Gary Gildin

Professor Gary S. Gildin holds the Hon. G. Thomas and Anne G. Miller Chair in Advocacy and directs the Miller Center for Public Interest Advocacy at the Dickinson School of Law of Penn State University.

Gildin is also 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.

Recognized as one of the nation's leading teachers of advocacy skills and a leader in the use of technology to assist instruction and learning, Professor Gildin earned the B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and the J.D. from Stanford Law School. 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, he has designed a course on Civil Rights Litigation, for which he has prepared a multi-disciplinary and multi-media electronic course book.

As director of the Miller Center for Public Interest Advocacy, Gildin has been instrumental in providing Penn State Dickinson students with many opportunities to participate in public interest law practice, including internships during their legal education. Gildin is also an officer of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and of its South Central Pennsylvania chapter and his work as counsel in civil liberties cases often affords students opportunities for observation or participation in significant litigation.


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