Robin Fretwell Wilson

Publications

SSRN Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Books, including monographs and treatises

Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context (Aspen Publishers, 2009). (with Sandra Johnson, Joan Krause and Richard Savor)

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts (Roman & Littlefield Pub. 2008).  (with Robin Fretwell Wilson, Douglas Laycock, and Anthony R. Picarello, Jr. eds.)

Handbook Of Children, Culture & Violence (Nancy Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Sage Press, 2006).

Reconceiving the Family: Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Book Chapters

Keeping Women in Business (and Family) forthcoming in Rethinking Business Management (Samuel Gregg and James R. Stoner, Jr., eds., Princeton, 2008).

Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not the Child, in Handbook Of Children, Culture & Violence (Nancy Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Sage Press, 2006).

Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute's Treatment of De Facto Parents, in Reconceiving the Family: Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

The Calculus of Accommodation: Contraception, Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage, and Other Clashes Between Religion and the State, 53 B.C. L. Rev. 1417 (2012).

Empowering Private Protection of Conscience, 9 Ave Maria L. Rev. 101 (1010)(Symposium: The Future Rights of Conscience in Health Care: Legal and Ethical Perspectives).

Trusting Mothers: A Critique of the American Law Institute's Treatment of De Facto Parents, 38 Hofstra L. Rev. 1103 (2010).

Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion, 18 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 925 (2010) (Symposium: Families, Fundamentalism, & the First Amendment).

Insubstantial Burdens: The Case for Government Employee Exemptions to Same-Sex Marriage Laws, 5 NW J. L. & Soc. Pol'y 318 (2010).

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research, 36 Am. J.L. & Med. 295 (2010). 

Sex Play in Virtual Worlds 66, Wash & Lee L. Rev. 1127 (2009).

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Life after Prop 8, 14 Nexus: Chap. J. L. & Pol'y 101 (2009).

Beyond the Bounds of Decency: Why Fault Continues to Matter to (Some) Wronged Spouses, 66 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 503 (2009). 

American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, Eight Years After Adoption: Guiding Principle or Obligatory Footnote?, 42 Fam. L.Q. 573 (2008). (with Michael Clisham)

"Unauthorized Practice": Regulating the Use of Anesthetized, Recently Deceased, and Conscious Patients in Medical Teaching, 44 Idaho L. Rev. 432 (2008). (Available at: Westlaw)

The Overlooked Costs of Religious Deference, 64(4) Washington & Lee Law Review 1363 (2008).

“Blind Trust: The American Law Institute’s Proposed Treatment of De Facto Parents,” in Pravni Zivot (Legal Life) No.10 (Association of the Jurists of Serbia, Belgrade Serbia, 2007).

Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns, 34:4 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 704 (Winter 2006).

Autonomy Suspended: Using Female Patients to Teach Intimate Exams Without Their Knowledge or Consent, 8(2) Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 240 (2005).

Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Children?, 42(3) San Diego Law Review 847 (2005).

The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim's Siblings, 51(1) Emory Law Journal 241 (2002).

Children at Risk: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children After Divorce, 86(2) Cornell Law Review 251 (2001).

Hospital Ethics Committees as the Forum of Last Resort: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come, 76(2) North Carolina Law Review 353 (1998).