Katherine Franke,
Professor of Law and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Program, is a
well-known scholar of feminism, sexuality & race. She has just
completed a book entitled Emancipation Proclamation. In addition to her Gender
Justice course, she co-directs the Feminist Theory Workshop and teaches Civil
Rights Law and Critical Legal Thought.
Suzanne Goldberg,
a Professor of Law, Director of the Gender and Sexuality Program, and Director
of the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, is an expert in sexuality and gender
law. Before joining the Columbia law faculty she ran the Women’s Rights Clinic
at Rutgers Law School and served as a senior staff attorney at Lambda Legal
Defense. Professor Goldberg was co-counsel in Lawrence v. Texas and Romer v.
Evans and co-authored Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial.
Carol Sanger
is the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law and is a widely respected
scholar in the areas of family law, the regulation of maternal conduct and
technologies of motherhood. Her recent research focuses on infant safe haven
laws, and the use and abuse of sonograms to determine fetal sex and as a coercive
tool to steer women away from having abortions.
Ariela Dubler
is a Professor of Law who specializes in the legal history of motherhood,
marriage and the family. Her work has focused on the ways marriage laws have
regulated unmarried women, how marriage has been used to “cure” the immorality
of women who have sex outside of marriage, and the way marriage has figured in
movements for racial and sexual orientation-based justice.
Elizabeth Scott
is the Harold R. Medina Professor of Law and is an expert in juvenile justice,
children and the law and family law. Her research applies behavioral economics,
social science research, and developmental theory to family/juvenile law and
policy issues. Her work on juvenile justice has been cited by numerous courts.
Elizabeth Emens
is an Associate Professor of Law whose work examines the intersection of
sexuality, gender and disability law. She has researched why public norms
against gender and disability discrimination are not considered to apply in the
private/intimate sphere; the history of name changing by married women; and the
importance of polyamory/polygamy to strategies for gender and sexuality based
justice.
Susan Sturm is
the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Columbia Law
School and co-director of Columbia’s Center for Institutional and Social Change.
Her work addressing structural inequality in higher education and employment is
widely cited and keeps her on the cutting edge of academic inquiry and law
reform efforts related to discrimination and conflict resolution.
Patricia Williams,
the James L. Dohr Professor of Law, is a columnist for The Nation and a national
commentator on race and gender. Her books include The Alchemy of Race and Rights
and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She regularly co-directs
Columbia’s Feminist Legal Theory Workshop.
Kendall Thomas
is the Nash Professor Law and directs the Center for the Study of Law and
Culture. A founder of the Critical Race Theory movement in the U.S. legal
academy, his expertise lies in race and the law, sexuality studies, gender
studies, human rights and the questions of culture and the interdisciplinary
study of law more generally.
Jane Spinak,
the Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, is director of Columbia’s
Child Advocacy Clinic, which represents foster children in family court
proceedings. She has authored numerous books and articles on child welfare and
family court matters for child advocates, judges, and scholars. Prof. Spinak was
Attorney-in-Charge of the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society in
New York City.
Kimberlé Crenshaw,
Professor of Law and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum,
reshaped the field of feminist legal theory with her insights into the ways that
the law has disregarded the intersection of race and sex-based harms. She writes
widely in civil rights, critical race studies, and constitutional law.