Associate Professor of Law. Professor Goldfarb is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University, where she earned her B.A. degree summa cum laude in 1978. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School in 1982. She was a law clerk to Chief Judge Barbara B. Crabb of the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wisconsin, a Georgetown University Women`s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Women`s Law Center, an assistant attorney general for the State of Wisconsin, and a senior staff attorney at the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She has taught at Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law. Among her publications are "The Supreme Court, the Violence Against Women Act, and the Use and Abuse of Federalism" (Fordham Law Review), "Violence against Women and the Persistence of Privacy" (Ohio State Law Journal), "Family Law, Marriage, and Heterosexuality: Questioning the Assumptions" (Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review), "Marital Partnership and the Case for Permanent Alimony" (Journal of Family Law), and "Child Support Guidelines: A Model for Fair Allocation of Child Care, Medical, and Educational Expenses" (Family Law Quarterly). She was an adviser to the American Law Institute Project on the Law of Family Dissolution and a representative to the New York State Commission on Child Support.
