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. Professor Family is currently studying immigration adjudication, including both administrative procedure and the role of the federal courts. She is currently the Chair of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
Professor Family joined the Widener faculty in 2005 after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Morton I. Greenberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Family 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 Immigration Adjudication Problem, 23 GEO. IMM. L.J. (forthcoming 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).