Priscilla (Cilla) Smith is a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at the Yale Law School where she will be working on a project to shift and expand the dialogue around reproductive rights issues in the legal academy, with an additional focus on information policy and access to knowledge. Cilla served as the Director of the Domestic Legal Program of the Center for Reproductive Rights (“the Center”) from 2003-2007 and was a litigating attorney with the Center for 13 years overall. Cilla litigated cases nationwide, most notably arguing two cases in the United States Supreme Court, Gonzales v. Carhart, 127 S.Ct. 1610 (2007), and Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2001). She is the author of “Partial-Birth Abortions,” the American Federal Courts and a Woman's Constitutional Right to Abortion, 1 Journal of Women's Health and Law 125 (April 2000), and developed, edited and published the first edition of What if Roe Fell?, the Center’s report examining the impact of a reversal of Roe v. Wade in all 50 states. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991 and B.A. from Yale College in 1984.
