Michele E. Gilman
Professor of Law & Director, Civil Advocacy Clinic
Co-Director, Center on Applied Feminism
B.A., cum laude, Duke University, 1990
J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan, 1993
Expertise
Contact Information
Telephone: (410) 837-5656
Room Number: WC 207
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Rosalind Williams, (410) 837-5705, (on campus x5705), WC 200, 40 West Chase
Courses Taught
Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Gilman was a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, an associate at Arnold and Porter in Washington, D.C., a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Frank A. Kaufman of the District of Maryland and an editor of the Michigan Law Review. Professor Gilman's scholarship focuses on issues relating to welfare and social justice, and her articles have been published in the California Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, among others. She was a visiting associate professor at the William and Mary School of Law during the 2005-2006 academic year, and a professor in the University of Aberdeen summer program in Summer 2009.
Professor Gilman directs the Civil Advocacy Clinic, in which student attorneys represent individuals and community groups in a wide array of civil litigation and law reform projects. She is involved in numerous groups working on behalf of low-income Marylanders. She is the Vice-President of the Board of the Public Justice Center, a member of the Committee on Litigation and Legal Priorities of the ACLU of Maryland, and served on the Maryland Bar's Section Council on Delivery of Legal Services from 2003-2008. Professor Gilman is the co-chair of the Scholarship Committee of the AALS Clinical Legal Education Section and will serve as an editor of the Clinical Law Review. She is also a co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism, which works to apply the insights of feminist legal theory to legal practice and policy. She is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars.
Selected Publications
Forthcoming
The President as Scientist-in-Chief, Willamette L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008) (symposium).
Privacy, Feminism, and Welfare, U. Balt. Law Forum (forthcoming 2008) (symposium).
Articles and Essays
Litigating Presidential Signing Statements, 16 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 131 (2007) (symposium).
Fighting Poverty With Faith: Reflections on Ten Years of Charitable Choice, 10 J. Gender, Race & Justice 395 (2007) (symposium).
If At First You Don't Succeed, Sign an Executive Order: President Bush and the Expansion of Charitable Choice, 15 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts J. 1103 (2007).
Poverty and Communitarianism: Toward a Community Based Welfare System, 66 Pitt. L. Rev.721 (2005).
Charitable Choice and the Accountability Challenge: Reconciling the Need for Regulation with the First Amendment Religion Clauses, 55 Vand. L. Rev. 797 (2002).
Legal Accountability in an Era of Privatized Welfare, 89 Cal. L. Rev. 569 (2001). Extract