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Education:
J.D., Stanford Law School
B.A., University of Wisconsin
Professor Gildin is recognized as one of the nation's
leading teachers of advocacy skills and is a leader
in the use of technology to assist instruction and
learning. In 1999 he received the Jacobson Award presented
annually to the outstanding teacher of trial advocacy.
In addition to developing and teaching a nationally-recognized
set of courses in advocacy, Professor Gildin has designed
a course on Civil Rights Litigation, for which he
has prepared a multi-disciplinary and multi-media
electronic coursebook, entitled Civil
Liberties Litigation. In addition to his
excellent course design and instructional work, Professor
Gildin is a noted scholar in the field of religious
liberty. His recent articles in the University
of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
have explored ways in which religious freedom might
be more extensively protected by state constitutions
than by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
As director of the Miller Center for Public Interest
Advocacy, Professor Gildin has been instrumental in
providing Penn State Dickinson students with many
opportunities to participate in public interest law
practice, including as interns during their legal
education. And Professor Gildin is not merely an excellent
teacher and scholar; he has served as an officer of the
American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and
of its South Central Pennsylvania chapter. His work
as counsel in civil liberties cases often affords
our students opportunities for observation or participation
in significant litigation.
Professor Gildin has received a Canada-Fulbright Award to spend the 2007-08 academic year as Visiting Chair of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.
Contact Information:
Email:
gsg2@psu.edu
Phone: (717) 240-5238
Public Interest Litigation
Selected Publications:
Book Chapters
"The Rise of State Law Sanctuary for Minority Religious Liberty in the Wake of the Fall of Federal Constitutional Protection of Non-Mainstream Faiths," in Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions, D. Odell-Scott, ed., Kent State University Press, 2004.
"Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State under Article I, Section 3" and "Religion and Qualification for Office under Article I, Section 4," in The Pennsylvania Constitution: A Treatise on Individual Rights and Liberties, George T. Bisel Company, 2004.
"Reality Programming Lessons for Twenty-First Century Trial Lawyering," Stetson Law Review, 2001.
Articles
"Bankruptcy Pro Bono Legal Assistance Programs: An Update" with P. C. Alexander, Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2007.
"Catalog of Pro Bono Bankruptcy Programs and Resources," (co-edited with P. C. Alexander under a grant from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Endowment for Education and the American College of Bankruptcy), 2007 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law 2007.
"The Sanctity of Religious Liberty of Minority Faiths Under State Constitutions: Three Hypotheses," University of Maryland Journal on Race, Religion, Gender and Class, 2006.
"Coda to William Penn's Overture: Safeguarding Non-Mainstream Religious Liberty Under the Pennsylvania Constitution," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 2001.
"A Blessing in Disguise: Protecting Minority Faiths Through State Religious Freedom Non-Restoration Acts," Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2000.
Book Reviews
Review of Ian Cram, Contested Words: Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democracies, London: Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
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