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Jessie Hill, JD
Jessie is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law. She joined the faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray, & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, Jessie worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Jessie's teaching focuses on constitutional law, civil rights, reproductive rights, and law and religion.
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Case Western Reserve University
Associate Dean, Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law
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Abortion debate creates 'new era' for state supreme court races in 2024, with big spending expected
The 2024 elections will be dominated by the presidential contest and the battle for control of Congress.
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Ohio Woman Who Miscarried Faces Charge That She Abused Corpse
In a case that has drawn international attention, a grand jury in Ohio is considering whether to indict a woman who miscarried at home and disposed of the nonviable fetus.
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Law's Jessie Hill discusses is appalled at pro-life advocates suggesting that doctors would harm patients for political reasons
Her miscarriage left her bleeding profusely. An Ohio ER sent her home to waitNPR:Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, suggested that it’s “appalling” to say that doctors would harm patients to advance a political agenda, as some pro-life advocates have suggested. “It is the classic move to stigmatize providers, to push […]
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“The state supreme court is going to be the ultimate arbiter of the meaning of the new constitutional amendment that the people voted for and organized around,” said Jessie Hill, law professor at Case Western Reserve University and a consultant for Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights. “That is a huge amount of power.”
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It is the classic move to stigmatize providers, to push this off on to them and suggest that they should understand the law the way a lawyer does, (and) walk all the way up to the line of what may or may not be legal.
