ASSOCIATE FACULTY

N.E.H. Hull
( B.A. Ohio State University; M.A, Ph.D., Columbia University, J.D., University of Georgia)

Professor Hull is Professor II in Law and a member of the Graduate Faculty of Arts & Sciences in History. She received her B.A. summa cum laude with high honors in 1974 from Ohio State University and was awarded her Ph.D. in history in 1981 from Columbia University, where her master's thesis, "Impeachment in the American Colonies," was given the prestigious Sons of the American Revolution-Columbia University Prize in early American history. In 1985 she earned her J.D. cum laude from the University of Georgia, where she served on the editorial board of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and was awarded the Gilmore Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Study of Labor Law. Professor Hull has held an American Bar Foundation Fellowship for the study of legal history, a Rutgers University Henry Rutgers Research Fellowship, a Rutgers Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Fellowship, and research grants from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1986-1987 she held a resident fellowship at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University.

She has taught in the Political Science Department at the University of Georgia and in the History Department and Women's Studies Program at Vanderbilt University. Admitted to the Bar in Georgia, she had a sole practice in that state. For two years she served as YLD liaison to the American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, and she coauthored A Guide to Guardianship Proceedings: A Primer for Attorneys.

Professor Hull has most recently published  Roscoe Pound & Karl Llewellyn: Searching for An American Jurisprudence (winner of the Scribes Book Award), and is coauthor of Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History and The Abortion Rights Controversy in America: A Legal Reader.  She is also co-editor of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society book series published by the University Press of Kansas.  She was also one of the editors of the Oxford Companion to American Law.

She has also been consulted by local and national media on issues related to impeachment, Elder Law, and infanticide.  Her coauthored book Impeachment in America was a major source for the Congress and Senate (and cited in their hearings, website and official reports) in the impeachment proceedings against President William Jefferson Clinton. She has given numerous talks to public groups about Advance Directives for Healthcare and other Elder Law topics