Associate Professor of Law
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
M.S., Rutgers University
J.D., Rutgers University School of Law - Camden
E-mail:
jefamily@widener.eduPhone: 717.541.3911
Jill E. Family is an Associate Professor of Law at Widener's Harrisburg campus and is also an Associate Director of the Law & Government Institute. At Widener, Professor Family teaches Administrative Law, Civil Procedure and Immigration Law. Her research focuses on immigration law and administrative law. During the spring of 2012, she will be a Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary School of Law in London, England.
The National Administrative Law Judiciary Foundation selected Professor Family as its 2010 Fellow. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center.
Professor Family is an active member of the American Bar Association. She is a member of the governing council of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, as well as a member of the advisory board to the Commission on Immigration. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Prior to joining the Widener faculty in 2005, Professor Family served as a law clerk to the Honorable Morton I. Greenberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Family also taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, practiced immigration law in the Philadelphia office of Dechert LLP and clerked for the Honorable Stephen M. Orlofsky of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Professor Family holds a degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania (cum laude) and a joint degree in public policy and law from Rutgers University (J.D. high honors). While at Rutgers, Professor Family served as an editor of the Rutgers Law Journal.Selected Recent Publications
- A Broader View of the U.S. Immigration Adjudication Problem, ___ Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law ___ ( forthcoming 2011) (United Kingdom; peer-reviewed).
- Murky Immigration Law and the Challenges Facing Immigration Removal and Benefits Adjudication, 31 J. Nat’l Ass’n Admin. L. Judiciary 45 (2011).
- Beyond Decisional Independence: Uncovering Contributors to the Immigration Adjudication Crisis, 59 U. Kan. L.R. 541 (2011).
- Conflicting Signals: Understanding US Immigration Reform through the Evolution of US Immigration Law, 40 Revista Catalana De Dret Public 145 [40 Catalan Journal of Public Law 145] (2010)
- A Broader View of the Immigration Adjudication Problem, 23 GEO. IMM. L.J. 595 (2009).
- Threats to the Future of the Immigration Class Action, 27 WASH. U. J.L. & POL'Y (2008).
- Stripping Judicial Review during Immigration Reform: The Certificate of Reviewability, 8 NEV. L.J. 499 (2008).