Elizabeth F. Emens

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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 antidiscrimination law, law and sexuality, family law, disability law, and contract law.^[1]

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.

[edit] 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.