Research Interests

Constitutional Law and Theory
Civil Procedure (class actions and arbitration)
Sex and Race Equality
Employment Standards and Globalization

Subjects Taught

The Law of Work in the Global Economy (Fall)
Transnational Law Colloquium -- coordinator (Fall and Spring)

Brief Bio

After serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Professor Pillard held the Marvin M. Karpatkin fellowship at the ACLU and then worked for several years at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. She joined the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Solicitor General as Assistant to the Solicitor General in 1994 where she served until 1997 when she joined the faculty at Georgetown. She has litigated numerous cases, including more than twenty that she has briefed and six that she has argued before the Supreme Court. In 1998-2000, Professor Pillard took leave from the Law Center to work in the Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel. She returned to teaching in the summer of 2000.

Representative Publications

Book Chapters

1. A United States Perspective on Classwide Arbitration, in La Justice en March:  Du Recours Collectif à l’Arbitrage Collectif (2007).

United States v. Virginia:  The Virginia Military Institute, Where the Men are Men (and so are the Women), in Myriam Gilles & Risa Goluboff, Civil Rights Stories (Foundation, 2007).

2. The Human Right to Sex Equality at the Work-Family Fault Line, in Samantha Besson, Michel Hottelier and Franz Werro, Les droits de l'homme au centre - Human rights recentred (Schulthess, Zurich 2006)

Articles

1. Our Other Reproductive Choices:  Equality in Sex Education, Contraceptive Access, and Work-Family Policy, 56 Emory Law Journal, Iss. 4; p.941 (2007)

2. Women as Supreme Court Advocates, 26 Sup. Ct. Hist. Soc. Q. 4 at 10 (2005), and 27 Sup. Ct. Hist. Soc. Q 1 at 10 (2006).

3. Unitariness and Myopia:  The Executive Branch, Legal Process and Torture,  81 Ind. L. J. 1297 (2006).

4. Plenary Power Underground in Nguyen v. INS: A Response to Professor Spiro, 16 Geo. Imm. L. J. 835 (2002).