Elizabeth F. Emens
Elizabeth F. Emens is a legal scholar and an Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University. She specializes in anti-discrimination law, disability law, law and sexuality, family law, and contract law. She is the author of Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More, published in the UK as The Art of Life Admin: How to Do Less, Do It Better, and Live More.
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 King's College, Cambridge, earning a Ph.D. in English in 2002. Also in 2002, Yale Law School awarded Emens her J.D.
After graduating from law school, Emens served as a law clerk for Judge Robert D. Sack on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2002 to 2003, and then, from 2003 to 2005, as a Bigelow Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She has been a professor at Columbia Law School since 2005.
Emens is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.Selected works
- . "Queering Law: A Queer Theory of Same-Sex Marriage."
- . "Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence." New York University Review of Law & Social Change, 29 : 277.
- . "Aggravating Youth: Roper v. Simmons and Age Discrimination." Supreme Court Review, 58.
- . "The Sympathetic Discriminator: Mental Illness and the ADA." Georgetown Law Journal.
- . "Shape Stops Story." Narrative.
- . "Changing Name Changing." University of Chicago Law Review.
- . "Integrating Accommodation." University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
- . "Intimate Discrimination." Harvard Law Review.
- . "Framing Disability." U. Illinois Law Review
- . "Compulsory Sexuality" Stanford Law Review.
- . "Admin." Georgetown Law Journal
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