Elizabeth F. Emens

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birth_date = July 19, 1972
birth_place = Columbus, Ohio, USA
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field = Law
work_institutions = University of Chicago Law School
Columbia Law School
alma_mater = Yale University
Kings College, University of Cambridge
Yale Law School
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known_for = Anti-discrimination law, Law and sexuality
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Elizabeth F. Emens (born July 19, 1972, Columbus, Ohio) is a legal scholar and currently an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University. She specializes in anti-discrimination law, law and sexuality, family law, disability law, and contract law. [ [http://www.martindale.com/xp/legal/Professional_Resources/Law_Schools/schl0178.xml Law School Profile on Martindale.com] ]

Emens graduated "summa cum laude" from Yale University in 1994 with a B.A. in English and psychology. She did her postgraduate studies as a Marshall Scholar at Kings College of the University of Cambridge, earning a Ph.D. in English in 2002. Also in 2002, Yale Law School awarded Emens her J.D.

After Yale Law, from 2002 to 2003, Emens served as a law clerk for judge Robert D. Sack on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Moving on to the University of Chicago, she was a Bigelow Fellow & Lecturer in Law from 2003 to 2005 at University of Chicago Law School. While at Chicago, Emens, in 2004, wrote her most influential work thus far, "Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence", initially as "Paper #58" of the "University of Chicago Public Law & Legal Theory, Research Paper Series", and published in 2004 in the "New York University Review of Law & Social Change". Since 2005 she is Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

Emens is a member of the New York State Bar Association (admitted 2003) and the American Bar Association.

Selected works

* (2002). "Queering Law: A Queer Theory of Same-Sex Marriage".
* (2004). "Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence". "New York University Review of Law & Social Change", 29 (2): 277.
* (2005). "The Sympathetic Discriminator: Mental Illness and the ADA". "Georgetown Law Journal".
* (2005). "Aggravating Youth: "Roper v. Simmons" and Age Discrimination." "Supreme Court Review", 58.

References

External links

* [http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Elizabeth_Emens Emens' profile at Columbia Law]