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; 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, New
York University School of Law, and University of Pennsylvania Law School. Among
her publications are "Reconceiving Civil Protection Orders for Domestic
Violence: Can Law Help End the Abuse Without Ending the Relationship," (Cardozo Law Review),"Granting Same-Sex Couples the Full Rights
and Benefits of Marriage: Easier Said Than Done" (Rutgers Law Review), "Applying the Discrimination Model to
Violence against Women"
(American University Journal of Gender, Social
Policy and the
Law),
"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 has served on a number of boards and commissions,
including the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts, the Board of Advisers for the American Law Institute's Project on the Law of Family
Dissolution, and the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
Expert Group on Violence Against Women.
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