Associate Professor of Law. Professor Freedman earned her B.A.
magna cum laude in 1968 at Radcliffe College and her J.D. in 1971 at
Yale Law School. She is admitted to the Bars in Connecticut, the
District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania. She was an assistant defender
with the Defender Association of Philadelphia; and a founder, staff
attorney, and later chairperson of the Board of Trustees at the Women's
Law Project in Philadelphia. Professor Freedman's most recent article
is "Fact Finding in Civil Domestic Violence Cases: Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Need for Compassionate Witnesses," #11 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law (2003). As chair
of the law school's Lawyering Program Committee, she provides faculty
oversight to the law school's clinical programs, including the Domestic
Violence Clinic, and the Pro Bono Domestic Violence Program. Professor Freedman also serves on the advisory board of DV LEAP,
the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project,
directed by Professor Joan Meier of George Washington University Law
School. Professor Freedman is coauthor of a pathbreaking
textbook, Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice and Theory
(1996), and of other books on sex discrimination law and the Equal
Rights Amendment. She is also a coauthor of "The Equal
Rights Amendment: A Constitutional Basis for Rights for Women," 81 Yale
Law Journal 871 (1971), which gave the Equal Rights Amendment its modern legal
form, and author of "Sex Equality, Sex Differences and the Supreme
Court," 92 Yale Law Journal 913 (1983). Between 1976 and 1982, she
served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause.
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