Elizabeth Schneider
M.Sc., The London School of Economics and Political Science
B.A., Bryn Mawr College
Civil Rights
Domestic Violence
Women's Rights
Gender and Sexuality Discrimination
Family Law
Articles
Sex, Trump, and Constitutional Change, 34 Constitutional Commentary 43 (2019) (with Helen Hershkoff)
BrooklynWorksProcedure as Substance, 64 DePaul Law Review 669 (2015)
BrooklynWorksRevisiting the Integration of Law and Fact in Contemporary Federal Civil Litigation, 15 Nevada Law Journal 1387 (2014-2015)
BrooklynWorks PDFThe Development of Domestic Violence as a Field: Honoring Clare Dalton, 20 Journal of Law & Policy 343 (2012) (with C. Hanna)
BrooklynWorks SSRNThe AALS Section on Women in Legal Education: The Past and the Future, 80 UMKC Law Review 733 (2012)
BrooklynWorksPower, Law and Final Thoughts: The Contributions of Peter Bachrach, 43 (1) PS: Political Science and Politics 93 (January 2010)
The Changing Shape of Federal Civil Pretrial Practice: The Disparate Impact on Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination Cases, 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 517 (2010)
BrooklynWorksDomestic Violence Law Reform in the Twenty-First Century: Looking Back and Looking Forward, 42 Family Law Quarterly 353 (2008)
BrooklynWorksRevisiting Trauma and Recovery, 36 Women's Studies Quarterly 269 (2008)
Student Stories, 76 UMKC Law Review (2008)
BrooklynWorksThe Dangers of Summary Judgment: Gender and Federal Civil Litigation, 59 Rutgers Law Review 705 (2007)
BrooklynWorksIntroduction: The New Economy and the Social Safety Net, 69 Brooklyn Law Review 395 (2004)
BrooklynWorksTransnational Law as a Domestic Resource: Thoughts on the Case of Women’s Rights, 38 New England Law Review 689 (2004)
BrooklynWorksGrief, Procedure and Justice: The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, 53 DePaul Law Review 457 (2003)
BrooklynWorksRoundtable: Subversive Legal Moments?, 12 Texas Journal of Women & Law 197 (2003) (with others)
BrooklynWorksSpeaking Volumes: Musings on the Issues of the Day, Inspired by the Memor of Mary Joe Frug, 12 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 660 (2003) (with R. Austin)
BrooklynWorksAfterword: The Perils and Pleasures of Activist Scholarship, 11 American University Journal of Gender Social Policy & Law 965 (2003)
BrooklynWorksThe Synergy of Equality and Privacy in Women’s Rights, 2002 University of Chicago Legal Forum 137
BrooklynWorksMary Joe Frug’s Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto Ten Years Later: Reflections on the State of Feminism Today, 36 England Law Review 1 (2001) (with R. Austin)
BrooklynWorksIntroduction Fifteenth Anniversary of the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program, 66 Brooklyn Law Review 147 (2000)
BrooklynWorksEngaging with the State about Domestic Violence: Continuing Dilemmas and Gender Equality, 1 Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law 173 (1999)
BrooklynWorksGender Bias, Cognition and Power in the Legal Academy, 65 Brooklyn Law Review 1125 (1999)
BrooklynWorksMarkets and Women’s International Human Rights, 25 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 141 (1999)
BrooklynWorksFeminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, and the Legal Profession, 67 Fordham Law Review 249 (1998) (with C. G. Bowman)
BrooklynWorksA Postscript on VMI, 6 American University Journal of Gender and Law 59 (1997)
BrooklynWorksTwo Decades of Intermediate Scrutiny: Evaluating Equal Protection for Women Centennial Panel, 6 American University Journal of Gender and Law 1 (1997)
BrooklynWorksThe Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, 4 Journal of Law and Policy 427 (1996)
BrooklynWorksResistance to Equality, 57 University of Pittsburg Law Review 477 (1996) (excerpted in Cases and Materials on Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law (West, 2003))
BrooklynWorksIntroduction: The Promise of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 4 Journal of Law and Policy 371 (1996)
BrooklynWorksEpilogue: Making Reconceptualization of Violence Against Women Real, 58 Albany Law Review 1245 (1995)
BrooklynWorksFeminist Lawmaking and Historical Consciousness: Bringing the Past into the Future, 2 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law 1 (1994)
BrooklynWorksForeword: Ed Sparer’s Legacy, 60 Brooklyn Law Review 1 (1994)
BrooklynWorksHearing Women Not Being Heard: On Carol Gilligan’s Getting Civilized and the Complexity of Voice, 63 Fordham Law Review 33 (1994)
BrooklynWorksBuilding Bridges Between Theory and Practice, Activism and Scholarship, 40 Cleveland State Law Review 493 (1993)
BrooklynWorksThe Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women’s Movement, 61 New York University Law Review 589 (1986) (reprinted in Women, Welfare and the State (L. Gordon ed. 1990); At the Boundaries of Law: Feminism and Legal Theory (M. Fineman ed. 1990); and Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender (K. Bartlett and R. Kennedy eds. 1991) and Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations (D. Kelly Weisberg ed., 1993)
BrooklynWorksFeminism and the False Dichotomy of Victimization and Agency, 38 New York Law School Law Review 387 (1993) (excerpted in American Philosophical Association Joint Newsletters on Feminism and Philosophy, and Philosophy and Law (1995))
BrooklynWorksGendering and Engendering Process, 61 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1223 (1993)
BrooklynWorksStructuring Complexity, Disciplining Reality: The Challenge of Teaching Civil Procedure in a Time of Change, 59 Brooklyn Law Review 1191 (1993)
BrooklynWorksContradiction and Revision: Progressive Feminist Legal Scholars Respond to Mary Joe Frug, 15 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 62 (1992) (with J. Greenberg and M. Minow)
BrooklynWorksParticularity and Generality: Challenges of Feminist Theory and Practice in Work on Woman-Abuse, 67 New York University Law Review 520 (1992)
