Biography

Professor Grossman joined the Hofstra faculty in 1999 and became the Associate Dean for Faculty Development in 2004. She has also taught as an associate professor at Tulane Law School and as a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School, where she served as the articles development editor of the Stanford Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. Professor Grossman 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 teaches courses in family law, sex discrimination, and trusts and estates. Her primary research interests are sexual harassment, work/family issues, pregnancy discrimination, state regulation of marriage, and the history of family law. Professor Grossman has published articles in the Stanford Law Review, Harvard Women's Law Journal, and the American Journal of Legal History, among other journals. She co-edited and introduced a recent symposium in the Family Law Quarterly on third-party rights and obligations with respect to children. She has also co-organized conferences, including "Marriage, Families, and Democracy," held at Hofstra in 2003, and "Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship," to be held at Hofstra in November, 2006.

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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