Office Details
Administrative Assistant: Stephanie Lee, 410.837.5705
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 412
Co-Director, Center on Applied Feminism
Director, Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic
Education
J.D., University of Michigan
B.A., Duke University
Areas of Expertise
Privacy Law
Civil Advocacy
Evidence
Law and Poverty
Administrative Law
Feminist Legal Theory
Biography
Before joining the faculty, Gilman was a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice; an associate at Arnold and Porter in Washington, D.C.; a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Frank A. Kaufman of the District of Maryland; and an editor of the Michigan Law Review. Her scholarship focuses on issues relating to poverty, technology, privacy, and feminist legal theory, and her articles have been published in the California Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, and the Fordham Law Review, among many others. She regularly writes for and speaks to the media about data privacy issues impacting marginalized communities.
Gilman directs the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic, in which student-attorneys represent individuals and community groups in a wide array of civil litigation and law reform projects. She also teaches Evidence, Administrative Law, and Poverty Law. In 2009, she received the award for Outstanding Teaching by a Full-Time Faculty Member. Gilman was a faculty fellow at Data & Society in New York during the 2019-2020 academic year. She focused on the intersection of data privacy law with the concerns of low-income communities. In the 2023-2024 academic year, she was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law School, where she served as the Acting Director of the Communications and Technology Law Clinic.
She is involved in numerous groups working on behalf of low-income Marylanders. She is the past president of the board of the Public Justice Center, where she served from 2004-2014, as well as a past member of the Maryland Bar's Section Council on Delivery of Legal Services, the Committee on Litigation and Legal Priorities of the ACLU of Maryland, and the Judicial Selection Committee of the Women's Law Center. She received the 2010 University System of Maryland Board of Regents' Award for Public Service.
Gilman is the former co-chair and a member of the Scholarship Committee of the AALS Clinical Legal Education Section, and a former editor of the Clinical Law Review and the Journal of Legal Education. She is also a co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism, which works to apply the insights of feminist legal theory to legal practice and policy. She is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars.
Becoming a Trial Lawyer, with Steven Grossman and Fredric Lederer (Carolina Academic Press 2008).
The Relevance and Prejudice of Poverty Evidence, in Critical Evidence (I. Bennett Capers, Jasmine Harris & Julia Simon-Kerr, eds. forthcoming Cambridge U. Press 2026).
Feminism, Privacy & Law in Cyberspace, in The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States (Martha Chamallas, Deborah Brake & Verna Williams eds., Oxford U. Press, 2022).
Commentary on Wyman v. James, in Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten (Kimberly Mutcherson, ed., Cambridge U. Press 2020).
The Difference in Being Poor in Red States versus Blue States, in Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty (Ezra Rosser, ed., Cambridge U. Press, 2019).
Wyman v. James: Privacy as a Luxury Not for the Poor, in The Poverty Law Canon (Ezra Rosser & Marie Failinger, eds., Univ. of Michigan Press 2016).
The Impact of Proptech and the Datafication of Real Estate on the Human Right to Housing, 9 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 444 (2025).
Ten Empowering Strategies for Non-Directive Clinical Supervision, 31 Clinical L. Rev. 211 (2024).
Democratizing AI: Principles for Meaningful Public Participation, Data & Society Research Report (2023).
Beyond Window Dressing: Public Participation for Marginalized Communities in the Datafied Society, 91 Fordham L. Rev. 503 (2022).
Me, Myself and My Digital Double: Extending Sara Greene’s Stealing (Identity) from the Poor to the Challenges of Identity Verification, 106 Minn. L. Rev. Headnotes 301 (2022).
Expanding Civil Rights to Combat Digital Discrimination on the Basis of Poverty, 75 SMU L. Rev. 571 (2022) (symposium on AI, Algorithms and Inequality).
Periods for Profit and the Rise of Menstrual Surveillance, 41 Colum. J. Gender & Law 100 (2021).
Digital Barriers to Economic Justice in the Wake of COVID-19 (with Mary Madden), Data & Society (April 21, 2021).
