Stephen G. Gilles

Stephen G. Gilles received his B.A. from St. John’s College (Annapolis) and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he began his teaching career in 1989.  He was Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law from 1995 until taking Emeritus status in 2024.  His research interests center on the legal and constitutional rights of parents and children (born and unborn), especially regarding education, abortion and IVF. 

Stephen G. Gilles.

Stephen G. Gilles

Working Group

  • Research Ethics

Selected Publications

  • Federal Free Exercise Challenges to Restrictive Abortion Laws, 37 Regent U.L. Rev. 219 (2025)
  • What Does Dobbs Mean for the Constitutional Right to a Life-or-Health Preserving Abortion, 92 Miss. L.J. 271 (2023)
  • Reasoned Judgment and Physician-Assisted Suicide, 15 Ave Maria L. Rev. 96 (2017)
  • Does the Right to Elective Abortion Include the Right to Ensure the Death of the Fetus?, 49 U.Rich. L. Rev. 1009 (2015)