Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Eyer
earned her B.A. from Columbia University in 1999 and her J.D. in 2004 from Yale
Law School. During her law school years, Professor Eyer published three
academic pieces, including her first full-length article, and was also very
active in clinic, representing prisoners with disabilities in federal
constitutional litigation. Following graduation from law school,
Professor Eyer clerked for the Hon. Guido Calabresi on the Second Circuit Court
of Appeals, and then served as a Skadden Fellow for two years at the LGBT
rights organization Equality Advocates Pennsylvania. From 2007 through
2012, Professor Eyer was a litigator with the firm of Salmanson Goldshaw, PC,
where she litigated several precedent-setting cases expanding the legal rights
of LGBT and disabled employees. Professor Eyer was also a research scholar and lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania from 2009 through
mid-2012, at which time she joined Rutgers faculty. Professor Eyer's
research interests relate to discrimination law and the reasons why
discrimination claims fail across an array of contexts. Her recent
publications include "That's Not Discrimination: American Beliefs and the
Limits of Anti-Discrimination Law" (Minnesota Law Review), "Have We
Arrived Yet: LGBT Rights and the Limits of Formal Equality" (Law &
Sexuality), and "Administrative Adjudication and the Rule of Law" (Administrative
Law Review).