Distinguished Professor of Law
Alicia Kelly, a Distinguished Professor of Law at the Delaware Law School of Widener University, is an expert in Family Law, Property Law and Elder Law. Professor Kelly’s scholarship focuses on family relationships, economic behavior, inequality, and gender. Her work addresses laws and policies concerning economic relations laws for married and unmarried couples, as well as for inter-generational family relationships, including the elder care system.
Innovation in legal education is another area of expertise. Professor Kelly’s core teaching areas are Family Law, Property Law, Wills and Trusts, Elder Law and a seminar on Money, Intimacy & Law. Professor Kelly is co-author of two new textbooks that draw on best practices for legal education and weave in real world lawyering problems and documents, as well as policy questions that impact the law’s development. Chartacourse Family Law: Cases, Policies, and Practices (2015) (with John Culhane) is an entirely web-based textbook that organizes Family Law around a chart or map of topics. She is also co-authoring Property Law: Context and Practice (with Nancy Knauer) (part of a peer edited series by Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2016).
Professor Kelly has engaged in a range of leadership, scholarly and service activities. She has published numerous articles in law reviews, spoken in many academic and public settings, organized symposia and academic conferences, and served in organizational leadership roles.
Currently, Professor Kelly serves as co-director of the Family Health Law & Policy Institute at Widener Law Delaware that is dedicated to public education and service, and to reforming laws and policies that concern families and their health. She serves on the steering committee for Delaware ERA Now, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing women’s status through education and anti-discrimination advocacy. Additionally, Professor Kelly is the co-director of Wills for Heroes DE, a volunteer organization that trains legal professionals and provides free estate planning documents for police, firemen and other first responders in the state of Delaware. She continues to serve on the executive board of Association of American Law Schools Section on Family & Juvenile Law, following a term as section Chair in 2010-2011. Professor Kelly is also member of the Executive Committee for the Section on Women and Legal Education, a Collaborative Research Network for Law & Aging as well as a CRN for Feminist Legal Theory.
Professor Kelly holds an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University School of Law, where she was an Abraham L. Freedman Fellow and Lecturer of Law, and also earned her B.A. (magna cum laude) and her J.D. (cum laude) from Temple University. Prior to joining Widener, she was an assistant professor at Western State University College of Law. She also has held appointments as a visiting professor and an adjunct professor at other law schools. Before her academic career, Professor Kelly was in private practice concentrating on complex domestic relations and general civil litigation. She is a trained mediator. During law school she was a law clerk for the Honorable Judge William F. Hall in the Federal District Court, 3rd Circuit. Professor Kelly is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Colorado.
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About Alicia B. Kelly
Alicia Kelly, a Distinguished Professor of Law at the Delaware Law School of Widener University, is an expert in Family Law, Property Law and Elder Law. Professor Kelly’s scholarship focuses on family relationships, economic behavior, inequality, and gender. Her work addresses laws and policies concerning economic relations laws for married and unmarried couples, as well as for inter-generational family relationships, including the elder care system.
Innovation in legal education is another area of expertise. Professor Kelly’s core teaching areas are Family Law, Property Law, Wills and Trusts, Elder Law and a seminar on Money, Intimacy & Law. Professor Kelly is co-author of two new textbooks that draw on best practices for legal education and weave in real world lawyering problems and documents, as well as policy questions that impact the law’s development. Chartacourse Family Law: Cases, Policies, and Practices (2015) (with John Culhane) is an entirely web-based textbook that organizes Family Law around a chart or map of topics. She is also co-authoring Property Law: Context and Practice (with Nancy Knauer) (part of a peer edited series by Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2016).
Professor Kelly has engaged in a range of leadership, scholarly and service activities. She has published numerous articles in law reviews, spoken in many academic and public settings, organized symposia and academic conferences, and served in organizational leadership roles.
Currently, Professor Kelly serves as co-director of the Family Health Law & Policy Institute at Widener Law Delaware that is dedicated to public education and service, and to reforming laws and policies that concern families and their health. She serves on the steering committee for Delaware ERA Now, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing women’s status through education and anti-discrimination advocacy. Additionally, Professor Kelly is the co-director of Wills for Heroes DE, a volunteer organization that trains legal professionals and provides free estate planning documents for police, firemen and other first responders in the state of Delaware. She continues to serve on the executive board of Association of American Law Schools Section on Family & Juvenile Law, following a term as section Chair in 2010-2011. Professor Kelly is also member of the Executive Committee for the Section on Women and Legal Education, a Collaborative Research Network for Law & Aging as well as a CRN for Feminist Legal Theory.
Professor Kelly holds an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University School of Law, where she was an Abraham L. Freedman Fellow and Lecturer of Law, and also earned her B.A. (magna cum laude) and her J.D. (cum laude) from Temple University. Prior to joining Widener, she was an assistant professor at Western State University College of Law. She also has held appointments as a visiting professor and an adjunct professor at other law schools. Before her academic career, Professor Kelly was in private practice concentrating on complex domestic relations and general civil litigation. She is a trained mediator. During law school she was a law clerk for the Honorable Judge William F. Hall in the Federal District Court, 3rd Circuit. Professor Kelly is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Colorado.
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