWitt Gregory and Peter N. Swisher)
DOMESTIC RELATIONS: CASES AND MATERIALS, 7th edition (Foundation Press, 2013) (with Walter Wadlington and Raymond C. O’Brien)
HEALTH LAW AND BIOETHICS: CASES IN CONTEXT (Sandra H. Johnson, Joan H. Krause, Richard S. Saver, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Aspen Publishers, 2009) ▪ Cited in Paul Gelsinger, Seeking Justice for My Son, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (Sept. 17, 2009); Robin Fretwell Wilson, Human-Research Oversight is too Lax, ARIZONA DAILY STAR (Sept. 21, 2009)
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: EMERGING CONFLICTS (Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008) ▪ Reviewed or featured in David Cole, The Same-Sex Future, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (July 2, 2009); Robert Vischer, COMMONWEAL MAGAZINE (August 2009); Shannon Gilreath, Not a Moral Issue: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty, 2010 ILLINOIS L. REV. 205; Don Gilgaff, U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT (May 2009), among other publications
RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006) ▪ Featured in Lashieka Purvis Hunter, ESSENCE (Nov. 2012); Leah Ward Sears, A Case for Strengthening Marriage, THE WASHINGTON POST (Oct. 30, 2006); Robin Fretwell Wilson, Don’t Let Divorce Off the Hook, N. Y. TIMES (Oct. 1, 2006); Claudia Anderson, Defining Families Down, THE WEEKLY STANDARD (Sept. 25, 2006), among other publications
HANDBOOK OF CHILDREN, CULTURE & VIOLENCE (Nancy Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Sage Press, 2006)
8 MEDICAL ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM: A SYNOPSIS FOR STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS (2002) (co-author with members of the University of South Carolina Center for Biomedical Ethics)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Fairness for All, in THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND SECURITY (Chris Seiple, Dennis R. Hoover, Pauletta Otis, eds. Routledge, 2021) (with Shirley Hoogstra) (forthcoming)
Respecting Women and Mothers: Building on Professor Sverdrup’s Legacy, in “RETT KVINNE” (RIGHT WOMAN) (Gyldendal Akademisk, 2021) (forthcoming)
Relational Parents: When Adults Receive Rights in Children Because of Their Relationship with a Parent, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CHILDREN AND THE LAW (James G. Dwyer ed., 2020)
A Critique of Informed Consent in the United States, in INFORMED CONSENT AND HEALTH: A GLOBAL ANALYSIS (Thierry Vansweevelt & Nicola Glover-Thomas, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing April 2020)
Fairness for All: The Value of Bridge Building, in RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: STRIVING FOR INCLUSION (Sutherland Institute, 2019)
Finding Common Ground, in RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LGBT RIGHTS, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMON GROUND (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018) (Introduction with William N. Eskridge, Jr.)
Bakers and Bathrooms: How Sharing the Public Square is the Key to a Truce in the Culture Wars, in RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LGBT RIGHTS, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMON GROUND (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Appendix of Laws, in RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LGBT RIGHTS, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMON GROUND (William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Introduction, in THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LAW (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018)
By Faith Alone: When Religion and Child Welfare Collide, in THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LAW (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018) (with Shaakirrah Sanders)
Divorcing Marriage and the State Post-Obergefell, in THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LAW (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Unpacking the Relationship Between Religious Conscience and Access: Bounded Measures, Choke Points, and Gateways, in LAW, RELIGION, AND HEALTH IN AMERICA 242 (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, & Elizabeth Sepper, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016)
The Promise of Informed Consent, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN HEALTH LAW 213 (Glenn Cohen, Allison Hoffman, & William Sage, eds., Oxford University Press, 2016) ▪ Translated into Chinese
The Future of Religious Liberty Protections in Illinois: Harmonizing Religious Exercise and Legitimate Government Concerns, in AN ILLINOIS CONSTITUTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 27 (Illinois Policy Institute, 2016) (with Heidi L. Brady)
9 The Politics of Accommodation: The American Experience with Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom, in RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND GAY RIGHTS: EMERGING CONFLICTS IN UNITED STATES AND EUROPE 132 (Timothy S. Shah & Thomas F. Farr, eds., Oxford University Press, 2016) ▪ Synopsized in Emma Green, Can States Protect LGBT Rights Without Compromising Religious Freedom? THE ATLANTIC (Jan. 6, 2016)
Bargaining for Religious Accommodations: Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights after Hobby Lobby, in THE RISE OF CORPORATE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY 257 (Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, Zoë Robinson, eds., Oxford University Press, 2016) ▪ Featured on Radio West Discussion of Legislative Possibilities in Utah (February 4, 2015)
Demystifying Hobby Lobby, in INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY LAW, 2015 Edition 343 (Bill Atkin, ed., Jordans Publishers, 2015)
The Erupting Clash between Religion and the State over Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion, in RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA: CONSTITUTIONAL TRADITIONS AND NEW HORIZONS 135 (Allen Hertzke ed., University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)
The Perils of Privatized Marriage, in MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN A MULTI-CULTURAL CONTEXT: RECONSIDERING THE BOUNDARIES OF CIVIL LAW AND RELIGION 253 (Joel A. Nichols, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Enlarging the Regulation of Shrinking Cosmetics, in THE NANOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE: CREATING LAW AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS FOR UNCERTAIN RISKS 250 (David Dana, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Estate of Gelsinger v. Trustees of University of Pennsylvania: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research, in HEALTH LAW AND BIOETHICS: CASES IN CONTEXT 229 (Sandra H. Johnson, Joan H. Krause, Richard S. Saver, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., 2009)
Emerging Conflicts between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding A Live-And-Let-Live Solution, in XXI PRAVNI ZIVOT (LEGAL LIFE) NO. 10 (Association of the Jurists of Serbia, 2008)
Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage from the Healthcare Context, in SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: EMERGING CONFLICTS 77 (Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., 2008) ▪ Featured in the Peter Steinfels, N. Y. TIMES (May 2009); Jacqueline Salmon, WASHINGTON POST (May 2009); Ben Smith, The Same-Sex Marriage Amendments, POLITICO (May 2009); Robin Fretwell Wilson, LA Times (May 2009); David Gauvey Herbert, NATIONAL JOURNAL (June 2009), among other publications
Keeping Women in Business (and Family), in RETHINKING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: EXAMINING THE FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION 95 (Samuel Gregg & James R. Stoner, eds., 2008) ▪ Featured in Anita Raghavan, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (April 2008); ABC NEWS (San Francisco) (May 2008); Margaret K. Nelson, THE WASHINGTON POST (July 4, 2010), among other publications
The Harmonisation of Family Law in the United States, in EUROPEAN CHALLENGES IN CONTEMPORARY FAMILY LAW 27 (Katharina Boele-Woelki & Tone Sverdrup, eds., 2008)
Blind Trust: The American Law Institute’s Proposed Treatment of De Facto Parents, in PRAVNI ZIVOT (LEGAL LIFE) NO. 9 OR 10 (Association of the Jurists of Serbia, 2007)
10 Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents, in RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION 90 (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Introduction, in RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION 1 (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not the Child, in HANDBOOK OF CHILDREN, CULTURE & VIOLENCE 39 (Nancy Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Sage, 2006)
Threat Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings: Its Role in Dependency Proceedings, in 2002 ASPEN FAMILY LAW UPDATE (Ron Brown & Laura Morgan, eds., 2001)
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
The Common Sense Case for Common Ground Lawmaking: A Commentary on ‘Why Conservative Religious Organizations and Believers Should Support the Fairness for All Act and Similar Legislation’, ____NOTRE DAME J. OF LEG.______(2020) (with Tanner Bean) (forthcoming)
Title re Little Sisters of the Poor, ______CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW____ (2020) (with Tanner Bean) (forthcoming)
Family Law Isolationism and “Church State and Family,” 34(3) J. LAW & RELIGION XX (2020)
Common Ground Lawmaking: Lessons for Peaceful Coexistence from Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Utah Compromise, 51(3) CONN. L. REV. 1 (2019)
When Academic Freedom Collides with Religious Liberty of Religious Universities, 15(2) ST. THOMAS L. REV. 442 (2019) (with Tanner Bean)
Being Transgender in the Era of Trump: Compassion Should Pick Up Where Science Leaves Off, 8 U.C. IRVINE LAW REVIEW 101 (2018)
Trumpcare: Expect the Phoenix to Rise from the Ashes, 2017 U. ILL. L. REV. ONLINE: Trump 100 Days (April 29, 2017) (with Ryan Graver and Larry Sobal)
The Nonsense About Bathrooms: How Purported Concerns Over Safety Block Much-Needed Non- Discrimination Laws and Obscure Real Religious Liberty Concerns, 20 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 1373 (2017)
‘Getting Government Out of Marriage’ Post Obergefell: The Ill-Considered Consequences of Transforming the State’s Relationship to Marriage, 2016 U. ILL. L. REV. 101 (2016)
Squaring Faith and Sexuality in Religious Institutions: The Unique Challenge of Sports, 34 L. & INEQ.385 (2016)
Colloquium: Religious Liberty After Hobby Lobby: A Panel of the 2014 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention, 48 CONN. L. REV. 971 (2016) (with William L. Saunders, Hon. Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Kim Colby, & William P. Marshall)
The Precarious Status of Domestic Partnerships in a Post-Obergefell World, 24 ELDER L.J. 49 (2016) (with Heidi L. Brady) 11
Bargaining for Civil Rights: Lessons from Mrs. Murphy for Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights, 95 B.U. L. REV. 951 (2015)
When States Regulate Emergency Contraceptives Like Abortion, What Should Guide Disclosure? 43 J.L. MED. & ETHICS 72 (Spring 2015) (with Cameron Flynn)
When Governments Insulate Dissenters from Social Change: What Hobby Lobby and Abortion Conscience Clauses Teach About Specific Exemptions, 48 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 703 (2014)
A Marriage of Necessity: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Protections, 64 CASE W. L. REV. 1161 (2014) ▪ Cited in Sarah Zylstra, Evangelicals’ Favorite Same-Sex Marriage Law? CHRISTIANITY TODAY (Jan. 2014)
Embracing Compromise: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty in the Political Process, 15 GEO. J. GENDER & L. 485 (2014) (with Anthony Kreis)
Emergency Contraceptives or ‘Abortion-Inducing’ Drugs? Empowering Women to Make Informed Decisions, 71 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1385 (2014) (with Ryan M. Hrobak)
The Overlooked Benefit of Minimalism: Perry v. Brown and the Future of Marriage Equality, 37 N.Y.U. REV. LAW & SOC. CHANGE 35 (2013) (with Anthony Kreis)
The Calculus of Accommodation: Contraception, Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage, and Other Clashes Between Religion and the State, 53 B.C. L. REV. 1417 (2012) ▪ Featured in Robin Fretwell Wilson, TULSA WORLD (Jan. 2013); Ryan Anderson, THE DAILY SIGNAL (June 2014)
Trusting Mothers: A Critique of the American Law Institute's Treatment of De Facto Parents, 38 HOFSTRA L.REV. 1103 (2010) ▪ Publication of invited remarks given as the 2010 Siben Lecture ▪ Featured in Robin Fretwell Wilson, New York Times Room for Debate, N.Y. TIMES (Feb. 2012)
The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research, 36 AM. J.L. & MED. 295 (2010)
Insubstantial Burdens: The Case for Government Employee Exemptions to Same-Sex Marriage Laws, 5 NW. J.L. & SOC. POL’Y 318 (2010)
Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion, 18 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 925 (2010)
Empowering Private Protection of Conscience, 9 AVE MARIA L. REV. 101 (2010)
Sex Play in Virtual Worlds, 66 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1127 (2009) ▪ Featured in FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, VIRTUAL WORLDS AND KIDS: MAPPING THE RISKS: A REPORT TO CONGRESS (December 2009); Emily Smith, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR (March 29, 2010)
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Life after Prop 8, 14 NEXUS 101 (2009)
Beyond the Bounds of Decency: Why Fault Continues to Matter to (Some) Wronged Spouses, 66 WASH. &LEE L. REV. 503 (2009)
12 American Law Institute’s PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION, Eight Years after Adoption: Guiding Principles or Obligatory Footnote?” 50th Anniversary Issue, 42 FAM. L.Q. 573 (Fall 2008) (co-authored with Michael Clisham) ▪ Featured in the Mark Hansen, ABA JOURNAL (Aug. 2009); Cheryl Wetzstein, THE WASHINGTON TIMES (March 2009)
The Overlooked Costs of Religious Deference, 64 WASH. AND LEE L. REV. 1363 (2008) ▪ Featured in the Adam Liptak, N.Y. TIMES (Feb. 2008)
The Limits of Conscience: Moral Clashes over Deeply Divisive Healthcare Procedures, 34 AM. J.L. & MED. 41 (2008) ▪ Cited in the Ben Arnoldy, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR (Dec.2008); Rob Stein, National Public Radio (July 2014)
A Matter of Conviction: Moral Clashes Over Same-Sex Adoption, 22 BYU J. PUB. L. 475 (2008)
Unauthorized Practice: Regulating the Use of Anesthetized, Recently Deceased, and Conscious Patients in Medical Teaching, 44 IDAHO L. REV. 423 (2008)
Bringing Up Baby: Adoption, Marriage, and the Best Interests of the Child, 14 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 883 (2006) (with W. Bradford Wilcox)
Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Children? 42 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 847 (2005) ▪ Featured in James Wooten, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION (Dec. 2008)
Autonomy Suspended: Using Female Patients to Teach Intimate Exams without Their Knowledge or Consent, 8 J. HEALTH CARE L. & POL’Y 240 (2005) ▪ Featured in Lauren Markoe, CHICAGO TRIBUNE (June 2003), Good Morning America, ABC NEWS.COM and CNN HEADLINE NEWS (July 2003), and Karen Gurloch, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (June 2003)
Removing Violent Parents from the Home: A Test Case for the Public Health Approach, 12 VA. J. SOC. POL’Y & L. 638 (2005)
Uncovering the Rationale for Requiring Infertility in Surrogacy Arrangements, 29 AM. J.L. & MED. 337 (2003)
The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings, 51 EMORY L.J. 241 (2002)
Children at Risk: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children after Divorce, 86 CORNELL L. REV. 251 (2001) ▪ Featured in Claudia Smith Brinson, THE STATE (Jan. 2001) and David Crary, ASSOCIATED PRESS (Nov. 2007), among others
Hospital Ethics Committees as the Forum of Last Resort: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come, 76 N.C. L. REV. 353 (1998)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Legislative Alert: The Ban on Unauthorized Pelvic Exams, 25(1) N.Y. STATE BAR ASSOC. J. XX (Winter 2020) (with Phoebe Friesen and Roshni D. Persaud)
Moving Beyond Marriage: Health Care and the Social Safety Net for Families, 46 J.L. MED.& ETHICS 636 (2018) (Symposium on the Medicalization of Poverty)
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Realizing Informed Consent in Times of Controversy: Lessons from the SUPPORT Study, 44 J. L. MED. & ETHICS 402 (2016) (with Robert J. Morse)
Limiting the Prerogatives of Legal Parents: Judicial Skepticism of the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents, 25 J. AM.ACAD.MATRIM.LAW. 477 (2013)
Institutional Conscience and Access to Services: Can We Have Both? 15 VIRTUAL MENTOR 226 (2013) (with Cameron Flynn)
Recent Government Reforms Related to Marital Formation, Maintenance, and Dissolution in the United States: A Primer and Critical Review, 8 J.COUPLE AND RELATIONSHIP THERAPY 264 (2009) (with Alan J. Hawkins, Theodora Ooms, Steven L. Nock, Linda Malone-Colon, and Lloyd Cohen)
Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns, 34 J.L. MED. & ETHICS 704 (Winter 2006)
Introduction: A Sympathetic but Critical Assessment of Nanotechnology Initiatives, 34 J. L. MED. & ETHICS 655 (Winter 2006) (with Robert Best and George Khushf)
Recognizing the Threat Posed by an Incestuous Parent to the Victim’s Siblings, Part 1: Appraising the Risk, Featured Article, 13 J. CHILD & FAM. STUD. 143 (2004)
Recognizing the Threat Posed by An Incestuous Parent to the Victim’s Siblings, Part 2: Improving Legal Responses, Featured Article, 13 J. CHILD & FAM. STUD. 263 (2004)
Using Tort Law to Secure Patient Dignity, 42 TRIAL MAG. 42 (October, 2004) (co-authored with trial lawyers)
Unauthorized Practice: Teaching Pelvic Examination on Women under Anesthesia, 50 J.AM.MED. WOMEN’S ASS’N 217 (2003)
Fractured Families, Fragile Children: The Sexual Vulnerability of Girls in the Aftermath of Divorce, 14 CHILD & FAM. L. Q. 1 (2002)
Rethinking the Shield of Immunity: Should Ethics Committees Be Accountable for Their Mistakes? 14 HEALTHCARE ETHICS COMMITTEE FORUM 172 (2002)
Hospital Ethics Committees: Are They Evaluating Their Performance? 5 HOSPITAL ETHICS COMMITTEE FORUM 1 (1993) (with Martha Neff-Smith, Donald Phillips, & John C. Fletcher)
SHORTER WORKS
Fairness for All: An Answer to the Special Rapporteur’s Call for a Practical Resolution between Freedom of Religion or Belief and LGBT+ Non-discrimination, TALK ABOUT: LAW AND RELIGION, THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND RELIGION STUDIES, Apr. XX, 2020, hyperlink (with Tanner Bean) (forthcoming)
Policy Spotlight: Visualizing Vulnerability and Capturing the Pandemic’s Human Toll, April 28, 2020, IGPA Task Force on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Moira Zellner, and Ahoura Zandiatashbar)
14 Healthcare Workforce Impact Group Report: Supporting the Healthcare Workforce in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, May 1, 2020, IGPA Task Force on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Stevan Weine, and Jerry Krishnan)
Roadmap for Reopening Illinois: Minimizing the Pandemic’s Human Toll, April 15, 2020, Task Force on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (with insight and drafting of the Director’s Council: Don Fullerton, Brian Gaines, Fred Giertz, Faye Jones, Sage Kim, Kenneth Kriz, David Merriman, Kent Redfield, and Julian Reif)
Visitation Rights, in MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN AMERICA: ISSUES, TRENDS, AND CONTROVERSIES (two volume encyclopedia, ed. Jaimee L. Hartenstein, ABC-CLIO, 2021) (with Elsa Zawedde) (forthcoming)
Letter to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan regarding House Bill 364, prohibiting unauthorized pelvic exams (Apr. 9, 2019)
Symposium: The ‘Intensely Factual’ Question of Physicians’ Admitting Privileges, SCOTUS BLOG (March 8, 2019)
#JustAsk: Stop treating unconscious female patients like cadavers, CHICAGO TRIBUNE (Nov. 29, 2018) (with Anthony Michael Kreis)
Anthony Kennedy Opens New Chapter in American Pluralism, REAL CLEAR RELIGION (July 30, 2018) (with William N. Eskridge, Jr.)
