Clinical Professor and Codirector of the Pro Bono Research Project. Professor Ricks earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she cofounded the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After clerking from 1990-92 for the Hon. Thomas N. O'Neill Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, she joined Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz as a litigation associate. From 1995 to 2001, she was an appellate and legislative attorney for the Philadelphia Law Department, where she litigated dozens of federal and state appeals, including arguments before the Third Circuit Court. In 2009, she was elected to the American Law Institute; was appointed by the mayor of Philadelphia to be a commissioner on the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission, the agency that enforces City antidiscrimination laws; and was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Ricks is a board member of the Women's Law Project (2005-10). Her forthcoming casebook, Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation: Roles of the Courts, Attorneys, and Administrators, is part of the Context and Practice Casebook Series. Her articles on civil rights and federal procedure have been published by Washington Law Review, Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy, The Legal Intelligencer, andPennsylvania Lawyer. Her articles on teaching have appeared in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Toledo Law Review, Perspectives, Journal of Legal Education, The Law Teacher, and Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors.