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Law’s family law program. Originally the sole professor in the area, his expertise in the field has become
Assuming the Mantle of Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law
renowned at Hofstra Law and in the larger family
law
commu-
nity. In 1986 Gregory was appointed to the Sidney Siben
and
Walter
Distinguished
Professorship in Family Law, which promotes scholarly research, conferences and publications
JOANNA
L.
GROSSMAN
was
installed as the Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law at a convocation on April 24. Grossman joined the Hofstra Law faculty in 1999. She served as the associate dean for faculty development from 20042008 and was named the John DeWitt Gregory Research Scholar for 2010-2011.
in the field of family law. Through his efforts, the Sidney
Grossman writes extensively about family law, espe-
and Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture in
cially state regulation of marriage and nontraditional
Family Law is regarded as one of the most prestigious of
families. She is the co-author of Inside the Castle: Law
its kind and fosters important scholarship published in the
and the Family in 20th Century America, a comprehensive
Hofstra Law Review.
social history of family law in the U.S. She also writes about sex discrimination and workplace equality, with a special
In addition to teaching, Gregory
focus on issues such as sexual harassment and pregnancy
was involved in the founding of
discrimination. She is also the co-author of Gender and
the Clinical Program and served
Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (6th ed.) and the co-
as its co-director from 1971ics in the country, it began with the idea of serving the surrounding underprivileged community and law
teaching students
editor of Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Photo by Ricardo Horatio Nelson
1972. One of the first law clin-
Citizenship, an interdisciplinary anthology that explores persistent gaps between formal commitments to gender equality and the reality of women’s lives. Grossman is a regular columnist for Justia’s Verdict, an online source for legal commentary, and has served on the editorial board of Perspectives, the magazine of the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession.
to take what
She was selected to deliver Hofstra University’s
they learned
Distinguished Faculty Lecture in 2004 and Annual Diversity Lecture in 2010. She was inducted into Long Island’s “40 Under 40” in 2005 and was elected to the American Law Institute in 2009. A graduate with distinction from Stanford Law School, Grossman clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before spending a year as staff counsel at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., as recipient of the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship. She practiced law from 19961998 at the D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly. H
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