Elizabeth Warren

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Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law. Warren graduated from the University of Houston with a B.S. 1970 and received her J.D from Rutgers University in 1976.

In addition to a wide variety of legal publications, Warren has written books aimed at the general public. Her most recent book, coauthored with her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi is All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan (Free Press, 2005) (ISBN 0-7432-6987-X).

Warren is also the co-author (with Tyagi) of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (Basic, 2003) (ISBN 0-465-09082-6). In an article in Time magazine by Maryanna Murray Buechner, "Parent Trap" (subtitled "Want to go bust? Have a kid. Educate same. Why the middle class never had it so bad"), Buechner said of Warren's book:

For families looking for ways to cope, Warren and Tyagi mainly offer palliatives: Buy a cheaper house. Squirrel away a six-month cash cushion. Yeah, right. But they also know that there are no easy solutions. Readers who are already committed to a house and parenthood will find little to mitigate the deflating sense that they have nowhere to go but down.^[1]

Law professor Todd Zywicki criticized the book in the Wall Street Journal for failing to account for the effect of higher taxes; according to Warren and Tyagi's own numbers, "the change in the tax obligation between the two periods is substantially greater than the change in mortgage, automobile expenses and health-insurance costs combined."^[2]

Since May 2005 Warren has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. She and her law students write a blog called Warren Reports, part of Josh Marshall's TPMCafe.

Warren is married to Bruce Mann, a legal historian and law professor also at Harvard Law School.

Warren appeared in the documentary film Maxed Out in 2006, and has collaborated with the non-profit organization Americans for Fairness in Lending. She was also interviewed for a special featurette on the DVD of Sicko.