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Adele M. MorrisonAdele M. Morrison
Associate Professor of Law

B.A., San Francisco State University
J.D., Stanford Law School
LL.M., University of Wisconsin Law School

 

 

Email: amorrison@niu.edu
Phone: (815)753-7231
Room: 196A

Biography

Adele M. Morrison comes to the Northern Illinois University College of Law from the University of Wisconsin Law School where she was a Remington-Hastie Fellow. This fellowship, which leads to an LL.M degree, included working as a Clinical Instructor/Supervising Attorney with the Frank J. Remington Center's, Legal Assistance for Institutionalized Person's Clinic and Neighborhood Law Project. Professor Morrison has conducted research, practiced, and teaches in the areas of family, domestic violence, sexuality, public interest and poverty law.

 

Articles

  • Same-Sex Loving: Subverting White Supremacy Through Same-Sex Marriage, 13 Mich. J. Race & L. 177 (2007).
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  • Changing the Domestic Violence (Dis)course: Moving Away from White Victim to Multi-cultural Survivor, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1061 (2006).
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  • Queering Domestic Violence to "Straighten Out" Criminal Law: What Might Happen When Queer Theory and Practice Meet Criminal Law's Conventional Responses to Domestic Violence, 13 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women's Stud. 81 (2003).
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Areas of Expertise

Domestic Violence, Poverty Law, Family Law, Sexuality & Gender, Queer Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Legal Theory