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Joanna L. Grossman
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Professor of Law and John DeWitt Gregory Research Scholar
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B.A., Amherst College
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A graduate with distinction from Stanford Law School, Professor Grossman served as the articles development editor of the Stanford Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. She served as a law clerk to Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before spending a year as staff counsel at the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., as recipient of the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship. She practiced law from 1996 to 1998 at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Williams & Connolly.
Professor Grossman is a regular columnist for FindLaw's Writ and has served on the editorial board of Perspectives, the magazine of the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession. Professor Grossman was selected to deliver Hofstra University’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture in 2004 and was inducted into Long Island's “40 Under 40” in 2005.
Biography
Professor Grossman joined the Hofstra faculty in 1999 and served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2004-08. She was recently named a John DeWitt Gregory Research Scholar for 2009-11. She has taught as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Law School and the University of North Carolina School of Law and as an associate professor at Tulane Law School. She is an expert in sex discrimination and has written extensively about workplace equality, with a focus on issues such as sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. She is the coeditor, with Linda McClain, of Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (Cambridge University Press 2009), an interdisciplinary anthology that explores persistent gaps between formal commitments to gender equality and the reality of women’s lives. Her research also focuses on family law, with particular emphasis on state regulation of marriage and divorce, including same-sex marriage. She is currently at work on a co-authored book, with Lawrence Friedman, about law and the family in twentieth-century America. She currently teaches sex-based discrimination; family law; and wills, trusts and estates.A graduate with distinction from Stanford Law School, Professor Grossman served as the articles development editor of the Stanford Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. She served as a law clerk to Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before spending a year as staff counsel at the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., as recipient of the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship. She practiced law from 1996 to 1998 at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Williams & Connolly.
Professor Grossman is a regular columnist for FindLaw's Writ and has served on the editorial board of Perspectives, the magazine of the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession. Professor Grossman was selected to deliver Hofstra University’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture in 2004 and was inducted into Long Island's “40 Under 40” in 2005.
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