Elizabeth F. Emens

Who is Elizabeth F. Emens?

Elizabeth F. Emens is a legal scholar and currently an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University. She specializes in anti-discrimination law, disability law, law and sexuality, family law, and contract law.

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 an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School since 2005.

Emens is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.