Why Jack Phillips Still Cannot Make Wedding Cakes: Deciding Competing Claims Under Old Laws, BERKLEY FORUM (June 29, 2018) (with Tanner Bean)
Time for One Nation, Not Two, CATO UNBOUND (May 2017)
Not All Government Expenditures Are a Subsidy to Religion, CATO UNBOUND (May 2017)
HB 159: The Hard Questions Facing Georgia on Adoption, GEORGIAPOL (March 23, 2017)
Expect Justice Gorsuch to Protect Religious Minorities Against Government Overreach, BERKLEY FORUM (Apr. 11, 2017)
Thinking Like Millennials, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE (March 15, 2017) (with Mary Crossley and William N. Eskridge, Jr.)
There’s Still Time for Pa. to Pass Protections for LGBT Citizens that Respect the Rights of All, PENN LIVE (Oct.14, 2016)
The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy, POLITICS, RELIGION & IDEOLOGY (Oct. 3, 2016)
Religious Freedom Bill a Mixed Bag for Mississippi, THE CLARION-LEDGER (Apr. 15, 2016)
Laws Should Show ‘Malice Toward None, Charity to All,’ HATTIESBURG AMERICAN (Apr. 6, 2016)
Letter to Mississippi Governor Phillip Bryant regarding House Bill 1523 (Apr. 1, 2016)
Letter to Indiana Senate regarding Senate Bill 344 (Feb. 1, 2016) (drafter and co-signatory)
15 In Kentucky Gay Marriage Case, Everyone Can Win, CONSTITUTION DAILY (Sept. 3, 2015)
Real Religious Liberty Risks and Misplaced Fears, BERKLEY CENTER (July 2, 2015)
Gay Marriage Decision Raises Questions for Religious Groups, N. Y. POST (June 28, 2015)
Gay Marriage Debate Shouldn’t be Winner-Take-All, USA TODAY (June 26, 2015)
Accommodate without Bias, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (June 3, 2015)
Summary of Utah Compromise, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK (2015) ▪ Reproduced in Sarah Zylstra, Revisiting Evangelicals’ Favorite Same-Sex Marriage Laws, CHRISTIANITY TODAY (March 2015)
Protecting Religious Liberty Requires Protections for All, BERKLEY CENTER (Apr. 30, 2015) (with Utah Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams)
After Indiana: Harmonizing Gay Rights and Religious Freedom, LIBRARY OF LAW & LIBERTY (Apr. 21, 2015)
Indiana Law Won’t Erase Protections Against Bias, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES (Apr. 1, 2015) ▪ Featured on TBS eFM Primetime Radio, Seoul, South Korea (Apr. 8, 2015)
From Moynihan to Murphy Brown, contribution to 50th Anniversary of the Moynihan Report on the Black Family, LIBRARY OF LAW & LIBERTY (March 10, 2015)
SB296 Comes in the American Tradition of Live and Let Live, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (March 7, 2015)
Letter to Hon. Wendell Willard, Chair, Georgia House Judiciary Committee regarding House Bill 218, preventing Government Overreach on Religious Expression Act (Feb. 19, 2015) (co-signatory)
Letter to Hon. Brent Steele, Chair, Members of Senate Judiciary Committee, Indiana Statehouse, regarding Religious Freedom Restoration Act (Feb. 3, 2015) (co-signatory)
There’s More Than Money at Stake in the American Dream, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, NEW YORK TIMES, (Jan. 1, 2015)
Non-Offending Parents’ Prerogatives to Make Medical Decisions for Their Children, FAMILY STUDIES BLOG (Oct. 21, 2014)
Assessing the Blowback from Hobby Lobby, LIBRARY OF LAW & LIBERTY (Oct. 17, 2014)
Symposium: The Human Costs of Staying out of the Marriage Debate, SCOTUSBLOG (Oct. 7, 2014)
Parent Coordinators: A Novel Solution for Intractable Custody Battles? FAMILY STUDIES BLOG (June 17, 2014)
A Closing Window, LIBRARY OF LAW & LIBERTY (June 11, 2014)
One Way to End Violence against Women? Married Dads, Post Everything, THE WASHINGTON POST (June 10, 2014) (co-authored with W. Bradford Wilcox)
The Political Process Offers Important Protections for Religious Freedom, Cornerstone Religious Freedom Project, BERKLEY CENTER (June 2, 2014)
16 Raising Arizona: Lessons from the Same-Sex Marriage Movement, LIBRARY OF LAW & LIBERTY (May 29, 2014)
What Lara Leaves Behind, 71 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 810 (2014)
Family Law Still Hasn’t Caught Up with Family Trends, FAMILY STUDIES BLOG (March 19, 2014) ▪ Reprinted on REAL CLEAR POLICY on March 20, 2014
Compromise on Religious Freedom Act? Expand Freedoms for All, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION (Apr. 3, 2014) (co-authored with Anthony Michael Kreis) (moderated by editor Tom Sabulis)
The Questions Not Being Asked in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Cases, THE DAILY CALLER (March 25, 2014)
Letter to Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona (Feb. 25, 2014) (co-drafter and signatory)
Bill Puts Religious Freedom in Jeopardy, HAWAII STAR ADVERTISER (Oct. 28, 2013)
Letter to Governor Neil Abercrombie and Hawaii State Legislature (Oct. 17, 2013) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Minnesota Legislature (May 2, 2013) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Rhode Island General Assembly (Feb. 4, 2013) (co-drafter and signatory)
Protect Religious Liberty in Gay Marriage Legislation, THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER (Jan. 29, 2013) (co- authored with Anthony Kreis)
Protect Employers on Health-care Reform, TULSA WORLD (Jan. 26, 2013)
Letter to Governor Pat Quinn and Illinois General Assembly (Dec.18, 2012)
The Overlooked Benefit of Leaving Perry in Place, SCOTUSBLOG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SYMPOSIUM (Sept.18, 2012) (co-authored with Anthony Kreis)
Religious Exemptions Make a Better Same-Sex Marriage Law for Everyone, NEWS TRIBUNE (Feb. 15, 2012)
But What about the Child? Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, N. Y. TIMES, (Feb. 14, 2012)
Letter to Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey regarding Senate Bill No. 1 (Feb. 14, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Speaker Frank Chopp, Washington State House of Representatives regarding Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6239-ES (Feb. 7, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Chairman Peter A. Hammen, Maryland State House of Representatives regarding Religious Liberty Implications of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage, House Bill 438 (Feb. 7, 2012) ▪ Section 3 of Maryland’s Civil Marriage Protection Act, 2012 Maryland Laws Ch. 2 (H.B. 438), contains the religious liberty accommodations included in Maryland’s same-sex marriage law
Letter to Ryan I. Yamane, Chairman, Hawaii State Legislature House Committee on Health regarding House Bill 2232 Prohibiting Unauthorized Educational Pelvic Examinations (Feb. 2, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
17 Letter to Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland regarding Religious Liberty Implications of Legalizing Same- Sex Marriage, Senate Bill 241 (Jan. 31, 2012)
Letter to Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington regarding Substitute Senate Bill 6239 (Jan. 29, 2012) (co- drafter and signatory) ▪ Revised Code of Washington Annotated § 26.04.010 codifies the resulting religious liberty accommodations contained in Washington’s same-sex marriage law
Letter to Sydney Forrester, Majority Policy Counsel, Washington State Legislature regarding Senate Bill 5793 (Jan. 11, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
A Winner-Takes-All Approach to State Same-Sex Marriage Laws is Self-Defeating, SCOTUSBLOG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SYMPOSIUM (Aug. 29, 2011) (invited response)
Greece Abandons Sharia Law Resolution of Muslim Family Law Disputes, THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY (Aug. 25, 2011) (invited guest blog)
Balancing Marriage Equality with Other Social Goods, SCOTUSBLOG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SYMPOSIUM (Aug. 22, 2011) (invited guest blog)
Protecting Religious Liberty, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, N. Y. TIMES, (June 29, 2011)
Letter to Senator Greg Ball of New York (June 15, 2011) ▪ McKinney’s Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated Domestic Relations Law §10-b codifies the resulting religious liberty accommodations
Letter to Senator Dean Skelos of New York (May 17, 2011)
Letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York (May 17, 2011) (co-drafter and signatory)
R.I. Marriage Law Should Shield Religious Liberty, THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL (Feb. 13, 2011)
Letter to Governor Lincoln Chaffee of Rhode Island (Feb. 7, 2011) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland (Jan. 26, 2011) (co-drafter and signatory)
Is New York Ready for No-Fault Divorce? THE NEW YORK TIMES ROOM FOR DEBATE (June 15, 2010) (invited by the editors)
A Marriage Equality Bill that Respects Religious Objectors, THE WASHINGTON POST (Nov. 2, 2009)
The Flip-Side of Same-Sex Marriage, LOS ANGELES TIMES (May 3, 2009)
Letter to Archdiocese of Washington concerning proposed District of Columbia same-sex marriage legislation (Aug. 4, 2009) (requested by Archdiocese) ▪ District of Columbia Official Code § 46-406(e) (2012) codifies the resulting religious liberty accommodations
Letter to Governor Chet Culver of Iowa (July 9, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr., New York Senate (May 8, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory)
18 Letter to Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire (May 1, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory) ▪ New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated § 457:37 (2012) codifies religious liberty accommodations ultimately included in House Bill 0073, signed into law in June 2009
Letter to Governor John Baldacci of Maine (May 1, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory)
Same-Sex Marriage: How Will it Impact Marriage and Family Therapists and Other Family Professionals, THE THERAPIST (May/June 2009)
Letter to Senator Michael A. McLachlan, Connecticut Senate, Minority Whip, Twenty-Fourth District (Apr. 17, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory) ▪ Religious liberty protections appear in Connecticut Public Act No. 09-13 (2009); CONNECTICUT GENERAL STATUTES ANNOTATED §§ 46b-35a and 46b-35b
Letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding Proposed Rescission of Bush “Conscience Regulation” (Apr. 7, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory) ▪ Featured in Michelle Boorstein, THE WASHINGTON POST GOD IN GOVERNMENT BLOG (Apr. 2009)
NH’s Same-Sex Marriage Bill is Needlessly Discriminatory, NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION LEADER (May 6, 2009)
Will Law Demand We Support Gay Marriage? HARTFORD COURANT (March 6, 2009)
Health Care Regulation: The Year in Review, SEARLE CENTER, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW (June 15, 2007) (co-authored with Professor David Hyman, published on the Searle Center’s website)
Don’t Let Divorce off The Hook, N. Y. TIMES (Oct. 1, 2006)
Medicare: Where’s the Common Sense? A Review of MEDICARE MEETS MEPHISTOPHELES by David A. Hyman (2006), 34(4) J.L.MED. & ETHICS 821 (2006) (book review, co-authored with Washington and Lee University School of Law student Erin Willoughby and University of Maryland School of Law graduate David Blazina)
A Review of Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse Cases (3d ed., Sage Publications 2004) by the American Prosecutors Research Institute’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, 14(1) J. CHILD AND FAM. STUD. 155 (2005) (book review, co-authored with University of South Carolina Professor Pamela Melton)
Physician Recruiting under the Microscope, 59(3) J. AM. MED. WOMEN’S ASS’N 238 (2004)
Two Bites at the Apple: Holding Physician Practices Directly Liable for Medical Malpractice, 59(2) J. AM. MED. WOMEN’S ASS’N 164 (2004) (co-author)
When Seniors Face Closed Doors: Are Advance Beneficiary Notices the Answer? 59(1) J. AM. MED. WOMEN’S ASS’N 84 (2004)
From Swords to Shield: The Essential Partnership of Physicians and Attorneys, 59(2) J. AM. MED. WOMEN’S ASS’N 12 (2004)
Introduction to Volume on Mental Health Law, 14 WASH. U. J.L. & POL’Y 315 (2003)
Given Medical Practices, It May be Time to Legislate Respect, UTAH STANDARD-EXAMINER (Aug. 25, 2003)
A Review of FROM PARTNERS TO PARENTS: THE SECOND REVOLUTION IN FAMILY LAW (Columbia University Press 2000) by June Carbone, 35(4) FAM. L. Q. 833 (2002) (book review)
19 Private Contracting in Medicare: The Continuing Struggle to Escape the Confines of the Medicare Program, 5(5) FRAUD & ABUSE REP. 1 (2002)
Add a Little Private Money: How and When Medicare Patients May Buy Services with Their Own Funds Still Sparks a Lot of Debate, 24(24) LEGAL TIMES 18 (June 2001)
Providers and Counsel: Essential Partners, CAROLINA HEALTHCARE BUSINESS 10 (July/Aug. 2001)
Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Errors: New Legal Risk? CAROLINA HEALTHCARE BUSINESS 7 (March/Apr. 2001)
Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Errors: Will Litigation Hasten Change? 3(12) HEALTH CARE FRAUD & ABUSE NEWSL. 3 (2001)
Hospital Ethics Committees: Good News and Bad, 96(10) J. S.C. MED. ASS’N 431 (Oct. 2000)
Third Party Recovery by HMOs and Healthcare Facilities for the Care of Patients: Fraud or Contractual Rights? 3(3) HEALTH CARE FRAUD & ABUSE NEWSL. 1 (Apr. 2000)
Leveling the Playing Field? The Nation’s First Managed Care Liability Law, 31(1) J. HEALTH & HOSPITAL L.1 (1998) (co-author)
Texas’ New Managed Care Liability Law, 6(2) THE ADVOCATE 77 (1997) (co-author)
CONSULTATION WITH THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND LAWMAKERS
February 2019 President Pro Tem Brent Hill, Idaho State Senate Convened discussions of Religious Freedom LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground in Idaho
December 2019 U.S. Representative Chris Stewart Assisted with the drafting of Representative Stewart’s FAIRNESS FOR ALL bill, H.R.5331, introduced in December 2019, including provisions regulating foster care and adoption agencies
November 2019 Utah Governor Gary Herbert and General Counsel Ron Gordon Assisted with revisions to R156 concerning Commerce, Occupational and Professional Licensing banning gay conversion therapy in Utah, including extensive discussions with the General Counsel and stakeholders about revisions
November 2019 Ohio State Representative Brent Hillyer Joined in discussions with Ohio state legislators on topic of Fairness for All for the state of Ohio
TESTIMONY BEFORE LEGISLATIVE BODIES
January 23, 2020 Wisconsin Senate Committee on Government Operations, Technology, and Consumer Protection
20 Written testimony regarding Senate Bill 635 Consent for pelvic examinations by medical students on an anesthetized or unconscious patient
March 11, 2019 New York Assembly Health and Senate Health Committees Written testimony regarding Senate Bill 6325 prohibiting unauthorized pelvic exams
March 11, 2019 Oklahoma State Legislature Written testimony regarding Senate Bill 621 prohibiting unauthorized pelvic exams
March 11, 2019 Washington State Senate Written testimony regarding Senate Bill 5282 prohibiting unauthorized pelvic exams
February 28, 2019 Maryland General Assembly Written testimony regarding House Bill 364 prohibiting unauthorized pelvic exams ▪ Cited in BALTIMORE SUN (May 14, 2019)
February 27, 2019 Connecticut Joint Public Health Committee Written testimony regarding Senate Bill 16 prohibiting unauthorized pelvic exams
February 25, 2019 Utah State Senate Written testimony regarding Senate Bill 188 prohibiting unauthorized pelvic exams. ▪ The legislation was approved unanimously by the Senate and House and signed by the governor. ▪ Cited in “Society and the State” Podcast (May 24, 2019)
