Elizabeth F. Emens is a legal scholar and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University.
Education
Emens graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and psychology. She did her postgraduate studies as a Marshall Scholar at King"s College, Cambridge, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in English in 2002.
Career
She specializes in anti-discrimination law, disability law, law and sexuality, family law, and contract law. After graduating from law school, Emens served as a law clerk for Judge Robert Doctorate. 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 an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School since 2005.
Membership
Emens is a member of the New York State Bar Association (admitted 2003) and the American Bar Association.