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Professor Emily Gold Waldman joined the ������� faculty in 2006, after clerking for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At �������, she teaches Constitutional Law, Law & Education, Employment Law Survey, and Civil Procedure. She has also served for many years as the Faculty Director of the law school's Federal Judicial Honors Program, which places students in externships with federal judges in the Second Circuit, Third Circuit, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and District of Connecticut.

From 2003–2005, Professor Waldman practiced in the litigation department of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Prior to that, she clerked for the Honorable William G. Young, U.S. District Judge for the District of Massachusetts. She served as the chair of the AALS Section on Education Law during the 2011–2012 school year, is a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination, and is also a member of the Second Circuit's Judicial Council Committee on Civic Education & Public Engagement. Professor Waldman received the law school's Ottinger Award for Faculty Achievement in 2015, 2018 and 2023, the Professor of the Year Award from the Black Law Students Association in 2013, and the Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship in 2008. She currently serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development.

• BA, Yale University
• JD, Harvard University School of Law

• Civil Procedure LAW 610A
• Constitutional Law Law 646
• Employment Law Survey LAW 781
• Law and Education LAW 725

• Harvard Law Review, Editor
• Recipient of Edwin Small Prize for Senior Thesis in American History (Yale)
• Ottinger Award for Faculty Achievement in 2015 and 2018
• Professor of the Year Award from the Black Law Students Association in 2013
• Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship in 2008

View all of Professor Waldman’s publications on , or download her CV (PDF).

Articles:

• Period Rhetoric and Partisan Politics, 57 Fam. L.Q. 265 (2024) (co-author with Bridget J. Crawford)
• Just Extracurriculars?, Minn. L. Rev. ­­­795 (2023)
• Menstruation in a Post-Dobbs World, 97 NYU L. Rev. Online 6 (2022) (with Bridget J. Crawford)
• Working Through Menopause, 99 Wash U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022) (with Bridget J. Crawford and Naomi R. Cahn)
• Contextualizing Menopause in the Law, 43 Harv. J. L. & Gender (forthcoming 2022) (with Bridget J. Crawford and Naomi R. Cahn)
• Managing and Monitoring the Menopausal Body, 2022 U. Chi. L. Forum (forthcoming 2022) (with Naomi R. Cahn and Bridget J. Crawford)
• Compared To What? Menstruation, Pregnancy, and the Complexities of Comparison, 41 Colum. J. Gender & L. 218 (2021)
• Period Poverty in a Pandemic: Harnessing Law to Achieve Menstrual Equity, 98 Wash U. L. Rev. 1569 (2021) (with Bridget J. Crawford)

Books:

• Hot Flash: How Understanding Menopause Can Improve Life and Law for Everyone (with Naomi
• R. Cahn and Bridget J. Crawford) (Stanford University Press) (forthcoming 2024)
• Menstruation Matters: Making Law and Society Responsive to Human Needs (with Bridget J. Crawford) (NYU Press) (2022)

Book Chapters:

• “Menopause Discrimination at Work,” in Research Handbook on Law, Society, and Aging (Sue Westwood & Nancy J. Knauer eds., forthcoming Edward Eldar 2023) (with Naomi R. Cahn and Bridget J. Crawford)

Other Writing:

• Faculty Co-Author of Brief entitled “Brief of First Amendment and Education Law Scholars as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner,” Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (March 2021)
• Author of two casebook chapters (entitled “Students’ Freedom of Expression” and “Creation and Control of the Curriculum”) in Education Law: Equality, Fairness, and Reform (Aspen 3d. Edition 2020) (edited by Derek W. Black)
• “School Speech Controversies in Today’s Climate,” in Eighteenth Annual School Law Institute (Practising Law Institute 2018)
• “Students’ Fourth Amendment Rights in Schools: Strip Searches, Drug Tests, and More” in Tenth Annual School Law Institute, 87-96 (Practising Law Institute 2010) (reprinted in substantially similar form at 26 Touro L. Rev. 1131 (2011))