May 11, 2016 Ohio House of Representatives Joined Ohio State Representative Bill Hayes in discussing House Bill 537
January 27, 2016 Indiana Senate Committee on Rules & Legislative Procedure Invited by Indiana Senator Travis Holdman to testify in support of Senate Bill 344 which sought to balance LGBT non-discrimination protections with religious liberty protections
January 20, 2016 Indiana Senate Caucus Invited by Indiana Senate President Pro Tem David Long to discuss non-discrimination and religious liberty protections in Senate Bill 100 with legislators
March 11, 2015 Utah House Floor Debate Assisted Bill Sponsors to Field Questions on Senate Bill 297
March 11, 2015 Utah House Judiciary Committee Testified on Senate Bill 297
March 10, 2015 Utah House Judiciary Committee Testified on Senate Bill 296, known as the Utah Compromise
March 6, 2015 Utah Senate Floor Debate Assisted Bill Sponsors to Field Questions on Senate Bill 297
March 6, 2015 Utah Senate Business and Labor Committee Testified on Senate Bill 297
March 5, 2015 Utah Senate Business and Labor Committee
21 Testified on Senate Bill 296, known as the Utah Compromise ▪ Cited in ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (March 6), PBS (March 6), ABC NEWS (March 6), BURLESON STAR (March 6), ARIZONA DAILY STAR (March 6), DESERET NEWS (March 6)
March 5, 2015 Utah House Caucus Invited remarks on the proposed Utah Compromise
March 1, 2015 Utah Senate Caucus Invited remarks on the proposed Utah Compromise
October 28, 2013 Hawaii Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor Written Testimony regarding Senate Bill 1
February 10, 2012 Maryland State House Judiciary and Government Operations Committees Testified on Maryland House Bill 438 to recognize same-sex marriage ▪ Section 3 of Maryland’s Civil Marriage Protection Act, 2012 Maryland Laws Ch. 2 (H.B. 438), contains the religious liberty protections included in Maryland’s same- sex marriage law
February 25, 2011 Maryland State House Judiciary Committee Testified on Maryland House Bill 175 to recognize same-sex marriage
February 8, 2011 Maryland State Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Testified on Maryland Senate Bill 116 to recognize same-sex marriage
November 2, 2009 Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary Committee Testified on D.C. Council Bill 18-482 to recognize same-sex marriage ▪ D.C. CODE § 46-406(e) (2012) contains religious liberty protections
January 22, 2007 Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions, Virginia House of Delegates Testified on House Bill 2969 to Prohibit Unauthorized Pelvic Exams ▪ VA. CODE § 54.1-2959 (2012) prohibiting unauthorized exams became effective on July 1, 2007
June 10, 2003 Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, Joint Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy Testified on “Unauthorized Practice: The Use of Anesthetized and Deceased Patients, Without Consent, to Train Medical Professionals” ▪ On June 12, 2003, the Association of American Medical Colleges reversed its prior policy position, finding unauthorized exams to be “unethical and unacceptable”
May 15, 2003 South Carolina House of Representatives, House Special Laws Subcommittee Testified on the Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Protection Act
LEGISLATIVE BRIEFINGS
August 8, 2017 Texas State House, Austin, Texas. Briefing of Select Members on lack of empirical evidence for pending “bathroom bill” (by invitation of stakeholder and legislative partners)
22 May 17, 2016 Pennsylvania State House, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Legislative Meetings (by invitation of legislative partners)
April 20, 2017 Fairness for All Summit, Canton, Ohio. Briefing of Select Members of Ohio Legislature (by invitation of legislative partner)
April 4-5, 2017 Idaho State House, Boise, Idaho. Briefing of Select Members of minority and majority parties (by invitation of party leaders)
February 28, 2017 Wyoming State House, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Fairness for All Summit. Briefing of Select Members of Wyoming Legislature (by invitation of party leaders)
January 16, 2017 Fairness for All Summit, Columbus, Ohio. Briefing of Select Members of Ohio Legislature (by invitation of legislative partner)
November 15, 2016 Fairness for All Summit, Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, Ohio. Briefing of Select Members of Ohio Legislature (by invitation of legislative partner)
November 6, 2016 Fairness for All Summit, Atlanta, Georgia. Briefing with Select Members of the Georgia Legislature
November 2, 2016 Idaho State House, Boise, Idaho. Briefing of Select Members of Idaho Senate and House of Representatives
November 1, 2016 Pennsylvania State House, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Briefing of Select Members of Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate (by invitation of legislative partner)
October 6, 2016 Louisiana Fairness for All Summit Planning meeting. Briefing of Louisiana Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger
August 28, 2016 Pennsylvania State House, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Conducted three Fairness for All Roundtables (co-convened with bill sponsor and legislative partner)
July 14-15, 2016 Alaska State House, Juneau, Alaska & Fairness for All Summit, Anchorage, Alaska. Briefing of Select Members of Alaska Legislature
May 11-12, 2016 Ohio House of Representatives, Columbus, Ohio. Briefing of Select Members of Ohio Legislature (by invitation of legislative partner)
March 18, 2016 Idaho State House, Boise, Idaho. Briefing of Select Members of Idaho Senate and House of Representatives (at invitation of Senate Majority Leader)
March 16, 2016 Idaho State House, Boise, Idaho. Dinner Briefing of Select Members of Idaho Senate and House of Representatives (by invitation of Senate Majority Leader)
December 10, 2015 National Conference of State Legislatures, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Co- Presented “When Religious Freedom and Anti-discrimination Collide” with Utah Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams and Indiana Senate President Pro Tem David Long (lunchtime plenary)
August 14-15, 2015 Idaho Summit, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Co-Presented with Utah Senate Majority Whip J. Stuart Adams to Idaho legislators on the “Utah Compromise”
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AMICUS CURIAE BRIEFS
February 5, 2016 Brief of Religious Liberty Scholars In Support of Petitioners, petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States, Stormans, Inc., doing business as Ralph’s Thriftway, Rhonda Mesler, and Margo Thelen, Petitioners, v. John Wiesman, Secretary of the Washington State Department of Health, et al., Respondents (co- signatory)
November 20, 2012 Brief of Constitutional Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellees in Ralph’s Thriftway v. Mary Selecky and Judith Billings, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (co-signatory)
EMPIRICAL WORK
Spring 2020 Proceedings in Times of COVID-19 – a Comparative Overview Family international study with Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Founding Head, The Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Spring 2020 Pandemic Stress Indicator Study with Professor Brian Gaines, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Political Science
PAPERS PRESENTED
December 17, 2019 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, presented “Evolving Notions of Parentage: Relational Parenting Rights”
December 15, 2019 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, presented “Translational Law: From Scholarship to Public Engagement-Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground as a Case Study”
December 11, 2019 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Presented “Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground”
December 9, 2019 International Society of Family Law Regional Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. Panel Speaker presented, “Religion, Culture, Custom and Children’s Interests: When Does Faith Imperil Children- Reflections on the US’ Family Law Isolationism”
November 6, 2019 Emory University Medical School Grand Rounds, Atlanta, Georgia. Presented “Rethinking Informed Consent in Medical Education – The Work on Teaching Intimate Exams Which May Also Be Helpful”
October 26, 2019 American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Co-presented “Lessons from Jesse Gelsinger’s Trial and Death” with Mr. Paul Gelsinger
October 21, 2019 Illinois Family Support Enforcement Association Conference, Champaign, Illinois. Presented “Evolving Notions of Parentage: Implications for Safety and Support” (invited keynote)
24 October 18, 2019 College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, The Institute of Bill of Rights, Williamsburg, Virginia. Dialogue on Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and Common Ground co-sponsored by Public Discourse Initiative, Equality Alliance, and American Constitution Society (with Yale law professor William N. Eskridge, Jr.)
October 17, 2019 Tolerance Means Dialogue, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Presented “Religious Liberty & the Culture War Over LGBT Rights: Can University Students Make a Difference?” (with philosopher John Corvino, Dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College and Chris Lund, School of Law moderating, and student winners of the Tolerance Scholarship)
September 30, 2019 Wilson College, Common Hour “Speaking Boldly” Series, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Presented “Against Culture War”
August 22, 2019 Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Illinois. Co-convened the Inclusive Midwest Initiative: Respectfully Sharing the Public Square (with Utah Senate President Stuart Adams and Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman) and presented “The Map of the Midwest: Level-Setting” and spoke as panelist on panel entitled “The Sticky Problem of Public Accommodations”
August 12, 2019 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Presented “El Futuro Sos Vos”
August 12, 2019 Universidad Abierta Interamericana Law School, Ciudad de Buenos Aires Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Presented “Evolving Notions of Parentage”
August 12, 2019 Universidad Abierta Interamericana Law School, Ciudad de Buenos Aires Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Presented “Theories of Relational Parentage”
August 8, 2019 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Presented Faculty Workshop on “Determination of Child Custody”
August 8, 2019 Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Presented “Interdisciplinary Perspectives About the Care and Good Treatment of Children” (invited keynote)
August 6, 2019 Sociedade Barsiliera de Psicanlise de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Presented “Direitos LGBT e Religosos—Em busca do dialogo” ▪ Synopsized in Julia Zaremba, We need to balance LGBT and religious rights, says American lawyer, FOLHA DE S.PAULO (Dec. 9, 2019) (largest circulation paper in Brazil)
August 5, 2019 Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Presented “Civil Rights Complementarity/Liberdade e Direitos LGBTI” (invited keynote)
June 20, 2019 Tolerance Means Dialogue, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Presented “Religious Liberty & the Culture War Over LGBT Rights: Can University Students Make a Difference?” (with Shannon Minter, Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and student winners of the Tolerance Scholarship) ▪ Featured on Top of Mind, The Julie Rose Show, Talking our Way to Common Ground Between Religious Freedom and LGBT Rights (June 20, 2019)
25 June 19, 2019 Tanenbaum Religious Diversity Leadership Summit, New York, New York. Presented “Civil Rights Complementarity” June 15, 2019 Harry Krause Emerging Family Law Scholars Workshop, Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago, Illinois. Organizer and commentator on papers by Emerging Scholars
June 13-14, 2019 United Nation’s Committee on CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) and North American Regional Conference of the International Society for Family Law, conference on Family As The Crucible Of Culture And Society: Inequality, Vulnerability, And Justice Within the Family, Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago, Illinois. Panelist on Group Discussion of Public Engagement: Using LGBT Rights and Family Vulnerability as a case study; presented “How Books Credential Big Ideas: Discussion of RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LGBT RIGHTS, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMON GROUND by William Eskridge, Jr. and Robin Fretwell Wilson (eds.)”
June 6-7, 2019 The American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Health Law Professors Conference, Loyola University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois. Presented “From Culture War to Common Ground: Exploring Practical Approaches to Balancing Conscience and Access” (with University of Chicago Medical School professor Debra Stulberg and Santa Clara University School of Law professor Michelle Oberman)
May 29, 2019 Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, Newseum, Washington, D.C. Presented on Panel “Rise Up: LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom,” a discussion of RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LGBT RIGHTS AND THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMON GROUND
May 13-15, 2019 University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Co-taught course on “An American Family Law Perspective,” including lectures on “Marriage Versus Non-Marriage,” “Property Versus Support,” and “Parents Versus Partners” ▪ Cited in IL MATTOON DI PADOVA (May 15, 2019)
May 10, 2019 International Society of Family Law Executive Council, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Presented “Child Welfare and Faith Healing Across and Within National Boundaries”
May 7, 2019 Ethox and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Oxford, England. Presented “Rethinking Consent in Medical Education”
May 1, 2019 University of Birmingham, MLR Seminar on Religious Freedom and Sexual Orientation Discrimination: Can the Law Enforce Mere Civility? Birmingham, United Kingdom. Presented “SOGI 2.0: Recreating the Public Square”
April 15, 2019 Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China. Presented “Emerging Issues on Informed Consent”
April 15, 2019 Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China. Participated in academic exchange with Vice Dean and Students about the University of Illinois College of Law International Exchange Program
April 13, 2019 International Forum on Social Progress and Development in Medical Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China. Presented “The Promise of Informed Consent” (invited keynote address)
26 April 11, 2019 Iowa Religious Freedom Day, Des Moines, Iowa. Presented “Calling a Truce in the Culture War” (invited keynote address)
April 5, 2019 Medicalization of Poverty Roundtable, Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago Illinois. Co-convener with former Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health Marissa Levine and Discussant.
