Harper Jean Tobin is a staff attorney for the Federal Rights Project. Her work includes maintaining the Project’s listserv and writing about court access issues for legal, policy and general audiences. She received degrees in law and social work from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She has been published in The Nation, The American Prospect, and Roll Call, and is a frequent contributor to the blog of the American Constitution Society. Prior to coming to NSCLC, her published writing included: Confronting Misinformation on Abortion: Informed Consent, Deference, and Fetal Pain, 17 Colum. J. Gender & L. 111 (2008), and Against the Surgical Requirement for Change of Legal Sex, 38 Case W. Res. J. Int’l L. 393 (2007).