BrooklynWorksViolence Against Women and Legal Education: An Essay for Mary Joe Frug, 26 New England Law Review 843 (1992)
BrooklynWorksFeminist Jurisprudence - The 1990 Myra Bradwell Day Panel, 1 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 6 (1991) (with others)
BrooklynWorksThe Violence of Privacy, 23 Connecticut Law Review 973 (1991) (reprinted in The Public Nature of Private Violence (M. Fineman ed. 1994), Violence Against Women (1994), Feminist Legal Theory: Perspectives on Sex, Violence, Work and Reproduction (D. Kelly Weisberg ed. 1996); excerpted in Gender and Law (K. Bartlett 1993), and International Human Rights in Context (H. Steiner and P. Alston 1995))
BrooklynWorksIntegration of Professional Skills into the Law School Curriculum: Where We've Been and Where We're Going, 19 New Mexico Law Review 111 (1989)
BrooklynWorksTask Force Reports on Women in the Courts: The Challenge for Legal Education, 38 Journal of Legal Education 87 (1988)
BrooklynWorksLesbians, Gays and Feminists at the Bar: Translating Personal Experience into Effective Legal Argument - A Symposium, 10 Women's Rights Law Reports 107 (1988)
BrooklynWorksThe Incomplete Revolution: Remember the Ladies, Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin (Fall 1987)
Rethinking the Teaching of Civil Procedure, 37 Journal of Legal Education 41 (1987)
BrooklynWorksPolitical Interference in Law School Clinical Programs: Reflections on Outside Interference and Academic Freedom, 11 Journal of College and University Law 179 (1984)
BrooklynWorksEqual Rights to Trial for Women: Sex-Bias in the Law of Self-Defense, 15 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 623 (1980)
BrooklynWorksRepresentation of Women Who Defend Themselves in Response to Physical or Sexual Assault, 2 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 19 (1978) (reprinted in Women's Self-Defense Cases: Theory and Practice (1981); and as a monograph (Center for Constitutional Rights, 1978)) (with S. Jordan)
BrooklynWorksConstitutional Perspectives on Sex Discrimination in Jury Selection," 2 Women's Rights and Representation 3 (1975) (with R. Copelon & N. Stearns)
BrooklynWorksBooks
Domestic Violence, Citizenship and Equality in Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (Cambridge 2012)
Women and the Law Stories (Foundation Press, 2010) (with S.M. Wildman)
Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice, 2009 Supplement, with Teacher's Manual (Foundation Press, 2nd ed., 2008) (with others)
Legal Reform Efforts for Battered Women: Past, Present and Future (Brooklyn Law School, 1990)
Contributions to Books
Domestic Violence, Citizenship and Equality, in Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (J. L. Grossman and L. McClain, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Introduction, in Teach Your Students Well: Incorporating Domestic Violence into the Law School Curricula (American Bar Association, 2003)
Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy and Equality, in Women and the United States Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice (S. Schwarzenbach & P. Smith ed., Columbia University Press , 2003)
BrooklynWorksViolence Against Women [panel], in Women’s Rights in Theory and Practice: Employment, Violence and Poverty (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2002)
The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at the Century's End: The American Experience, in Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the US and England (S. Katz and others, eds., Oxford University Press, 2001)
Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking, excerpted in Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law: Cases and Materials (M. Mahoney and others, West, 2000)
Perspectives on Women’s Subordination and the Role of Law, in The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique (D. Kairys ed., Basic Books, 3d ed., 1998) (with N. Taub)
What Happened to Public Education about Domestic Violence, in Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case: Justice Confronts Race, Domestic Violence, Lawyers, Money, and the Media (J. Abramson, ed., Basic Books, 1996)
Reflections on Reflections After Casey, in Reflections After Casey: Women Look at the Status of Reproductive Rights in America: Essays (Center for Constitutional Rights, 1993)
Battered Women: Reflections on Feminist Theory and Feminist Practice, in Columbia University Seminars: Selected Papers and Proceedings, 1991-1992 (1992)
The She-Side of Equality: A View from the United States, in The She-Side of Equality (J. Goldschmidt ed., 1991)
The Affirmative Dimensions of Douglas' Privacy, in He Shall Not Pass This Way Again: The Legacy of Justice William O. Douglas (S. Wasby ed., University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990)
Women and the Constitution -- Looking Back: The First 200 Years, in Women and the Constitution: Past, Present and Future (American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1988)
Self-Defense Work for Battered Women, in Women and the Law (C. Lefcourt ed., Boardman, 1987)
Women's Self-Defense Work and the Problem of Expert Testimony on Battering, in Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook (J. Lobel ed., Clark Boardman Co., 1986)
Law School Clinical Programs and Academic Freedom, in Regulating the Intellectuals: Perspectives on Academic Freedom in the 1980's (C. Kaplan & E. Schrecker eds., Praeger, 1983)
Contributor, The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue (Avon Books, 1972)
Our Failures Only Marry: Bryn Mawr College and the Failure of Feminism, in Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness (V. Gomick & B. Moran eds., Basic Books, 1971)
Shorter Works
Why Feminist Legal Theory Still Needs Mary Joe Frug: Thoughts on Conflicts in Feminism, 51 New England Law Review 1 (2016)
BrooklynWorksThe Conundrums of Unsexing Parenting, 35 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Online (Feb. 6, 2012)
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