April 4, 2019 Medicalization of Poverty Roundtable Preview, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois. Panel Discussion
March 27, 2019 Tolerance Means Dialogue, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Presented “Religious Liberty & the Culture War Over LGBT Rights: Can University Students Make a Difference?” (with Shannon Minter, Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, and Jon Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation moderating; and student winners of the Tolerance Scholarship)
March 26, 2019 Case Western Reserve University Book Discussion, Cleveland, Ohio. Panelist on “The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law”
March 23, 2019 National Advocates for Pregnant Women Conference on Childbirth and the Law, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. Panel presenter
March 21, 2019 Yale Law School Book Discussion, New Haven, Connecticut. Discussed “Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Prospects for Common Ground” (with William N. Eskridge, Jr.)
March 20, 2019 Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Washington, D.C. Book Discussion of THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LAW (with former Ambassador David Saperstein and Berkley Center Scholar Katherine Marshall), presented “When Does Protecting Faith Imperil Children”
March 13, 2019 University of Illinois College of Law Lecture, Champaign Urbana, Illinois. Panelist on Panel entitled “What? They Can Do That Without My Consent?”
March 4, 2019 European Academy of Religion Annual Conference 2019, Bologna, Italy. Presenter.
February 26, 2019 University of Illinois College of Law Book Discussion, Champaign Urbana, Illinois. Lunch discussion of THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LAW with Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton and select students
February 22, 2019 Concordia Law School Interfaith & LGBT Summit on Religious Liberty and Nondiscrimination Solutions, Boise, Idaho. Presented “Religious and LGBT Discrimination in Our Society: How Best to Root it Out”
February 21, 2019 University of Idaho College of Law, Boise, Idaho. Book Discussion of RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LGBT RIGHTS AND THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMON GROUND (with Idaho Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, Idaho Senate Minority Leader Grant Burgoyne, and Idaho Representative John McCrostie)
February 7, 2019 Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, Federalist Society Chapter, Salt Lake City, Utah. Presented “Debating Abortion Laws”
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February 4, 2019 2019 National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting & Advocacy Day, Washington, D.C. Presented “Navigating Difficult Conversations on Campus”
January 22, 2019 Religious Voices, Human Dignity and the Making of Modern Human Rights, Rome, Italy. Presented “The Changing Landscape of Religious Freedom Protection”
January 17, 2019 Brigham Young University Wheatley Institute, Provo, Utah. Presented “Redefining Parentage: Potential Harms for Children” (invited address)
December 11, 2018 Universidad Austral Sede Buenos Aires, Centro Argentino De Ingenieros, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Presented “What Makes a Person a (Non-Biological, Non-Adoptive) Parent”
December 4, 2018 Punta Del Este Conference on Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere, Punta del Este, Uruguay, South America. Co-Chair of Panel Entitled “Strategies for Extending the Influence of the Declaration” and part of drafting group and signatory
November 15, 2018 Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase Law School, Federalist Society chapter, Newport, Kentucky. Presented “Religion and Gay Rights: Do They Have to Be at Odds?”
November 9, 2018 National Council on Family Relations Conference, San Diego, California. Discussant on Panel about Self-Reported IPV Among Divorcing Mothers: When is it Documented in Divorce Cases and When Does It Matter?
October 22, 2018 First Amendment Center & Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, Washington, D.C. Presented “Fairness for All as the Cornerstone of a Truce in the Culture War” (with Utah Senate Majority Whip J. Stuart Adams)
October 18, 2018 Tolerance Means Dialogue, University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Presented “Religion and Gay Rights: Do They Have to be at Odds? And Can University Students Make a Difference?" (with Yale Law professor William N. Eskridge, Jr.; University of Alabama School of Law Dean Daiquiri Steele moderating; and winners of Tolerance Scholarship)
October 17, 2018 University of Alabama School of Law, Faculty Workshop, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Presented “Dialogue Across Divides: Envisioning A Role for Faculty in Charting Common Ground” (with William N. Eskridge, Jr., Yale Law School)
October 11, 2018 5th Annual Sacramento Court Clergy Conference, Roseville, California. Panel on “Building Bridges in Polarizing Times” (with Dr.s John Jackson and John Corvino)
October 11, 2018 5th Annual Sacramento Court Clergy Conference, Roseville, California. Break-out discussion on “Building Bridges in Polarizing Times” (with Dr. John Jackson)
September 17, 2018 Constitution Day Tolerance Means Dialogue, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. Presented "Religious Liberty & the Culture War Over LGBT Rights: Can University Students Make a Difference?" (with Shannon Minter, Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; Gretchen Winter, Executive Director of the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, University
28 of Illinois Gies College of Business, moderating; and student winners of the Tolerance Scholarship)
August 4, 2018 Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, England. Presented “The Role of Dignity in Taking Children Out of the Culture Wars”
July 23-25, 2018 University of Minnesota School of Law, 2018 Women in Law Teaching Works-In- Progress Workshop, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Senior faculty and co-convener
July 19, 2018 The Cato Institute, Solomon’s Decree: Conflicts in Adoption and Child Placement Policy Conference, Washington, D.C. Presented “Taking Children Out of the Culture War by Rethinking the Funding of Placement Services” (co-convener with Cato resident scholar Walter Olson as part of gift-funded adoption initiative) ▪ Featured in Gillian Friedman, Religious liberty and LGBT rights: Solutions elusive in adoption conflict, DESERET NEWS (July 30, 2018), Brian Miller, How Vouchers Can End The Culture War Over Adoption, Forbes (July 30, 2018); Naomi Schaefer Riley, For a Charity Nowadays, Everything’s Political, WALL STREET JOURNAL (August 3, 2018)
June 21, 2018 National Council for Adoption, National Adoption Conference, College Park, Maryland. Presented “Honoring Family and Birth Mother Adoption Choices: Federal Policy Innovations to Protect Agency Diversity” (with Stanley Carlson-Theis)
June 9, 2018 Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2018 Health Law Professors Conference, Cleveland, Ohio. Presented “The Medicalization of Poverty” (panel convener)
June 8, 2018 American Constitution Society National Convention, Washington, D.C. Panelist on Panel “Increasing Tension Between Religious Freedom and Anti-Discrimination Laws”
June 2, 2018 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Presented “Human Dignity for Everyone, Everywhere: From Tensions and Conflicts to Reconciliation”
May 22-25, 2018 University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Presented Lectures on U.S. Family Law (with Professor Federica Giardini)
May 4, 2018 International Society of Family Law Executive Council, Strasbourg, France. Symposium on The Influence of International Human Rights Bodies on the Evolution of Domestic Family Law. Presented “Intentional and Unintentional Parenthood: Perspectives from the United States”
April 27, 2018 National Council on Family Relations—Illinois Council, Normal, Illinois. Presented “The Medicalization of Poverty: How Opening Healthcare Access to All Families Builds Resilience and Stops Disadvantaging Non-Traditional Families”
April 25, 2018 Tolerance Means Dialogue, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa. Presented “Religious Liberty or Unjust Discrimination? How Students Can Make a Difference in the Culture Wars” (with John Corvino, Wayne State University—Detroit; Sergio Perez, Loras College moderating; and winners of Tolerance Scholarship)
April 4, 2018 Tolerance Means Dialogue, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Presented “Religious Liberty and the Culture War Over LGBT Rights: Can University Students Make a Difference?” (with Shannon Minter, Legal Director of the National
29 Center for Lesbian Rights; Thomas Berg, St. Thomas University School of Law, moderating; and winners of Tolerance Scholarship)
March 25, 2018 Tolerance Means Dialogue, University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. “Religion and Gay Rights: Do They Have to be at Odds?” (with William N. Eskridge, Jr., Yale Law School, and Maxine Eichner, University of North Carolina School of Law, and winners of Tolerance Scholarship, hosted by the American Constitution Society Chapel Hill Chapter)
March 20, 2018 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus campus, Jerusalem, Israel. Conference participant, conference devoted to examining THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LAW: A View from the Holy Land
March 15, 2018 Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. Discussant, Tasting the Intellectual Cuisine of THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LIFE: Insights from Israel
March 14, 2018 Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel. Presented “Intentional and Unintentional Parenthood: Perspectives from the United States”
February 15-17, 2018 J. Reuben Clark Law Society Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah. Panel on Fairness for All
November 17, 2017 St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fall Symposium on Academic Freedom in Catholic Universities: Where the Church Does its Thinking. Presented “When Academic Freedom and Religious Freedom Collide”
November 16, 2017 The King’s College, New York, New York. Guest lectured in Constitutional Law seminar on “The Limits of Accommodation”
November 2-3, 2017 Medicalization of Poverty Symposium Scholars Day Workshop, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois (co-convener). Presented “Moving Beyond Marriage: Health Care and the Social Safety Net for Families”
October 20, 2017 Connecticut Law Review 2017 Symposium on Religious Freedom Restoration Act’s 25th Anniversary, Hartford, Connecticut. Panel on State RFRA Laws: Liberty Legislation & Litigation. Presented “Religious Freedom and LGBT Nondiscrimination: RFRA’s Inability to Prevent Collisions”
October 13, 2017 J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Family and Religion Symposium. Presented “Making Good on The Promise of a Permanent Home: Religious Adoption Agencies and Child Welfare”
September 28, 2017 Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. First Amendment Conference. Presented “Religious Rights or Unlawful Discrimination? Finding Solutions to Needless Collisions”
September 19, 2017 Dole Institute and the University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Constitution Day Speaker. Presented “Religious Rights or Unlawful Discrimination? Finding Solutions to Needless Collisions” (university wide address)
September 19, 2017 University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Bathrooms and Bakers: How Sharing the Public Square is the Key to a Truce in the Culture Wars”
30 July 25-29, 2017 International Society of Family Law World Congress on Family Law and Family Realities, Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Executive Council Meeting. Presented “Increasing the Visibility of Scholarship”
July 19-20, 2017 International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland. Presented “Vulnerable Children and the Family: Legislatures, Not Judges, Must Provide Needed Safeguards”
July 14, 2017 Charles University, International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic. Presented “Defining Gender Identity in the Law: Evaluating the Scientific Basis for Legislative Definitions”
June 15-16, 2017 Notre Dame Law School—Chicago campus, Chicago, Illinois. Annual Law and Religion Roundtable. Presented “Evaluating Hurdles to Enacting LGBT Nondiscrimination Laws”
April 29, 2017 Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Henry Institute's Ninth Biennial Symposium on Religion and Public Life, Panel on “Fairness for All.” Presented “Collisions or Solutions? The Choice Between Balanced Laws & The Status Quo”
April 21-22, 2017 Roundtable on Law, Religion, and Conscience Clauses, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (conversation starter)
April 20, 2017 Malone University, World View Forum, Canton, Ohio. Presented “Moving the Conversation Forward: The Legal Rights of the LGBTQ and Religious Communities” (with Shannon Minter, Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights)
April 5- 6, 2017 Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. 2017 Religious Liberty Conference. Presented “Religious Exemptions and Equality: Why Fairness for All is The Better Way”
April 4, 2017 Tolerance Means Dialogue, Idaho State Capitol Building, Boise, Idaho. Dialogue on “Religion and Child Welfare: Do They Have to Be at Odds?” (with Idaho Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis; professor Shaakirrah Sanders, University of Idaho College of Law; Representative John McCrostie, Idaho House of Representatives, moderating; and student winners of Tolerance Scholarship)
April 3, 2017 Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. Student groups panel on “Religious Protections and State Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Laws” (with Yale professor William N. Eskridge, Jr.)
March 16, 2017 Tolerance Means Dialogue, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dialogue on “Religion and Gay Marriage; Do They Have to be at Odds?” (with Yale professor William N. Eskridge, Jr.; professor Mary Crossley, University of Pittsburgh Law School, moderating; and student winners of Tolerance Scholarship)
February 15, 2017 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois. Panel on Gay Rights and Religious Liberty: From Culture War to Compromise (with professor Steven Macias, Southern Illinois Law School)
January 26, 2017 University of California Irvine School of Law, Irvine, California. Participant in Abortion Laws: A Debate with Professor Michele Goodwin
31 January 13-14, 2017 Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. Co-hosted meeting on Faith, Sexuality and the Meaning of Freedom with Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr., the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. Presented “Bakers and Bathrooms: How Sharing the Public Square is the Key to Ending the Culture War”
November 16, 2016 Yale Law School, Debating Law & Religion Series, New Haven, Connecticut. Presented “Religious Liberty & LGBT Equality: Accommodation or Discrimination” (with Yale professor Doug NeJaime)
November 6-8, 2016 Emory University Conference on Dignity, Equality & Religious Freedom, Atlanta, Georgia. Presented “Fairness for All: A Model for Peaceful Coexistence Between the LGBT and Faith Communities”
October 31, 2016 Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Fairness for All Forum. Co- presented with Senator J. Stuart Adams on “Fairness for All: Exploring A Balanced Approach for Pennsylvania”
October 25, 2016 Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana. Faculty workshop. Presented “Bathrooms and Bakers: How Sharing the Public Square is the Key to a Truce in the Culture Wars”
October 3, 2016 University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, Columbia, Missouri. Student group discussion of gender identity, sexual orientation, and LGBT nondiscrimination laws. Presented “Bathrooms and Bakers: Removing Roadblocks to LGBT Nondiscrimination Laws”
September 15, 2016 Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. Presented Constitution Day Address, “Can the Constitution Protect Both LGBT Rights and Religious Liberty?” (university wide address)
June 15, 2016 International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family, Arequipa, Peru. Presented “Divorcing Marriage and the State: The Ill-Considered Consequences of ‘Getting the Government Out of the Marriage Business’”
June 8-10, 2016 United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Meeting on Freedom of Religion and Belief. Presented “Navigating Gay Rights and Religious Liberty: Lessons from the ‘Utah Compromise’” (invited presentation)
May 19 – 27, 2016 International Society of Family Law North American Conference, Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming. Presented “Divorcing Marriage and the State: The Ill- Considered Consequences of ‘Getting the Government Out of the Marriage Business’”
May 5, 2016 Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, Virginia. Program in Biomedical & Research Ethics, “Conversations in Ethics.” Presented “Faith-Based Exemptions to Medical Neglect Law and Overcoming Parental Hesitancy to Having Children Vaccinated”
April 22, 2016 Villanova Law School, McCullen Symposium, Villanova, Pennsylvania. Panelist on “Free Exercise, Catholic Adoption Agencies, and State Nondiscrimination Mandates: Liberty, Equality and Compromise”
April 15, 2016 Notre Dame University, London, England. International Society of Family Law Executive Council Colloquium and Meeting. Presented “US State Efforts to Unwind Civil and Religious Marriage: Failures for Adults and Children”
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March 31, 2016 Northwestern University School of Law, Searle Center, Chicago, Illinois. Roundtable discussion of EXPENSIVE BY DESIGN: WHY AMERICAN HEALTH CARE COSTS TOO MUCH AND DELIVERS TOO LITTLE, by Charles Silver & David A. Hyman
March 23-25, 2016 Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Roundtable “Gathering of Leaders – A Gathering of Better Angels”
March 21, 2016 Brigham Young University, School of Family Life, Provo, Utah. Presented “Religious Objections After Same-Sex Marriage: The Utah Compromise as a More Civil Solution”
March 18, 2016 Concordia Law School, Boise, Idaho. Religious Freedom Conference. Panel Speaker with Idaho State Senators Bart Davis and Curt McKenzie
March 10, 2016 Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Squaring Faith and Sexuality in Religious Institutions and the Unique Challenge of Sports”
February 16, 2016 St. John’s University School of Law, Jamaica, New York. Colloquium on Law and Religion. Presented “Divorcing Marriage and the State: The Ill-Considered Consequences of ‘Getting the Government Out of the Marriage Business’”
February 1, 2016 Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana. Panel co-hosted by Labor and Employment Law Society, OUTLaw, the LGBT Project, the Christian Legal Society, and Federalist Society on The Indiana Nondiscrimination Bill and the Utah Compromise: Are They Striking the Right Balance Between Religious Freedom and LGBT Protections?
