Professor of Law
Director, The Diane Abbey
Law Center for Children and Families
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Towards “Development-Based” Standard Setting: Comments on “A New Paradigm for International Labor Standards”, Chapter 27 in Cross-Border Human Resources, Labor and Employment Issues: Proceedings of the New York University 54th Annual Conference on Labor at 753-768 (A.P. Morriss & S. Estreicher, eds., Kluwer Law International, 2005).
“Abstention Doctrine and the Civil Rights Plaintiff: Let the Lawyer Beware.” Chapter 10 in 4 Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook, at 131–150, edited by B.M. Wolvovitz. Clark Boardman, 1988.
LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Confronting Obstacles: Tenure Politics, Rankings and New
Solutions: Not Whistlin’ Dixie: Now More than Ever, We Need Feminist
Law Journals, 12 Columbia Journal Gender & Law 539–545
(2003).
"Who Cares?
Reflections on Law, Loss and Family Values in the Wake of 9/11."
(Special Issue: Reflecting on the Legal Issues of Our Times.
“Crimes Against -Humanity- Women: The Uncomfortable Stories of ‘Comfort Women.’” A Book Review Essay of Comfort Women Speak: Testimony by Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military, edited by Sangmie Choi Schellstede. 17 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 1019–1061 (2001).
“Women and the Internet.” 8Texas Journal of Women and the Law 305–324 (1999).
“Reclaiming Sex From the Pornographers: Cybersexual Possibilities.” 83 Georgetown Law Journal 1969–2008 (1995).
“Snips and Snails and Puppy Dogs’ Tails, That’s What Little Boys Are Made Of.” Book Reviews of American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity From the Revolution to the Modern Era, by E. Anthony Rotundo, and Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity, by Michael A. Messner (Symposium: The Sex Panic: Women, Censorship and “Pornography”). 38 New York Law School Law Review 443–462 (1993).
“Sex, Sin, and Women’s Liberation: Against Porn-Suppression.” 72 Texas Law Review 1097–1201 (1994).
“Decriminalizing Prostitution: Liberation or Dehumanization?” 1 Cardozo Women’s Law Journal 105–120 (1993).
“Imbalance of Powers: Can Congressional Lawsuits Serve as Counterweight?” 54 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 63–128 (1992).
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, PRACTICE MATERIALS, AND OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
International Labor Standards in the WTO’s “New World Order”: Towards “Development-Based” Standard Setting, 59 Guild Practitioner 21–30 (Winter 2002),.
“Corporate Democracy – Not Such a Radical Idea.” San Francisco Chronicle (Open Forum), at A25 (July 24, 1998).
Book Review of No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, by David Cole. 221 New York Law Journal 2 (April 16, 1999).
Book Review of No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda, by Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado. 217 New York Law Journal 2 (February 3, 1997).
Book Review of A Guide to America’s Sex Laws, by Richard A. Posner and Katherine B. Silbaugh. 216 New York Law Journal 2 (November 8, 1996).
“Rare Wisdom on Bare Breasts from a New York Court.” 105 Los Angeles Daily Journal 6 (August 24, 1992).
“Women’s Breasts: So What?” New York Times (Op Ed), at A21 (July 29, 1992).
“Sections on False Imprisonment and Common Law Right to Privacy in Employee Rights Litigation: Pleading and Practice.” Matthew Bender, 1991.
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Radcliffe, B.A. 1970 cum laude
Rutgers, J.D. 1974
Yale, LL.M. 1988. Columbia University Revson Fellowship on the Future of
New York City, 1980.
Frequent speaker on issues of sex, sexuality, family, and gender, as well as employment law and practice. Served on New York City Mayor’s Commission on Status of Women and former president of New York City Chapter of National Lawyers Guild. Arbitrator since 1990, New York City Office of Collective Bargaining, and pro bono consultant for nonprofit organizations on employment issues.
At New York Law School since 1988.