Katharine K. Baker Professor of Law
AB, Harvard-Radcliffe College JD, University of Chicago Law School
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atharine Baker received her law degree (with honors) from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a comments editor for the University of Chicago Law Review. After graduating, she clerked for the Honorable Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. From 1990 to 1993, she was a trial attorney with the Environmental Enforcement Section of the United States Department of Justice. Most of Professor Baker’s work focuses on issues pertaining to women. She has written extensively about sexual violence, in particular about the legal and social understandings of rape and sex. In recent years, she has focused more on family law issues, writing numerous articles on the interrelationships between legal, cultural, and biological constructions of parenthood, marriage, and family. Professor Baker has taught courses in environmental law, evidence, property, family law, gender, sexual orientation, and domestic violence. From 2001 to 2009, she was Associate Dean for Faculty Development. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Yale Law School, and Northwestern Law School. For more, visit her faculty webpage at www.kentlaw.iit.edu/faculty/kbaker.
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