January 28, 2016 Council for Christian Colleges & Universities’ Presidents Conference, Washington, D.C. Co-presented with Utah Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams on “Legislative and Public Relations Responses to the Religious Freedom Challenges Ahead”
January 22, 2016 Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Divorcing Marriage and the State: The Ill-Considered Consequences of ‘Getting the Government Out of the Marriage Business’”
January 21, 2016 The University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Divorcing Marriage and the State: The Ill-Considered Consequences of ‘Getting the Government Out of the Marriage Business’”
January 7, 2016 Law and Religion Section, 2016 AALS Annual Meeting, New York City, New York. Panel discussion of Religious Reactions to Same-Sex Marriage; presented “Lessons for Compromise from Utah”
November 13, 2015 Schiff Harden, LLP, Chicago, Illinois. Organizer and discussant, Inaugural Conversation on the Family: Bringing Together the Judiciary, Legislators, Practicing Bar, and Family Law Scholars on When Economic Struggles Constrain Family Choices
November 12, 2015 Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana. Amnesty International student chapter discussion panel on Constitutionality of Recently Enacted Indiana RFRA
November 6, 2015 University of Minnesota School of Law, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Law and Inequality Symposium, co-sponsored by the Minnesota Vikings and Law and Inequality: A Journal
33 of Theory and Practice. Presented “Squaring Faith and Sexuality in Religious Institutions: The Unique Challenge of Sports”
October 29, 2015 University of Idaho College of Law, Boise, Idaho. Presented “Kim Davis and Religious Dissenters to Obergefell: In Search of More Civil Solutions”
October 28, 2015 Family Policy Roundtable, Salt Lake City, Utah. Co-Presented with Utah Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams on “Kim Davis and Religious Dissenters to Obergefell: In Search of More Civil Solutions”
October 17, 2015 2015-2016 Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah. Panelist on “Hobby Lobby and Beyond”
October 7, 2015 National Constitution Center and the John Templeton Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Religious Freedom Meeting. Discussant of “Utah Compromise”
September 30, 2015 University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky. OUTLaw discussion of Kim Davis and Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage. Co-Presented with Utah Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams on “Kim Davis and Religious Dissenters to Obergefell: In Search of More Civil Solutions”
September 22, 2015 Villanova University School of Law, Workshop Series, Villanova, Pennsylvania. Presented “Divorcing Marriage and the State: Unintended Consequences of Unwinding Civil and Religious Marriage”
September 21, 2015 National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Symposium on American Faith: The Origin and Meaning of Religious Liberty. Panelist on “The Limits of Religious Liberty in a Democratic Society”
September 11, 2015 University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois. Law Review Symposium on Law, Religion and the Family Unit (faculty convener). Presented “‘Getting the Government Out of the Marriage Business’”
August 28, 2015 University of Illinois Political Science Department Lunch Series, Champaign, Illinois. Presented “Politics of Accommodation and the Utah Compromise”
July 7, 2015 International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 2015 Annual Religious Freedom Review. Panel discussion of the Utah Compromise
June 25, 2015 Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Annual Law and Religion Roundtable. Presented “Bypassing Religious Objectors like Kim Davis”
June 15, 2015 University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. Family Law Conference. Presented “When Parents Invite Partners into their Children’s Lives: Consent to Co-Parenting or Overriding the Judgment of Legal Parents?” (keynote address)
June 9, 2015 Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono, Israel. International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family Symposium. Presented "Religious Conscience and Access"
June 5, 2015 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Presented “The Utah Compromise as the Way Forward for Protecting Religious Liberty”
34 May 8, 2015 Harvard Law School, Petrie Flom Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conference on Law, Religion, and American Health Care. Presented “Unpacking the Relationship between Religious Conscience and Access: Bounded Measures, Choke Points, and Gateways”
May 7, 2015 The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, D.C. Symposium on Religious Exercise and the Supreme Court: Hosanna-Tabor, Hobby Lobby, Holt, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Summarized and defended the “Utah Compromise”
April 29, 2015 Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Guest Lectured on “Who Should Count as a Parent? Risks to Children in Non-Traditional Families”
April 24, 2015 Cour de Cassation, Palace of Justice, Paris, France. International Society of Family Law Executive Council Colloquium and Meeting. Presented “Perceptions of Alimony and Other Marriage Protections (and The Lived Experience of Marriage)”
April 20, 2015 Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana. Panel on The Future of Religious Liberty in America? Presented “Harmonizing Gay Rights and Religious Freedom: Lessons from Indiana’s RFRA and The Utah Compromise”
April 15, 2015 University of Illinois College of Medicine Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. Conference on the Affordable Care Act. Presented “Understanding Hobby Lobby”
April 13, 2015 Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Illinois. J. Reuben Clark Law Society panel. Presented “Religious Freedom and Anti-Discrimination”
April 2, 2015 University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois. Investiture Remarks as the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law
March 16, 2015 The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Panelist on “Are There Win-Win Answers for Gay Rights and Religious Conscience?” ▪ Cited in William Galston, WALL STREET JOURNAL (March 17, 2015)
March 2, 2015 Brigham Young University School of Law, Provo, Utah. Panel on Pending LGBT Nondiscrimination Law. Presented “Balancing Religious Freedom Protections with Reasonable Safeguards for LGBT People”
February 20, 2015 Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Symposium 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Presented “Bargaining for Civil Rights: Lessons from Mrs. Murphy For Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights”
February 15, 2015 Yale University Trumbull College Residential College Seminar Program, New Haven, Connecticut. Guest Lecture in Seminar “On Gay Rights, God and Abortion: Constitutional Rights and the Culture Wars” (a dinner conversation about “Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage”)
November 20, 2014 University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Virginia. Panel with Former Solicitor General of Virginia William Hurd. Presented “Religious Liberty and the Accommodation of Same-Sex Marriage”
35 November 12, 2014 University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Student groups. Presented “Containing the Blowback over Hobby Lobby: The Goods and Risks of RFRA vs Specific Exemptions”
November 6, 2014 Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. Reproductive Rights Association student chapter. Debate on “Abortion and Rights”
October 30, 2014 Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana. Health Law Grand Rounds. Presented “Religious Conscience in Health Care: What Hobby Lobby Teaches Us”
October 30, 2014 Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana. Guest lecturer in Professor David Orentlicher’s Health Law Class. Presented “Research Gone Wrong: Lessons from Jesse Gelsinger”
October 17, 2014 University of Illinois YMCA, Champaign, Illinois. Friday Forum. Presented “Religious Freedom after Hobby Lobby”
August 1, 2014 Southeastern AALS Conference, Amelia Island, Florida. Presented “Demystifying Hobby Lobby”
July 8, 2014 Post Supreme Court Term Conference, Provo, Utah. Presented “Demystifying Hobby Lobby”
July 8, 2014 Post Supreme Court Term Conference, Provo, Utah. Presented “Religious Liberty after Hobby Lobby”
May 30, 2014 Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Toronto, Canada. Presented “Rough Waters: Critique of the Use of Experts in Family Court Litigation”
May 28, 2014 First Amendment Center at the Newseum, Washington, D.C. Panel Discussion of Gay Rights and Religious Freedom ▪ Featured in Gay Rights and Religious Freedom Take the Stage, MOMENT (June 12, 2014); A Moment Magazine Symposium on Gay Rights & Religious Freedom, MOMENT (July/Aug. 2014)
May 12, 2014 University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Blue Ridge Health Law Professors Meeting. Presented “Abortion Restrictions Spilling Over to Emergency Contraception”
April 25, 2014 Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. Conference on Clashing Rights: Free Speech and Reproductive Autonomy. Presented “Speaking Candidly About EC and Abortion: What Should Guide Disclosure”
April 18, 2014 George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Student group panel exploring “The ACA & the Contraceptive Mandate”
April 12, 2014 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. The 10th Joint Area Centers Symposium on Children and Globalization: Issues, Policies and Initiatives. Presented “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds: International Challenges for Protecting Children in On-Line Spaces”
36 April. 8, 2014 University of Oklahoma Institute for American Constitutional Heritage, Norman, Oklahoma. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Marriage of Necessity”
April 7, 2014 University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Demagoguing Abortion: Evaluating Competing Charges about the ACA’s Violation of the Hyde Amendment”
April 7, 2014 University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma. Faculty coffee on “Experiential Teaching”
February 26, 2014 University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Presented “Marriage of Necessity: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty Protections” (with Steven McAllister)
February 7, 2014 University of California Davis School of Law, Davis, California. Law Review Symposium, Not Equal Yet: Building upon Foundations of Relationship Equality. Presented “Marriage of Necessity: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty Protections”
November 20, 2013 Marquette University Law School and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Presented “Obamacare Uncertainty: Implementation Issues and Lingering Constitutional Concerns”
November 19, 2013 Yale University, Trumbull College, New Haven, Connecticut. Residential College Seminar on Gay Rights and the Courts. Participated in “Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage: A Dinner Conversation”
November 7, 2013 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Law Review Symposium Roe at 40 – The Controversy Continues. Co-presented “Emergency Contraceptives or ‘Abortion-Inducing’ Drugs? Empowering Women to Make Informed Decisions” (with Ryan Hrobak)
October 30, 2013 University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Demagoguing Abortion: Evaluating Competing Charges about the ACA’s Violation of the Hyde Amendment”
October 25, 2013 Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio. Law Review Symposium on The Supreme Court’s Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage in United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry: Analysis and Implications. Presented “Marriage of Necessity: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty Protections”
October 18, 2013 Cape Town University School of Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa. Open discussion with faculty on “Conscience Protections Regarding Abortion”
October 15, 2013 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Lectured on “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds: Children Having ‘Virtual Sex’ On-Line and Related Issues”
October 14, 2013 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Open seminar on research ethics (Council Chamber). Presented “New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research: a US Case Study”
October 14, 2013 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage from the Healthcare Context”
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October 10, 2013 University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Presented “Should the State Give Deference to Sharia Law or Other Religious Law When Resolving Muslim Family Law Disputes”
October 8, 2013 University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Regulating the Use of Anesthetized, Recently Deceased, and Conscious Patients in Medical Teaching”
September 26, 2013 DePaul College of Law Center for Church-State Studies, Chicago, Illinois. Symposium on the Role of Religious Institutions in a Democratic Society. Presented “Demagoguing Abortion: Evaluating Competing Charges about the ACA’s Violation of the Hyde Amendment”
September 19, 2013 Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York. Faculty. Workshop. Presented “Demagoguing Abortion: Evaluating Competing Charges about the ACA’s Violation of the Hyde Amendment”
September 16, 2013 William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada. Workshop, “Demagoguing Abortion: Evaluating Competing Charges about the ACA’s Violation of the Hyde Amendment”
August 8, 2013 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida. Panelist on Discussion on Employee Benefits Law & Disability Law
July 23, 2013 Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia. Grand Rounds. Presented “Institutional Conscience and Access to Services: Can we have both? Ethical Concerns Related to Abortion and the Obama Contraceptive Mandate”
July 4, 2013 London Metropolitan University, London, England. 2nd International Family Law and Practice Conference. Presented “The American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution – Have Courts Accepted the ALI Proposals?”
June 19, 2013 Oxford University, Harris-Manchester College, Oxford, England. Discussant at Roundtable on Parallel Sovereignties: Coexistence of Religious and Non-religious Legal Systems under the umbrella of the OXFORD JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION and the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College. Presented “Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion”
June 10-11, 2013 International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family, Cardozo University School of Law, New York City, New York. Symposium on the Jurisprudence of Family Relations: Privacy, Autonomy, and Should States Regulate Family Relations? Presented “The Erupting Clash Between Religion and the State Over Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion”
June 6-8, 2013 International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York. Symposium on Fostering Family Harmony: Principles and Practices. Presented “The Contraceptive Coverage Mandate and Family Harmony: Evaluating the Obama Administration's Approach to Promoting Women's Wellbeing”
May 5-11, 2013 University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Lectures on U.S. Family Law
38 May 20-21, 2013 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. First Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy, and Ethics. Presented “Evaluating the Regulation of Shrinking Cosmetics and Sunscreens”
April 8, 2013 University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Student group discussion of Gay Rights. Presented “A Marriage of Necessity: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Protections”
April 5-7, 2013 University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin. Midwest Family Law Consortium Workshop. Presented “Balancing New ‘Practicum’ Courses with Scholarship”
April 5, 2013 Harvard University School of Law, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 8th Annual Harvard Lambda Legal Advocacy Conference on Hanging in the Balance: LGBT Rights and the First Amendment. Panelist on Discussion of “Free Exercise and Compelled Speech Challenges”
March 20, 2013 Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Symposium on Gay Rights Coalition of Georgetown University Law Center v. Georgetown University. Co- presented on “Embracing Compromise: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty in the Political Process” (with Anthony Kreis)
March 16-19, 2013 World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, Sydney, Australia. Presented “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds”
March 15, 2013 The University of Sydney & Freedom 4 Faith, Sydney, Australia. Conference on the Scope and Limits of Religious Freedom. Presented “Balancing Religious Liberty and Gay Rights”
February 15, 2013 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Symposium on Discrimination against Muslim-Americans in a Post-9/11 World. Presented “Balancing Religious Liberty and Other Societal Goods Like Gay Rights”
February 13, 2013 University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida. Faculty Workshop. Presented “The Erupting Clash Between Religion and the State over Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion”
January 27, 2013 University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Student group discussion of “Should Insurance Companies Be Forced to Reimburse Contraceptives Despite Religious Objections?”
January 17, 2013 University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colorado. Panel organized by student groups on “Contraception, Obamacare, and the Clash of Church and State” (with Dayna Bowen Matthew)
October 24, 2012 Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Washington, D.C. Religious Freedom Project’s Symposium on Religious Freedom Past and Future. Commented on CHALLENGES TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Gerard Bradley
September 20-21, 2012 Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Symposium on Conscience, Religious Exemptions, and the HHS Contraception Rule. Presented “The Erupting Clash between Religion and the State over Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion”
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September 12, 2012 Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas. Faculty Forum. Presented “The Erupting Clash between Religion and the State over Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion”
July 30, 2012 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida. Presented “The Erupting Clash over the Sterilization and Contraception Coverage Mandate: Implications of the Empirical Evidence of Women's Contraceptive Usage”
June 15, 2012 University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa. Sustaining Families Conference. Presented “The Erupting Clash between Religion and the State over Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion”
April 22-23, 2012 Doha, Qatar, Symposium on Jurisprudence of Extended Families, Extending Families and Intergenerational Solidarity. Presented “Should the State be Neutral When Families, Based on Religious Understandings, Seek to Shift Duties of Support upon Divorce or Death from Spouses to the Extended Family?”
