Career
Fineman has a B.A. from Temple University (1971) and a J.D. from the University of Chicago (1975). She clerked for the Hon. Luther Merritt Swygert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and was on faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School from 1976 to 1990. She was appointed as the Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in 1990, and as the first Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School in 1999. The Clarke professorship is the first endowed chair in feminist jurisprudence at a law school in the United States. Since 2004, she has been Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, which is that institution’s highest honor bestowed on a faculty member, "reserved for world-class scholars who are not only proven leaders of their own fields of specialty but also ambitious bridge-builders across specialty disciplines." She is the third legal scholar after Harold J. Berman and Michael J. Perry to be appointed to such a chair.
Fineman directs the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, which she founded in 1984 and which has been housed by the University of Wisconsin Law School, Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, and Emory Law. The Feminism and Legal Theory Project nurtures scholars from around the world, bringing them together to study and debate a wide range of topics related to feminist theory and law. Fineman is an affiliated scholar of the Center for American Progress.
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