Robin Fretwell Wilson

Professor, University of Illinois College of Law

Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law and Director of the Family Law and Policy Program at the University of Illinois College of Law, where her scholarship focuses on family law, children and violence, healthcare law, and bioethics. She is the author of six books, including Reconceiving the Family: Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (Cambridge University Press,2006, ed.); The Handbook of Children, Culture & Violence (Sage Publications, 2006, with Nancy Dowd and Dorothy Singer, eds.); Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, with Douglas Laycock and Anthony Picarello, eds.); Domestic Relations: Cases and Materials, 7th edition (Foundation Press, 2013, with Walter Wadlington and Raymond C. O’Brien); Understanding Family Law, 4thedition (LexisNexis, 2013, with John DeWitt Gregory and Peter N. Swisher); and Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context (Aspen, 2008, with Joan Krause, Sandra Johnson, and Richard Saver, eds.). Her work has been featured in the New York Times, theWashington Post, the Los Angeles Times, theWall Street Journal, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, the Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News & World Report, CNN Headline News, Good Morning America, and Esssence magazine, among others. A member of the American Law Institute, Professor Wilson has worked extensively on behalf of state law reform efforts. In 2007, she received the Citizen’s Legislative Award for her work on changing Virginia’s informed consent law. Professor Wilson is the past Chair of the Section on Family and Juvenile Law, as well as the Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care of the Association of American Law Schools.