Emily Bazelon

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Emily Bazelon (born 1971) is an American journalist and senior editor for online magazine Slate.

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[edit] Early life and career

Bazelon graduated from Yale College in 1993 and from Yale Law School in 2000. After law school she worked as a law clerk for Judge Kermit Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

[edit] Work

Bazelon is a writer and senior editor of Slate and primarily writes about family and jurisprudence issues. She has written articles about many controversial subjects such as the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld trail[1] and post-abortion syndrome[2]. Before joining Slate she was a senior editor of Legal Affairs. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New Republic as well as other publications. She has worked as a reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area and as a freelance journalist in Israel. She also appears on a weekly Slate podcast with David Plotz and John Dickerson called "The Gabfest".

[edit] Personal life

Bazelon is married to Paul Sabin and lives in Washington, D.C. with their two sons. She is the granddaughter of Judge David L. Bazelon and cousin of feminist Betty Friedan.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Invisible Men : Did Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl mislead the Supreme Court?, by Emily Bazelon — Slate Magazine
  2. ^ Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?, by Emily Bazelon — New York Times Magazine

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