April 11-13, 2012 Oxford University, Magdalen College, Oxford, England. Conference on Religious Freedom and Equality: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe. Presented “The Calculus of Accommodation: Balancing the Interests of Religious Objectors and Civil Society”
April 5, 2012 Carilion Medical Center, Roanoke, Virginia. Conversations in Ethics Program. Presented “How Private Should Your Medical Records Be?”
April 2, 2012 University of Oklahoma School of Law, Norman, Oklahoma. Constitutional Studies Symposium on Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Traditions and New Horizons. Presented “The Erupting Clash Between Religion and the State Over Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion” (lunchtime keynote)
April 2, 2012 University of Oklahoma School of Law, Norman, Oklahoma. Constitutional Studies Symposium on Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Traditions and New Horizons. Panel on Religious Freedom and the Courts Today (with Oklahoma Solicitor General Patrick Wyrick)
March 8, 2012 The University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law, Missoula, Montana. Student group discussion of “Personhood Amendments”
March 7, 2012 Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, Washington. Student group discussion of Washington’s pending Same-sex Marriage Law
February 24, 2012 Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California. Symposium on The Competing Claims of Law & Religion: Who Should Influence Whom? Presented Invited Response to Keynote Speaker Professor Ayelet Shachar
February 23, 2012 University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas. Spring Colloquium Series. Presented “The Calculus of Accommodation”
February 22, 2012 Rutgers School of Law-Camden, Camden, New Jersey. Women's Law Caucus panel on Reproductive Rights. Presented “Interrogating Personhood Amendments: Is There Anything There?”
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July 26, 2011 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Panel on Human Subjects Research. Presented “Human Subjects Research: Protecting Test Subjects and Society”
July 18, 2011 International Society of Family Law Conference, Lyon, France. Presented “Civil— Not Religious Law—Should Govern Wealth Distribution upon Death or Divorce”
April 27, 2011 New York City Bar, New York City, New York. Forum on Reconciling Rights: Balancing LGBT Civil Rights with First Amendment Religious Protections. Presented “Protecting Religious Liberty in New York: A Path Forward to Same-Sex Marriage”
March 24, 2011 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland. Panel discussion on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberties
March 9, 2011 University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Student group discussion of Same-Gender Marriage. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation”
February 22, 2011 Roger Williams University School of Law, Bristol, Rhode Island. Student group discussion of Marriage Equality. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation”
November 5, 2010 St. John’s University School of Law, Queens, New York. Religious Legal Theory Conference. Presented “Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion”
October 11, 2010 University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Colloquium Series. Presented “The Perils of Privatized Marriage”
October 6, 2010 International Academy of Nanomedicine Second World Congress, Antalya, Turkey. Presented “Enlarging the Regulation of Shrinking Cosmetics and Sunscreens”
October 1, 2010 Yeditepe University Kayisdagi/Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey. Presented “The Legal Regulation of Nanotechnology: Towards a Middle Path”
September 22, 2010 Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy, Chicago, Illinois. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research”
September 16, 2010 SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York. Presented “Addressing the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research: Learning from the Jesse Gelsinger Case”
September 16, 2010 Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, New York. Faculty Colloquium. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research”
September 14, 2010 Center for Public Conversation, Institute for American Values, New York City, New York. Consultation on Achieving Disagreement Over Same-Sex Marriage (with Brookings scholar Jonathan Rauch and Yale professor William N. Eskridge, Jr.)
41 June 25, 2010 Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York. Annual Law and Religion Roundtable. Presented “Insubstantial Burdens: The Case for Government Employee Exemptions to Same-Sex Marriage Laws”
June 5, 2010 University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas. Health Law Teachers Annual Conference. Presented “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds: Protecting Children in Online Spaces.”
May 25-28, 2010 University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Lectures on U.S. Family Law
May 13, 2010 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Faculty Brown Bag Lunch. Presented “Scholarly Impact Analysis: Washington & Lee University School of Law”
April 15, 2010 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Law School Lambda and Harvard Federalist Society chapters. Panel Discussion on “Questions of Conscience? Religious Exemptions to Same Sex Marriage Law”
April 7, 2010 Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture. Presented “Trusting Mothers: A Critique of the American Law Institute’s De Facto Parent”
March 29, 2010 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore Maryland. American Constitution Society Panel Discussion on Gay Marriage
March 26, 2010 George Washington Law School, Washington, D.C. Book launching of RED FAMILIES V. BLUE FAMILIES: LEGAL POLARIZATION AND THE CREATION OF CULTURE by Naomi Cahn and June Carbone. Presented “Red Families, Blue Families, Red States, Blue States: Which is Which?”
March 8, 2010 University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion”
February 26, 2010 Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Provo, Utah. Symposium on the Future of Rights of Conscience in Health Care: Legal and Ethical Perspectives. Presented “Empowering Private Protection of Conscience”
February 6, 2010 Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. American Journal of Law and Medicine Symposium on Follow the Money: The Impact of Economics on the Delivery of Health Care. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research”
February 4, 2010 Carilion Medical Center, Roanoke, Virginia. Conversations in Ethics Program. Presented “Money, Prestige and Influence in Human Subjects Research”
February 1, 2010 Saint Louis University Center for Health Law Studies, St. Louis, Missouri. Distinguished Speakers Series. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research”
December 4, 2009 Princeton University, Princeton, University. Discussion of book project about Same- Sex Marriage by Northwestern University Professor Andrew Koppelman. Invited Response
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November 12, 2009 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Illinois. Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy Symposium on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Accommodation: Determining the Role of the Legislature. Presented “Lowering the Temperature on the Same-Sex Marriage Debate”
November 6, 2009 College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia. Bill of Rights Institute Symposium on Families, Fundamentalism & the First Amendment. Presented “Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion”
October 7, 2009 University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia. Course on Contemporary Issues in Family Law. Invited by former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court Leah Ward Sears to guest lecture on “De Facto Parents”
September 15, 2009 Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Health Law Workshop. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research”
August 31, 2009 University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Colloquium Series. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research”
August 25, 2009 5th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Presented “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds”
August 7, 2009 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida. Panel on Should Marriage Be Abolished? Presented “The Perils of Privatized Marriage”
July 16, 2009 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Children and the Law Junior Faculty Workshop (faculty co-convener). Moderated a discussion on “Developing a Scholarly Agenda”
June 15, 2009 South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Participated in “Roundtable Discussion of Emerging Technologies”
June 12-13, 2009 First World Congress of International Academy of Nanomedicine, Sanya, Hainan, China. Presented “The Legal Regulation of Nanotechnology: Towards a Middle Path”
June 7-8, 2009 International Society of Family Law Regional Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation”
May 11-15, 2009 University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Lectures on U.S. Family Law
April 23-24, 2009 Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Searle Center, Chicago, Illinois. Roundtable Discussion of Nanotechnology
April 14, 2009 Dutch Equal Opportunities Commission and University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty in the United States”
April 3, 2009 National Association of Women Judges, hosted by the Georgia Supreme Court, Atlanta, Georgia. Presented Keynote Address on “De Facto Parenthood and Child Well-being”
43 April 2, 2009 Emory University Center for Ethics and the Emory University School of Law Health Law Society, Atlanta, Georgia. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research”
April 1, 2009 Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research”
April 1, 2009 Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Panel Discussion on Same-Sex Marriage. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation”
March 25, 2009 Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C. American Constitution Society student lunch discussion. Panel Discussion on “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation”
March 13, 2009 The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Governing Ideas panel on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Lessons from Abortion”
February 27, 2009 Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Orange, California. Symposium on Judicial Activism: Same-Sex Marriage and the Aftermath of Proposition 8. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Life after Prop 8”
January 26, 2009 Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Moral Values Project. Panel on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty convened by Georgetown professor Chai Feldblum. Presented “Emerging Conflicts between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding a Live-And-Let-Live Solution”
December 11, 2008 University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law, Novi Sad, Serbia. Presented “Emerging Conflicts between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding a Live-And-Let- Live Solution” to faculty and students in Family Law
November 19, 2008 Supreme Court of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia. Conference on For Children’s Sake: A Summit on Marriage and Family. Presented “De Facto Parenthood and Child Well-being” (keynote address)
October 24, 2008 Chapman University School of Law, Orange, California. The Chapman Dialogue Series, Panel on Legal Aspects of Same-Sex Marriage and Prop 8 Issues. Presented “Emerging Conflicts between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding a Live- And-Let-Live Solution”
October 17, 2008 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Conference on Who is Called a Parent and Why. Presented “The Meaning of Adoption: A Comment on Brinig and Patterson”
October 4, 2008 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Law Review Symposium on Protecting Virtual Playgrounds: Children, Law and Play Online (faculty co-convener). Presented “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds”
September 19, 2008 13th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law & the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice, Vienna, Austria. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage from the Healthcare Context”
44 September 9, 2008 First Amendment Center at the Newseum, Washington, D.C. Book launching of SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: EMERGING CONFLICTS. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage from the Healthcare Context”
August 2, 2008 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida. Panel on New Developments in Parenthood. Presented “The ALI’s Conception of Parent: Is It Getting Traction?”
June 14, 2008 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Seminar on the Family. Presented “Ignoring Gender: A Critique of Modern Family Law”
June 6, 2008 The American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Health Law Teachers Conference, Drexel University College of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Presented “Estate of Gelsinger v. Trustees of University of Pennsylvania: Money, Prestige, and Influence in Human Subjects Research”
May 10 – 16, 2008 University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Lectures on U.S. Family Law
April 11, 2008 University of Idaho College of Law, Boise, Idaho. Symposium on Law & Healthcare: Bridging the Divisions Symposium. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Regulating the Use of Anesthetized, Recently Deceased, and Conscious Patients in Medical Teaching”
December 13, 2007 Mt. Kopaonik, Serbia, XX Conference of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law. Presented “Blind Trust: The American Law Institute’s Proposed Treatment of De Facto Parents”
December 13, 2007 Mt. Kopaonik, Serbia, XX Conference of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law. Presented “Emerging Conflicts between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding a Live-And-Let-Live Solution”
December 12, 2007 University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law, Novi Sad, Serbia. Presented “Blind Trust: The American Law Institute’s Proposed Treatment of De Facto Parents” to faculty and students in Family Law
November 14, 2007 St. Thomas University School of Law, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Conference on Multi- Tiered Marriage. Presented “The Perils of Privatized Marriage”
November 8, 2007 Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. Panel on Science, Morality, and Health Care Issues. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Moral Clashes over Deeply Divisive Healthcare Procedures”
October 1, 2007 Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, Provo, Utah. Symposium on Same-Sex Marriage and Gay Adoptions: Inclusion, Compromise, Protection, and Consequences. Presented “A Matter of Conviction: Moral Clashes over Same-Sex Adoption”
June 25 – 30, 2007 30th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Padua, Italy. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents”
June 18 – 20, 2007 International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Presented “Perils of Privatized Marriage”
45 June 7 – 9, 2007 Commission on European Family Law, 3rd Annual Conference, Oslo, Norway. Presented “Harmonization of Family Law in the United States” (keynote address)
May 17 – 19, 2007 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Presented “Keeping Women in Business: Examining the Business School Education”
May 4, 2007 Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Searle Center, Chicago, Illinois. Co- Presented “A Review of Health Care Regulation” (with Professor David Hyman)
March 30, 2007 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Conference on Gender Relevant Legislation in Muslim and Non-Muslim Countries. Presented “Perils of Privatized Marriage”
March 23, 2007 University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland. Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery, Nanomedicine Research Day. Presented “Legal Issues in the Regulation of Nanotechnology”
February 22, 2007 Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California. Presented “The Role of the Civil State in Marriage and Divorce”
February 3, 2007 University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina. Barnes Symposium. Presented “Law’s Inadequacy”
November 21, 2006 Arizona State University College of Law, Tempe, Arizona. Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns”
November 17, 2006 University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia. The Center for Children, Families and the Law. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents”
October 26, 2006 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents”
October 18, 2006 University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia. Grand Rounds. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Evaluating the Duty to Dispense Emergency Contraceptives”
September 21, 2006 Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. Invited Response to MEDICARE MEETS MEPHISTOPHELES by David A. Hyman. Presented “Medicare: Where’s the Common Sense?” ▪ Aired on Book Notes, C-SPAN (Oct. 22, 2006)
September 11, 2006 National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C. American Academy of Nanomedicine, Second Annual Conference. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns”
July 11, 2006 International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not the Child”
46 June 20, 2006 Maryland Health Care Ethics Committee Network, Baltimore, Maryland. Conference on Should Conscience Be Your Guide? Exploring Conscience-Based Refusals in Health Care. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Evaluating the Duty to Dispense Emergency Contraceptives”
June 2, 2006 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland. Health Law Teachers Annual Conference. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns”
May 22, 2006 The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. Conference on Same-Sex Marriage and the Fate of Religious Liberties. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage from the Healthcare Context”
April 28, 2006 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland. Nanotechnology Regulatory Working Group. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns”
April 12, 2006 University of Illinois College of Law and School of Medicine, Champaign, Illinois. Jon David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy and the University of Illinois Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns”
March 31, 2006 Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy. Presented “Remove the Threat, Not the Child: A Test Case for Using Social Science to Guide Child and Family Policy”
February 27, 2006 Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, Provo, Utah. Presented “Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Children?”
February 21, 2006 George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia. Faculty Workshop Series. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not the Child”
February 20, 2006 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Faculty Workshop Series. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not the Child”
December 15, 2005 The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, D.C. Conference on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same- Sex Marriage from the Healthcare Context”
November 15, 2005 University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Remove the Threat, Not the Child”
September 30, 2005 College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia. Conference on Reforming Parenting Laws. Co-presented “Bringing Up Baby: Adoption, Marriage, and the Best Interests of the Child” (with Bradford Wilcox)
July 20, 2005 12th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law, Salt Lake City, Utah. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents”
47 July 8, 2005 University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina. Presented “Managing a Scholarship Agenda: What Has Worked and What Hasn't”
June 4, 2005 Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: The Cost of Failing to Grasp Sociolegal Research”
June 3, 2005 University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas. Health Law Teachers Annual Conference. Presented “Nanotechnology and Planning for the Unknown: Lessons from Bioterrorism”
March 9, 2005 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland. Faculty Forum. Presented “Remove the Threat, Not the Child: A Test Case for the Public Health Approach”
March 4, 2005 University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Conference on Nano-Ethics. Presented “Nanotechnology and Bioterrorism: Issues in Regulation”
January 14, 2005 University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California. Conference on The Meaning of Marriage. Presented “Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Children?”
October 29, 2004 University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia. The Center for Children, Families and the Law Conference on The State Construction of Families: Foster Care, Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption. Presented “Remove the Threat, Not the Child: A Test Case for the Public Health Approach”
October 14, 2004 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conference on Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents” (co-chaired conference with Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon)
May 27, 2004 Law & Society Association, 40th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Conference on Law, Power, and Injustice: Confronting the Legacies of Sociolegal Research. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: The Cost of Failing to Grasp Sociolegal Research”
April 7, 2004 Medical University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Presidential Scholars Conference. Presented “The Malpractice Premium ‘Crisis’: Expected or Intended?”
March 17, 2004 St. Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri. Center for Health Law Studies. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Deception in Teaching Practices at Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals”
March 5, 2004 University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Conference on Imaging and Imagining Nanoscience & Engineering. Presented “Legal Regulation of Nanotechnology: Can Regulation & Technology Co-Evolve?”
