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Kerry Tripp

Kerry Weil Tripp

Principal Lecturer, Family Science

Kerry Weil Tripp is a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School and practiced law in San Francisco and Baltimore. Her research looks at family law and public health issues through a legal lens. She teaches graduate and undergraduate law classes, including a study abroad in Havana, Cuba, and an international comparative law and policy class on ethical issues in Assisted Reproduction Technologies with students in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil.

Contact

ktripp@umd.edu

SPH | Room: 1142Q

(301) 405-0351

Departments/Units

Areas of Interest

Core Faculty

Family Law; International Public Health Law in Brazil; International Public Health law in Cuba; Mediation; Assisted Reproduction Technology Ethical and Policy Issues

Kerry Weil Tripp is a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School and practiced law in San Francisco and Baltimore. Her research looks at family law and public health issues through a legal lens. Here most recent book, "Family Law for Non-Lawyers," Third Edition, Cognella Academic Publishing, 2020, includes a chapter on the impacts of COVID-19 on family law. An earlier edition of the book was rated number one in the Four Best Family Law Books for Beginners and number 10 of the 31 Best Family Law Books of all time by BookAuthority in 2020.

Dr. Tripp teaches graduate and undergraduate law classes, including a study abroad in Havana, Cuba, and an international comparative law and policy class on ethical issues in Assisted Reproduction Technologies with students in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil.

J.D., 1985

University of Notre Dame Law School

FMSC 186 Law and Ethics in Assisted Reproduction Technology (Freshman Connection)

FMSC 215 Foster Care and Adoption; Law, Policy, and Family (STICs course)

FMSC 286 Assisted Reproduction Law and Policy in the US and Brazil (GCI course with Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

FMSC 487 Family Law (major required)

FMSC 486 Law, Public Health and the Cuban Family

FMSC 686 Law, Public Health and the Cuban Family

FMSC 498M Mediation and Negotiation

FMSC 647 Theory and Techniques of Family Mediation

FMSC 760 Legal Issues & Family

FMSC 399 Special Topics, Independent Study

FMSC 498 Advanced Independent Study

SPHL 399 Academic Peer Teaching and Mentoring

FMSC 498H Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis

Faculty Service Award for UMD’s President’s Commission on Disability Issues, 2019

UMD Global Classrooms Initiative Grant and Fellowship, 2019

TLTC, Learning Community Scholar, Online Course Development, 2019

TLTC, UMD Elevate Fellow, Course Redesign and Instructional Best Practices, 2018

Office of Undergraduate Education, UMD Fellow, Academic Integrity

Tripp, K. Family Law for Non-Lawyers, Third Edition, Cognella Academic Publishing, 201, 2020

Tripp, K. Family Law for Non-Lawyers, Second Edition, Cognella Academic Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-1516515394 (4 Star Rating on Amazon)

Tripp, K. Family Law for Non-Lawyers, Revised First Edition, Cognella Academic Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1634870290

Tripp, K. Family Law for Non-Lawyers, First Edition, Cognella Academic Publishing, Inc. 2014, 10: 1634870298

Tripp, K. Law and Ethics and Assisted Reproduction Technologies, Cognella Academic Publishing, 2020

Tripp, K. Law and Ethics and Assisted Reproduction Technologies, Cognella Academic Publishing, 2019.

Tripp, K. Foster Care and Adoption; Law, Policy & Family-Cognella Academic Publishing, 2020 (in process).