Professor Jill Wieber Lens joined the faculty in 2018. She teaches and writes in the areas of tort law, products liability, and remedies. Her current research focuses on tort law’s recognition of stillbirth. She has also published extensively on tort remedies, mainly punitive damages. Her work has appeared in the Florida State University Law Review, the Utah Law Review, and the BYU Law Review, and has been cited by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She has also been quoted in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

Professor Lens received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with honors in political science and the liberal arts. She received her J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law, where she received an Award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement and graduated Order of the Coif. She also served as Note & Comment Editor of the Iowa Law Review. Before joining the University of Arkansas, Professor Lens was a Professor of Law at Baylor University School of Law. Before entering academia, she practiced commercial and appellate litigation in St. Louis, Missouri.