March 1, 2004 George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia. Faculty Workshop. Presented “The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings”
48 February 19, 2004 Helping Families Change 2004 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. Presented “Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings: Its Role in Family Intervention”
February 19, 2004 Helping Families Change 2004 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. Presented “The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children after Divorce: The Need for Intervention with Families in Transition”
December 11, 2003 University of Wales, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. School of Medicine and the National Health Service Trust. Presented “The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings”
December 9, 2003 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, London, England. Presented “Predicting Sexual Exploitation in Families Where One Child Has Been Victimized”
December 8, 2003 Coventry and Warwickshire Child Health Education Group, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, England. Presented “Incest: Who is the Next Victim?”
November 14, 2003 University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, Maryland. Brown Bag Research Series. Presented “Incest: Who is the Next Victim?”
August 29, 2003 International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect, IXth Regional European Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Warsaw, Poland. Presented “Getting Judges to Recognize the Threat Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings: The Essential Role of an Interdisciplinary Approach”
July 8, 2003 Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Florence, Italy. Presented “Making Child Abuse Research Work to Protect Kids” (session organizer)
June 27, 2003 International Society of Family Law, North American Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Hurdles Facing Families that Want to Limit the Use of Deceased Patients for Training Purposes”
June 7, 2003 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Deception in Teaching Practices at Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals”
April 23, 2003 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland. Faculty Workshop. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Teaching Pelvic Examinations on Women under Anesthesia Without Their Consent”
March 20, 2003 University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida. Center on Children and the Law, Conference on Children, Culture, and Violence: Myths, Images and Realities. Presented “Serial Offenders: Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care”
March 12, 2003 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Meeting on the Direction of Family Law. Presented “The American Law Institute’s False Promise to Protect Children of Cohabiting Unions”
49 January 31, 2003 Florida State University College of Law, Gainesville, Florida. Faculty Workshop. Presented “The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings”
September 26, 2002 Symposium on Children and Youth at Risk, Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 2002, Tokyo, Japan. Presented “Predicting Sexual Exploitation in Families Where One Child Has Been Victimized”
September 26, 2002 Symposium on Children and Youth at Risk, Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 2002, Tokyo, Japan. Presented “Legal Research on State Protection of Children: Methods and Challenges” (co-presenter)
August 2 –7, 2002 International Society of Family Law, 11th World Conference on Family Life and Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark & Oslo, Norway. Presented “Infertility and Gestational Agreements: Does Infertility Matter to Family Functioning?”
July 30, 2002 Southeastern Association of American Law Schools, Palm Beach, Florida. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Teaching Pelvic Examinations on Women under Anesthesia without Their Consent”
June 15, 2002 Third International Conference on Child & Adolescent Mental Health, Brisbane, Australia. Presented “Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings: Its Role in Family Intervention”
June 14, 2001 International Society of Family Law, North American Regional Conference, Queen’s University Faculty of Law, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Presented “Evaluating the Threat Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings”
June 2, 2001 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented “Private Contracting in Medicare”
October 2000 Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law, Third Annual Conference, University of Indiana School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana. Presented “Adopted Children, Family Structure, and Abuse”
July 2000 International Society for Family Law, 10th World Conference, Brisbane, Australia. Presented “Children at Risk: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children After Divorce”
September 1999 Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Presented “The Law and Biology of Child Sexual Abuse”
July 1999 Southeastern Association of American Law Schools, Palm Beach, Florida. Young Scholars Workshop. Presented “Family Structures, Child Sexual Abuse and Custody Decisions”
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
April 18, 2020 American Medical Student Association, presented “When Routine Training is Unethical and Becomes Illegal: The Case of Intimate Exams for Teaching Purposes” (with Dr. Ari Silver-Isenstadt, Ashley Weitz, and Dr. Phoebe Friesen)
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February 23, 2020 Federal Bar Council Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, presented The Future of Religious Freedom December 11, 2019 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Suffrage Conference at The Jan and Morris Benin Land Law Division Building presented “Standing on The Shoulders of Giants: How Far We Have Come, Distance Yet To Go”
December 9, 2019 Religion, Culture, Custom and Children’s Interests: When Does Faith Imperil Children – Reflections on the US’ Family Law Isolationism, ISFL Regional Conference: Children’s Rights and Interests in Tel Aviv, Israel. Panel Speaker
November 6, 2019 Rethinking Informed Consent in Medical Education – The Work on Teaching Intimate Exams Which May Also Be Helpful, Emory University Medical School Grand Rounds
October 26, 2019 American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 21st Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
October 21, 2019 Illinois Family Support Enforcement Association Conference, Champaign, Illinois. Presented “Relational Parentage: Implications for Support and Safe” (invited keynote)
June 19, 2019 Tanenbaum Religious Diversity Leadership Summit at Bloomberg, New York City, New York. Panelist on panel exploring employee resource groups supporting LGBTQ workers and religious workers
April 27, 2018 Illinois Council of Family Relations, Normal, Illinois. Presented “The Medicalization of Poverty: How Tying Healthcare Coverage to Family Status Hurts Families and Individuals”
March 10, 2018 Georgetown University, Federalist Society Annual Student Symposium, Washington, D.C. Presented “Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights and the Need for Common Ground”
November 16, 2017 Christian Legal Society Lawyers Chapter, NYU School of Law, New York, New York. Discussion of Religious Liberty Issues Arising in America's Culture Wars. Presented “Common Humanity Holds the Key to a Truce”
November 2, 2017 Foundation Day: Medicalization of Poverty Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law, Champaign, Illinois (opening dinner remarks and moderator; co-convener)
September 8, 2017 Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois. Guardian Ad Litem training. Presented “Children at Risk: Patterns of Violence, Family Structure, and Questions of Parentage”
May 16, 2017 University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois. Public Discussion of “An Illinois Constitution for the 21st Century”
April 24-25, 2017 Symposium on the Prevention of Unnecessary Divorce, Minneapolis, Minnesota
March 17-19, 2017 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2017 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Presented “When First-in-Human Studies Result in Death: Legal and Regulatory Lessons”
51 January 25, 2017 Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention Leadership Summit, Washington, D.C. Discussant.
January 6, 2017 AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Education and the Law, San Francisco, California. Panel on “New Horizons: Navigating the Complex Landscape of Title IX Compliance Panel.” Presented “Title IX Claims in K-12 Education: Debunking the Safety Claims Made About Trans Students”
October 26, 2017 Council for Christian Colleges & Universities regional meeting, Provo, Utah. Co- presented with Utah Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams on “Fairness for All: Exploring the Need for a Balanced Approach”
September 29-30, 2016 2016 Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, Regent University School of Law, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Co-presented with Utah Senate Majority Whip J. Stuart Adams on “Lessons from Utah For Fairness for All”
August 20, 2013 Lawyers’ Chapter, Federalist Society, Richmond, Virginia. Presented “The Growing Clash between the Regulatory State and Religion”
November 19, 2014 St. Thomas More Society, Richmond, Virginia chapter. “Preserving Liberty in the Wake of Same-Sex Marriage: Challenges and Opportunities”
November 13, 2014 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention, Washington D.C., Panel on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
October 2, 2014 University of Illinois Religious Workers Association, Champaign, Illinois. Presented “Religious Freedom and the Law: Hobby Lobby and After”
September 17, 2014 Obama LGBT Executive Order Tele forum, Panelist
July 11, 2012 Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia. Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds. Presented “Addressing the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research: Learning from the Jesse Gelsinger Case”
March 2, 2012 Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia. Guest lectured in the On Being a Doctor course. Presented “Health Law & Bioethics”
February 29, 2012 Eastern Virginia Medical School, Endocrine Grand Rounds. Presented “Addressing the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research: Learning from the Jesse Gelsinger Case”
February 23, 2012 Lawyers Chapter, Federalist Society, Houston, Texas. Presented “Conscience Clauses in the Law”
November 12, 2011 The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Brainstorming session on civility and same-sex marriage reform
June 6, 2011 The Brookings Institution Governance Studies, Washington, D.C. Roundtable Discussion on Liberty of Conscience and Medical Workers’ Refusals to Provide or Participate in the Delivery of Certain Lawful Healthcare Services (invited conversation starter)
52 September 23, 2010 Achieving Excellence in Clinical Research Conference, Oak Brook, Illinois. Presented “Research Gone Wrong: Lessons Learned from the Jesse Gelsinger Case”
September 23, 2010 Achieving Excellence in Clinical Research Conference, Oak Brook, Illinois. Presented “Continuing Dialogue on the Gelsinger Case: Implications for Practice”
November 15, 2009 Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) 35th Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research”
January 8, 2009 American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. Chaired session for Section on Family and Juvenile Law. Presented “Keeping Women in Business”
October 28, 2006 HERS Foundation, Nashville, Tennessee. Twenty-Fifth Annual Hysterectomy Conference. Presented “Consent: The Law and Hysterectomy” (invited keynote)
September 14, 2006 Conference on Marriage and the Law, New York, New York. Book launching of RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION. Presented “ALI Principles Sharp Break with Settled Understandings of Family Law”
June 1, 2006 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland. Presented “Publishing Strategies for Health Law Teachers” (moderator and presenter)
April 7, 2006 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland. Conference on The Global Advancement of Women: Barriers and Best Practices. Moderated Panel on “Best Practices: Enhancing Human Security”
July 20, 2005 International Society of Family Law, 12th World Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah. Moderated Panel on Mentoring New Faculty
January 7, 2005 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Chaired Session on Law, Medicine and Health Care. Presented “Autonomy Suspended: The Use of Patients for Teaching Purposes without their Knowledge or Consent”
March 18, 2004 Washington University Schools of Law and Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. Conference on Law and Mental Health. Moderated Luncheon Panel on “Mental Health Assessment Issues in the Justice System and Risks of Abuse to Individuals with Mental Disabilities”
January 29, 2004 Maine State Bar Association, Samoset, Maine. Presented “Using Social Science Research to Improve Judicial Decision making” (invited keynote)
January 4, 2004 Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Presented “Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Kids?”
August 7, 2003 South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, 2003 Annual Convention, Columbia, South Carolina. Presented “Predicting Sexual Exploitation in Families Where One Child Has Been Victimized”
53 July 10, 2003 International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 2003 World Conference, Florence, Italy. Reporter for Conference Closing. Presented “Report of the Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood”
June 28, 2003 International Society of Family Law, North American Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon. Presented “Fostering a Mentoring Program for New Family Law Faculty”
June 7, 2003 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware. Presented “Making a Difference in Health Policy”
November 8, 2002 Southeast American Association of Mental Retardation, 48th Annual Conference, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Presented “Legal and Ethical Issues in the Care of Adults with Disabilities” (panelist)
June 8, 2002 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana. Moderated Panel on Reproductive Issues
January 26, 2002 International Society of Family Law, Executive Council Annual Meeting, Paris, France. Presented proposal to mentor new family law faculty
January 2002 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Business Meeting of the Section on Family & Juvenile Law, Washington, D.C. Co-chaired Round Table Discussion of Teaching Family Law
September 2001 Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. 26th Advanced Training Institute and Annual Conference. Presented “Predicting Risk of Sexual Abuse for Children Following Divorce”
June 2001 South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Columbia, South Carolina. 2001 Summer Institute. Presented “Addressing the Sexual Exploitation of Minors and Cracking Down on Sexual Predators”
May 17, 2001 University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida. Conference on Compassionate Care at the End of Life co-sponsored by the Holland & Knight Institute and Project Grace. Presented “Barriers, Real and Perceived, to Appropriate Pain Management”
January 2001 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Moderated Panel on Socio-Economics and the Future of Family Law, Section on Socio- Economics
COURT AND EXECUTIVE AGENCY CITATIONS
2017 State v. Decker, 2017 Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 402, *9 (Minneapolis Court of Appeals 2017), citing Robin Fretwell Wilson, Sex Play in Virtual Worlds, 66 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1127 (2009)
2016 Berezowsky v. Ojeda, 652 F. App'x 249 (5th Cir. 2016), citing John DeWitt Gregory, Peter Nash Swisher & Robin Fretwell Wilson, UNDERSTANDING FAMILY LAW 522-23 (4th ed. 2013)
54 2015 In re Marriage of Gust, 858 N.W.2d 402 (Iowa 2015), citing Michael R. Clisham & Robin Fretwell Wilson, American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, Eight Years After Adoption: Guiding Principles or Obligatory Footnote? 42 FAM. L.Q. 573, 577 (2008)
2015 James R.D. v. Maria Z. (In re Scarlett Z.-D.), 28 N.E.3d 776 (Ill. 2015), citing Robin Fretwell Wilson, Trusting Mothers: A Critique of the American Law Institute's Treatment of De Facto Parents, 38 HOFSTRA L. REV. 1103 (2010)
2013 In re Custody of B.M.H., 179 Wash. 2d 224 (2013), citing Robin Fretwell Wilson, Trusting Mothers: A Critique of The American Law Institute's Treatment of De Facto Parents, 38 HOFSTRA L. REV. 1103, 1112 (2010)
2011 United States v. Bagley, No. 10-00244-01-CR-W-DW, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 152987 (W.D. Mo. Dec. 27, 2011), citing Robin Fretwell Wilson, Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the ALI's Treatment of De Facto Parents, in RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE OF THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION 90, 117-118 (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., 2006)
2011 United States v. Taylor, 640 F.3d 255 (7th Cir. 2011), citing Robin Fretwell Wilson, Sex Play in Virtual Worlds, 66 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1127 (2009)
2010 United States v. Batton, 602 F.3d 1191 (10th Cir. 2010), citing Robin Fretwell Wilson, Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the ALI's Treatment of De Facto Parents, in RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE OF THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION 90, 117-118 (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., 2006)
2009 Federal Trade Commission, VIRTUAL WORLDS AND KIDS: MAPPING THE RISKS: A REPORT TO CONGRESS, citing Robin Fretwell Wilson, Sex Play in Virtual Worlds, 66 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1127 (2009)
2009 Smith v. Gordon, 968 A.2d 1 (Del. 2009), citing RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE'S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION 47, 64 (Robin Fretwell Wilson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2006)
2008 Smith v. Smith, 769 N.W.2d 591 (2008), citing RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE'S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION (Robin Fretwell Wilson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2006)
2007 Yodfat v. Yodfat , No. 2002 CV 2722, 2007 Pa. Dist & Cnty. Dec. LEXIS 25 (Pa. C.P. Feb. 16, 2007), citing Robin Fretwell Wilson, Children at Risk: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children After Divorce, 86 CORNELL L. REV. 251 (2001)
GIFTS AND GRANTS
OUTSTANDING REQUESTS