Five Privacy Principles (from the GDPR) the United States Should Adopt to Advance Economic Justice, 52 Ariz. State L.J. 368 (2020).
Poverty Lawgorithms: A Poverty Lawyer’s Guide to Fighting the Harms of Automated Decision-Making on Low-Income Communities, Data & Society Research Report (2020).
The Future of Clinical Legal Scholarship, 26 Clinical L. Rev. 189 (2019).
The Surveillance Gap: The Harms of Extreme Privacy and Data Marginalization (with Rebecca Green), 42 NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change 253 (2018).
Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans (with Mary Madden, Karen Levy & Alice Marwick), 95 Wash. U. L. Rev. 53 (2017).
En-Gendering Economic Inequality, 32.1 Columbia J. of L. & Gender 1 (2016).
A Court for the One Percent: How the Supreme Court Contributes to Economic Inequality, 2014 Utah L. Rev. 389 (2014).
Feminism, Democracy, and the "War on Women," 32 J. of Law & Inequality 1 (2014).
The Return of the Welfare Queen, 22 J. of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 247 (2014) (symposium).
The Poverty Defense, 47 U. Rich. L. Rev. 495 (2013).
The Class Differential in Privacy Law, 77 Brook. L. Rev.1389 (2012).
Quoted, Stephanie Kalina-Metzger, Legal Experts Address the Question of Who Should Pay When AI Goes Wrong, Daily Record, Aug. 18, 2025.
Video interview, The Intersection Between Surveillance and Reproductive Justice: A Conversation with Michele Gilman, Our Bodies, Ourselves, March 1, 2025.
Quoted, Madeleine O’Neill, Baltimore’s Opioid Trial Could Hinge on Highly Paid Expert Witnesses, The Baltimore Banner, Nov. 11, 2024.
Quoted, Hallie Miller, Tenants Ask Court if Unlicensed Landlords, Property Manager are Committing Fraud, The Baltimore Banner, Oct. 21, 2024.
Quoted, Rachel Konieczny, How Maryland Law Schools Approach AI in Curriculum, Research, Daily Record, Aug. 21, 2024.
Quoted, Sam Janesch, Tighter Security for SNAP Benefits Pursued as Maryland Sees $26M in Fraud, Baltimore Sun, June 1, 2024.
Quoted, Dorothy Atkins, “Much More is Coming”: Experts See Wave of AI Related Lawsuits, Law360, April 12, 2024.
Quoted, Dwight Weingarten, Maryland Legislature Considers Online Privacy Bill, Herald Mail, March 4, 2024.
Quoted, Aitana Vargas, Big Data at School, Palabra, Sept. 23, 2023.
Quoted, Joseph Cox, Inside Shadow Dragon, The Tool That Lets Ice Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players, 404 Media, Sept. 18, 2023.
Quoted, Kristin Poli, The Most Popular Digital Abortion Clinics: Ranked by Data Privacy, Wired, August 21, 2023.
Interview, The Power of AI, Meet the Press Reports, NBC, May 14, 2023.
Quoted, Khari Johnson, Algorithms Allegedly Penalized Black Renters. The U.S. Government is Watching, Wired, Jan. 23, 2023.
Guest, Kim Dacey, Expert Says Recent Rulings from SCOTUS is Changing Course of American Law, WBAL-TV, June 27, 2022.
Quoted, No, the Right to an Abortion is Not Explicitly in Maryland’s Constitution, Verify WUSA-9, May 12, 2022.
Quoted, Maressa Brown, What to Know About Period Trackers and the Information They Share, Parents, May 9, 2022.
Quoted, Jeremy Loudenback, The Foster Care System Turns to Big Data: Promising or Profiling?, The Imprint, Feb. 1, 2022.
Quoted, Bryan Renbaum, Gansler: SCOTUS Likely to Chip Away at Reproductive Rights in Mississippi Case, Maryland Reporter, Nov. 29, 2021.
Guest, What’s Going On? with Rebecca Myles, EU's Flawed Artificial Intelligence Regulation, WBAI Pacifica Radio 99.5, Nov. 10, 2021