Professor West came to the Law Center from the University of Maryland Law School, where she taught from 1986-1991. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Stanford Law Schools. She also taught at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University, from 1982-1985. Professor West has written extensively on gender issues and feminist legal theory, constitutional law and theory, jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and law and literature.

Scholarship

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Robin L. West, Intentional Procreation, 23 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 7-30 (2021)(reviewing Dov Fox, Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law (2019)).
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Robin West, Consent, Legitimation, and Dysphoria, 83 Mod. L. Rev. 1-34 (2020).
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Robin West, Feminism, Law, and Hedonic Lives, 21 Geo. J. Gender & L. 551-555 (2020).
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Robin L. West, Tribute to Professor Oscar S. Gray, 79 Md. L. Rev. 1162-1163 (2020).
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Book Chapters & Collected Works

Robin West, Law’s Sentiments, in Research Handbook on Law and Emotion 44-60 (Susan A. Bandes, Jody Lyneé Madeira, Kathryn D. Temple & Emily Kidd White eds., Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar 2021).
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In The News
July 24, 2017

"Bipartisan Legislation Introduced To Increase Job Opportunities For Law School Grads," coverage by Above the Law, July 24, 2017, referencing Dean William Treanor and Professor Robin West. 

December 27, 2016

"Legal stars coming to UH Law School in January for free public events," coverage in UHM News, December 27, 2016, featuring Professor Robin West.

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