Gary S. Gildin
Hon. G. Thomas and Anne G. Miller Chair in Advocacy;
Director, Center for Public Interest Law and Advocacy; Professor of Law

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 Liberties 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 and remedies for constitutional violations. 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 Center for Public Interest Law and Advocacy, Professor Gildin has been instrumental in providing Penn State Law 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 used 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:
E-mail: gsg2@psu.edu
Phone: (717) 240-5238
Principal Office: Carlisle
Curriculum Vitae

Public Interest Litigation 

Selected Publications:

Cross-Examination at Trial: Strategies for the Deposition, 35 American Journal of Trial Advocacy ___ (2012)

Redressing Deprivations of Rights Secured by State Constitutions Outside the Shadow of the Supreme Court’s Remedies Jurisprudence, 115 Penn St. L. Rev. 877 (2011).

The Supreme Court's Legislative Agenda to Free Government from Accountability for Constitutional Deprivations, 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 1333 (2010).  

"Strip Searches and the Silo Effect: Adopting a Holistic Approach to Charter Remedies," in Taking Remedies Seriously (2009). 

Allocating Damages Caused by Violations of the Charter: The Relevance of American Constitutional Remedies Jurisprudence, 24 Nat'l J. Const. L. 121 (2009).