Kerry Weil Tripp
Principal Lecturer, Family Science
ktripp@umd.edu (301) 405-0351SPH | Room: 1142Q
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.
Department Information
- Department of 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. 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.
Family Law; International Public Health Law in Brazil; International Public Health law in Cuba; Mediation; Assisted Reproduction Technology Ethical and Policy Issues
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
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
J.D., 1985
University of Notre Dame Law School
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).