Eve L. Hill
Exec. Director,
Disability Rights Legal Center and Visiting Associate Professor of
Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1195
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: eve.hill@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, magna cum laude, Sweet Briar College
JD, cum laude, Cornell Law School
Professor Hill is the Executive Director of the Disability Rights Legal Center, a national non-profit disability rights advocacy group located on the campus of Loyola Law School and hosting Loyola Law School law student externs. Professor Hill is a nationally recognized disability rights expert, advocate, mediator, teacher, and author. Before joining the Center in 1998, Professor Hill was supervisory attorney in the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice, where she worked on national implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act through enforcement, mediation, and building code certification. Prior to that, she was an attorney with Pierson Semmes & Bemis, (also in Washington, DC) and a volunteer mediator with the District of Columbia Superior Court.
Professional Memberships and Activities
State Bar of California Council on Access and Fairness
Chancery Club
Co-Chair, U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board Courthouse Access Advisory Committee
Commissioner, American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Board of Governors
"Cases & Materials on Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy," Thomson-West Group, co-authors Peter Blanck, Charles Siegal, Michael Waterstone
Co-Author, "Challenging Barriers," Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, November 2005
"Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy," Thomson-West Group, co-authors Peter Blanck, Charles Siegal, Michael Waterstone, January 2004
"Supreme Court Continues to Limit Federal Disability Rights Law," Advocate, the Journal of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Southern California, Vol. 29, No. 8 (October 2002)
"Alternative Dispute Resolution in a Feminist Voice," 5 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 337 (1990)
Disability Rights