2019 $750,000 Henry Luce Foundation Advancing Public Scholarship on Religion and Theology to support COMING TOGETHER: A PARTNERSHIP OF FAITH, LGBT, CORPORATE, AND LAWMAKING COMMUNITIES TO DISRUPT THE CULTURE WAR (selected by campus to make proposal; submitted)
55 2019 $689,421 gift exploration with Tawani Foundation officers to support the Inclusive America Dialogues (asked after October 16, 2019 meeting with Foundation to make proposal with specific requests; in preparation)
AWARDED
2019 $15,190 directed gift from Templeton Religion Trust to support TOLERANCE MEANS DIALOGUES in 2018-2019 (gift requestor)
2019 $10,000 direct support from Freedom Forum Institute for book launch of RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, LGBT RIGHTS AND THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMON GROUND
2019 $10,000 grant from Bridge Fund of the University of Illinois and University of Birmingham to support the ongoing collaboration on scholarship and public engagement around LGBT rights (co-principal investigator)
2019 $2,100 direct support from University of Notre Dame School of Law to support the International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference hosted by the Family Law & Policy Program (gift requestor)
2019 $2,000 direct support received from the First Amendment Partnership to support the Inclusive Midwest Initiative (gift requestor)
2019 $1,500 directed gift received from Michael Strauss, Schlessinger & Strauss, LLC to support the 2019 International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference (gift requestor)
2019 $2,000 directed gift from Tanenbaum Foundation to support the Inclusive Midwest Initiative – Protecting LGBT Rights and Religious Liberty
2019 $1,000 directed gift from the Ruth and Emmanuel Rackman International Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women to support the UN CEDAW/International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference hosted by the Family Law & Policy Program (gift requestor)
2018 $50,000 directed gift from First Amendment Partnership to support FINDING FAMILIES: AN ADOPTION INITIATIVE (gift requestor)
2018 $31,980 directed gift from Templeton Religion Trust to support TOLERANCE MEANS DIALOGUES in 2018-2019 (gift requestor)
2018 $19,500 from University of Illinois College of Law Professor (Emeritus) Harry Krause and family to support the Emerging Scholars Workshops
2018 $5,000 directed gift from Sacramento Court-Clergy Conference to purchase RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LGBT RIGHTS, AND FINDING COMMON GROUND
2018 $1,350 direct support from Grinnell College to support FINDING FAMILIES: AN ADOPTION INITIATIVE’s policy discussion at The Cato Institute (gift requestor)
2018 $1,226 direct support gift from the University of Illinois to support the TOLERANCE MEANS DIALOGUE
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2017 $50,000 directed gift from First Amendment Partnership to support FAIRNESS FOR ALL INITIATIVE’s state legislative efforts (gift requestor)
2017 $48,000 direct support from First Amendment Partnership to support TOLERANCE MEANS DIALOGUES in 2017-2018 (gift requestor)
2017 $40,000 directed gift from Templeton Religion Trust to support the FAIRNESS FOR ALL INITIATIVE, on behalf of earlier commitment from John Templeton Foundation (gift requestor)
2017 $24,000 direct support from The Carle Foundation to support keynote and Scholars Workshop for the MEDICALIZATION OF POVERTY SYMPOSIUM (gift requestor)
2017 $11,000 directed gift from the University of Virginia to co-sponsor the MEDICALIZATION OF POVERTY SYMPOSIUM (gift requestor)
2017 $4,500 directed gift from First Amendment Partnership to support a pilot of the TOLERANCE MEANS DIALOGUE (gift requestor)
2017 $1,000 from the Institute for Genomic Biology to co-sponsor the MEDICALIZATION OF POVERTY SYMPOSIUM (gift requestor)
2017 $1,000 from the University of Illinois Gies College of Business to co-sponsor the MEDICALIZATION OF POVERTY SYMPOSIUM (gift requestor)
2017 $1,000 direct support from MedAxiom to co-sponsor MEDICALIZATION OF POVERTY SYMPOSIUM (financial support for travel) (gift requestor)
2016 $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice to support “Family Court Decisions About Child Custody in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence” from July 2016 – July 2019 (co-investigator with faculty in Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois)
2016 $193,778 directed gift from the Templeton Religion Trust in support of the FAIRNESS FOR ALL INITIATIVE (gift requestor)
2016 $25,000 directed gift from the First Amendment Partnership to support YALE LAW SCHOOL CONFERENCE ON FAITH, SEXUALITY AND THE MEANING OF FREEDOM, co- hosted with William N. Eskridge, Jr., Yale Law School (gift requestor)
2016 $450 contribution by Yale Law School for support of YALE LAW SCHOOL CONFERENCE ON FAITH, SEXUALITY AND THE MEANING OF FREEDOM, co-hosted with William N. Eskridge, Jr., Yale Law School
2016 Partnership with Notre Dame Law School and Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology to support the 2016 HARRY KRAUSE EMERGING FAMILY LAW SCHOLARS WORKSHOP (providing travel support for senior scholars who comment on papers)
2015 Partnership with Schiff Hardin LLC, University of Minnesota, George Washington University, and the Institute for American Values to support the inaugural CONVERSATION ON THE FAMILY: BRINGING TOGETHER THE JUDICIARY, LEGISLATORS,
57 PRACTICING BAR, AND FAMILY LAW SCHOLARS on “When Economic Struggles Constrain Family Choices” (providing venue and travel support)
2014 $45,828 Future Interdisciplinary Research Explorations (FIRE) Seed Grant from University of Illinois College of ACES Office of Research to support initial data collection for “The Impact of Access to Marriage on the Daily Lives of Same-Sex Couples” (co-investigator)
2014 $25,000 grant from University of Illinois Campus Research Board to support “Two more Waves of data, ‘As the States Turn: Marriage in a Changing Legal Context’ (ID#: RB15160) (co-investigator)
2014 $10,000 directed gift from DePaul University for LAW REVIEW 2015 SYMPOSIUM ON LAW, RELIGION AND THE FAMILY UNIT AFTER HOBBY LOBBY: A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR HARRY KRAUSE (gift requestor)
2014 Partnership with University of Minnesota, Brooklyn Law School, and the University of South Carolina to support the inaugural HARRY KRAUSE EMERGING FAMILY LAW SCHOLARS WORKSHOP (participating faculty paid their own travel)
2011 $4,000 directed gift from Johnson & Johnson, Inc. to support the 2011 Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium (gift requestor)
2009 $4,000 directed gift from Johnson & Johnson, Inc. to support the Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium Series Inaugural Colloquium (gift requestor)
2005 – 2006 $6,000 Subcontract with University of South Carolina to continue work on National Science Foundation Grant, “From Laboratory to Society: Developing an Informed Approach to Nanoscale Science and Technology”
2004 – 2005 $6,000 Subcontract with University of South Carolina to continue work on National Science Foundation Grant, “From Laboratory to Society: Developing an Informed Approach to Nanoscale Science and Technology”
1999 – 2004 Approximately $30,000 in directed gifts from Johnson & Johnson, Inc. to support the Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Law Lecture Series (gift requestor)
2003 $1,350,000 National Science Foundation Grant, “From Laboratory to Society: Developing an Informed Approach to Nanoscale Science and Technology” (co- investigator with 11 other faculty)
2003 $10,000 directed gift from The Lexington Medical Center to support Students Assisting Seniors (gift requestor)
2003 $4,500 Grant from the Office of the Interim Vice President for Research, University of South Carolina, to support a statistician for Students Assisting Seniors
2002 $15,000 Grant from The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging, to support “Closing the Gaps in the Medicare Assistance Programs for the Low-Income Elderly” (co-principal investigator with Wanzer Drane, School of Public Health) o Solicited in-kind contributions from local businesses, including Kinko’s, Forms & Supplies, Cribb’s Bakery, and Stuffy’s
58 2001 $175,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation, “Philosophical and Social Dimensions of Nanoscale Research: Developing a Rational Approach to a Newly Emerging Science and Technology” (co-investigator with 12 other faculty in 6 departments)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2019 – Present National Institutes of Health K01 Award Grant Team
2019 – Present Fulbright Specialist Roster Member on Civil Rights Complementarity
2019 – Present Theme in Genomic Security and Privacy at the Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Founding Faculty Member
2017 - Present International Society of Family Law. Vice President (pending approval), Newsletter Editor, Website Co-Editor (with Joanna Miles, Trinity College, Cambridge)
2014 - Present Law and Religion Section, Association of American Law Schools. Chair (2017 – present); Chair-Elect (2016 – 2017); Member At Large, Executive Committee (2014 – 2015)
2012 - 2013 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Law School Dialogue Series, Founder
2010 American Law Institute, New Members Dinner, 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Co-Chair
2001 – Present Family & Juvenile Law Section, Association of American Law Schools. Chair (2009 – 2010); Chair-Elect (2008 – 2009); Secretary-Treasurer (2007 – 2008); Member, Executive Committee (2001 – Present); Chair, Mentoring Program (2001 – 2006)
2003 – Present Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care, Association of American Law Schools. Chair (2005 – 2006), Chair-Elect (2004 – 2005), Secretary (2003 – 2004)
2001 – 2004 Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital, Ethics Committee, Member
1999 – 2004 Palmetto Health Alliance, Core Residency Program, Lecturer
2000 – 2002, 2004 University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Capstone Month, Lecturer
2002 – 2003 American Bar Association, Schwab Family Law Essay Contest, Judge
ASSISTANCE TO LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY BODIES
2016 U.S. Congressman Charlie Dent Legislative Consultant on Equality Act and other measures that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT individuals while protecting religious liberty
2016 U.S. Congressman Bob Dold Legislative Consultant on Equality Act and other measures that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT individuals while protecting religious liberty
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2016 Representative Bill Hayes, Ohio House of Representatives Legislative Consultant on House Bill 357
2016 Senate Majority Leader Bart M. Davis, Idaho Senate Legislative Consultant on bills to balance LGBT rights with religious liberty protections
2016 Senator Travis Holdman, Indiana Senate Legislative Consultant on Senate Bill 344 which would have balanced LGBT rights with religious liberty protections
2015 Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams, Utah Senate Legislative Consultant tasked with assisting Legislature to enact Utah Compromise
2011 Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy of New York, U.S. House of Representatives Legislative Consultant on Informed Consent in Medical Teaching
2011 Senator Christopher Shank, Maryland State Senate Legislative Consultant on Same-Sex Marriage Legislation
2009 Governor John Lynch, Governor of New Hampshire Legislative Consultant on Same-Sex Marriage Legislation, resulting in religious liberty accommodations ▪ See New Hampshire Revised Statutes § 457:37 (2012)
2009 Senator Michael McLachlan, Minority Whip, Connecticut Senate Legislative Consultant on Same-Sex Marriage Legislation, resulting in religious liberty accommodations ▪ See Connecticut General Statutes §§ 46b-35a and 46b-35b
2006 – 2007 Delegate Robert Bell, Virginia House of Delegates Legislative Consultant on Informed Consent Legislation, resulting in legislation to require specific consent for pelvic exams performed for teaching purposes ▪ See Va. Code § 54.1-2959 (2012) (requiring “informed consent”)
2002 – 2004, 2007 Representative David Orentlicher, Indiana House of Representatives Legislative Consultant on Child Protection and Bioethics Legislation, resulting in legislation to protect all children in the home in instances of incest with one child and to exclude alleged offenders from the home ▪ See Ind. Code §§ 31-34-1-3, 31-34-12-4.5 (2012) (presuming risk to child living in same household as victim of sex offense) ▪ See Ind. Code § 31-34-2.3 et. seq. (2012) (authorizing exclusion of alleged offenders); S.B. 0311.
2002 – 2004 Democratic Minority Leader Representative James Smith, South Carolina House of Representatives Legislative Consultant on Lewis Blackman Patient Safety Act, enacted in 2004 ▪ See Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Safety Act, 2005 S.C. Acts 146 S.C. Code § 44-7-3410 et. seq. (2012)
2003, 2008, 2009 State of Minnesota, State Board of Law Examiners Drafter, Family Law Question, Minnesota Bar Exam
60 2002 – 2004 Covenant Marriage Study Committee, State of South Carolina (created by Joint Resolution of the South Carolina General Assembly) Member
2001 Office of Insurance Services, State Budget and Control Board, State of South Carolina. Member, Evaluation Panel for the State Health Plan Contract—Administrative Services Only (ASO)
Spring 2000 South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners Expert Reviewer on Disciplinary Matters
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2017 – Present International Journal for the Jurisprudence of the Family Managing Co-Editor
2016 – Present International Society of Family Law Newsletter Newsletter Editor; peer-reviewed legal developments by country; comparative law problems in Family Law
2003 – Present Legal Scholarship Network of the Social Science Research Network Founder and Co-Editor, Young Scholars Law Journal
2004 – 2007 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Editor, Reviews in Medical Ethics
2003 – 2005 Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association Editor, Law & Medicine Column
2000 – 2003 Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Newsletter Contributing Editor
2000 – 2002 Carolina Healthcare Business Legal Editor
PEER REVIEW
2019 Georgetown Law School, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2019 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2019 Journal of Church and State, Reviewer for “Race, Religion and Politics: Towards Human Rights in the United States”
2019 California Law Review, Outside Reviewer for article under consideration
2017 Tulane University School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2016 Oxford University Press, Reviewer for “Oxford Handbook on Children and the Law”
2016 Journal of Church and State, Blind Reviewer
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2016 Cambridge University Press, Reviewer for “With Power Comes Responsibility: Putting Children’s Interests at the Front Door of Family Law”
2015 Cambridge University Press, Reviewer for “Healthism: Heath Status Discrimination & the Law”
2015 University of Richmond School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2013 University of Minnesota Law School, Outside Reviewer for Hire of Chair in Family Law
2013 Cambridge University Press, Reviewer for “Pink and Blue Cement: The Parent-Partner Status”
2013 Oxford University Press, Reviewer for “Oxford Handbook on American Health Law”
2011 St. Louis University School of Law, Center for Health Law Studies, Commenter, 2011 Health Law Scholars Workshop
2011 Yale Law Journal, Outside Reviewer for article under consideration
2011 Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Hire of Chair in Family Law
2011 William & Mary School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2010 William & Mary School of Law, Commenter, Second Annual Family/Children & Law Junior Faculty Workshop
2009 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Children and the Law Young Scholars Workshop, Co-organizer and Co-host (with Professor Joan Shaughnessy)
2008 University of Colorado Law School, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2008 Aspen Publishers, Reviewer for Managing Editor
2008 University of Michigan Press, Reviewer for Acquisitions Editor
2008, 2009 Cambridge University Press, Reviewer for Book Acquisition Editor
2007 Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion
2007 Western New England College School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2006 Boston University School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Appointment and Tenure
2006 Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion
2004 IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Peer Reviewer
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2003 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion
2003 Cambridge University Press, Reviewer for Journals Acquisition Editor
2002 – 2003 American Public Health Association, Peer Reviewer
2002 Aspen Publishers, Inc., Reviewer, Insurance Law and Policy, a casebook by Professor Tom Baker
2002, 2005 Health Law Scholars Workshop, co-sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and Saint Louis University Center for Health Law Studies, Originator of Concept and Member of Selection Committee
2000 Child and Family Law Quarterly (British publication), Peer Reviewer
1997, 2001, 2002 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Peer Reviewer
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
1997 – 1998 MAYOR, DAY, CALDWELL & KEETON, L.L.P., Houston, Texas Associate, Health Care Law
1996 – 1997 FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI, L.L.P., Houston, Texas Associate, Health Care Law—Administrative
1995 – 1996 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, Jackson, Mississippi Law Clerk, Chambers of The Honorable E. Grady Jolly, Circuit Judge
1989 – 1992 HUNTON & WILLIAMS, Richmond, Virginia Legal Assistant, Public Finance Team—Health Care Finance Subteam
EDUCATION
May 1995 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, Charlottesville, Virginia Juris Doctor o Virginia Law Review o Order of the Coif o Armour Scholar (full scholarship) o Charles J. Frankel Award in Health Law o Virginia Bioethics Network. Researched and completed process of incorporating and securing 501(c)(3) status for statewide consortium of hospital ethics committees
May 1989 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Charlottesville, Virginia Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction, Majors in Religious Studies and Biology o Phi Beta Kappa o Omicron Delta Kappa o Miller Scholar (top student in the Department of Biology) o Virginia Scholar (merit scholarship) o Recipient of Lincoln-Lane and Ledger Star merit scholarships
63 o Echols Scholar
ADMITTED
Texas, 1995; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1996
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