ROBERT J. Reilly is the assistant dean for the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham University School of Law.
After a career in corporate law at Transamerica Corporation, he returned to Fordham, where he had received both undergraduate and law degrees. He has been involved in the administration of the school for over 25 years.
For four seasons he served as the host of the cable television program Ask the Lawyer.
A former president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in New York, Reilly was a contributing author to The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America.  Reilly is also a member of the New York Irish History Roundtable and the American Irish Historical Society.
He was involved in organizing the Fordham Law School Northern Ireland Mediation program.
A fifth-generation Irish American, he is married to the former Mary Jane Conlon and has three sons, John, Benedict and Michael.
 

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