Elizabeth_F._Emens
Elizabeth F. Emens (born July 19, 1972) is an American legal scholar and an Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University. She specializes in anti-discrimination law, disability law, law and sexuality, family law, and contract law.[1] She is the author of Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019),[2] published in the UK as The Art of Life Admin: How to Do Less, Do It Better, and Live More (Viking, 2019).[3]
Emens graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1994 with a B.A. in English and psychology. She completed her postgraduate studies as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, earning a Ph.D. in English in 2002. Also in 2002, Yale Law School awarded Emens her J.D.
After graduating from law school, Emens served as a law clerk for Judge Robert D. Sack on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2002 to 2003, and then, from 2003 to 2005, as a Bigelow Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She has been a professor at Columbia Law School since 2005.
Emens is a member of the New York State Bar Association (admitted 2003) and the American Bar Association (ABA).
