Linda A. Kelly-Hill
M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law - 2006
Linda Kelly Hill is the M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indianapolis. Professor Kelly Hill received a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1988 and a J.D. from U.Va.'s School of Law in 1992. Professor Kelly Hill joined IU in 2002. She was awarded a Grimes Fellowship in 2005 and 2006.
At IU, Indianapolis, Professor Kelly Hill teaches Conflicts of Law, Family Law, Immigration Law, and Trusts and Estates. Consistent with her teaching, Professor Kelly Hill's scholarship focuses upon how traditional norms regarding family and gender roles have influenced numerous discrete areas of law. Her scholarship regularly explores how such norms affect such legal areas as immigration, domestic violence, sexual harassment and probate. In 2006, Professor Kelly Hill also began an immigration clinic at IU, Indianapolis. Through the work of IU's upper level J.D. and L.L.M. students, the Immigration Clinic is providing pro bono legal representation to Indianapolis' indigent immigrant community.