Elizabeth A. Reilly

Title: Vice Provost for Academic Planning
Office: Room 217B
Phone: 330-972-6197
Fax: 330-258-2343
Email: reilly@uakron.edu
SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=81926
Selected Works - bepress: http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_reilly/
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Biography

Elizabeth A. Reilly is a C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Professor at The University of Akron School of Law. She began her academic career in 1980 as an Adjunct Professor at Akron Law and joined the faculty full time in 1984. From 1995 - 2009, Professor Reilly served as Associate Dean. She currently teaches torts, lawyers as leaders and sexual orientation and the law. Her research focuses on the intersections between individual and collective interests in areas such as reproductive choice, gender identity, juvenile justice, tort duties and damages, and the religion clauses. She is the author of numerous articles, including "Radical Tweak - Relocating the Power to Assign Sex," 12 Cardozo J. L. & Gender 297 (2005) and "The ‘Jurisprudence of Doubt': How the Premises of the Supreme Court's Abortion Jurisprudence Undermine Procreative Liberty," 14 Journal of Law and Politics 757 (1998). She is the editor of and a contributor to Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment: The Story of the First Interpreters of the 14^th Amendment, published by the University of Akron Press in 2011.

Professor Reilly presents regularly at academic and professional conferences and groups. In 2004, she received one of two Outstanding Teacher Scholar Awards from the University. Prior to joining Akron Law, Professor Reilly was an attorney and counselor of law for Whitaker & Reilly, where her emphasis was on criminal and personal injury litigation, both trial and appellate. She has been a member of the Akron Bar Board of Trustees and the Ohio Supreme Court's Rules Advisory Committee, as well as former chair of the Juvenile Rules Subcommittee. Professor Reilly has served on the Ohio State Bar Association Council of Delegates, Juvenile Justice Committee, and Section on Women in the Profession Board of Governors.  She is a current member of the Association of American Law Schools Executive Committee of the Section on Legal History, and has been a member of the AALS Section on Education Law Committee. Professor Reilly plays an active role at The University of Akron. She was chair of the President's Commission on Equity, and served on numerous task forces for the President and Provost, including the Diversity Committee, the RTP Task Force, the Academic Salary Affairs Task Force, the Program Review Task Force, and the Institute for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee. A member of the first class of women to attend Princeton University, she majored in English Language and Literature, and was graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Professor Reilly received her J.D. at The University of Akron School of Law, where she was first in the class.