Jessie Hill, JD

Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law
School of Law
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
School of Law

Jessie Hill, JD, is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law. She joined the faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, Hill worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Hill's teaching focuses on constitutional law, civil rights, reproductive rights, and law and religion. Her scholarship has been published in the Michigan Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Texas Law Review, among others.

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Interview with Jessie Hill - What is Social Justice?

Research Information

Research Interests

  • Constitutional Law
  • Law and Religion
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Civil Rights

Publications

Education

Juris Doctor
Harvard University
1999
Bachelor of Arts
Brown Univeristy
1992