Associate Professor, Hofstra Law School, 1999-present

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1 Hofstra Law School 121 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY (516) JOANNA L. GROSSMAN ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor, Hofstra Law School, 1999-present Courses: Wills, Trusts and Estates, Family Law, Contracts, and Sex-based Discrimination. Activities: Chair, Visiting Scholars and Speakers Committee ( ); Chair, Placement and Clerkships Committee ( ); Member, Appointments Committee ( ); Advisor, Hofstra Law Women (1999-present); Advisor, Public Justice Foundation (1999-present). Honors: University s Distinguished Lecturer (Spring 2004); Hofstra Law Review s Professor of the Year (2001); Elected Graduation Awards Presenter (2002); Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal s Professor of the Year (2002); Public Justice Foundation s Professor of the Year (2002). Associate Professor, Tulane Law School, Courses: Women and the Law, Trusts and Estates, Family law, and International Litigation (summer program in Siena, Italy). Adjunct Lecturer, Washington College of Law, American University, Fall EDUCATION Course: Sex-based Discrimination. STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, J.D. with distinction, 1994 Order of the Coif Cumulative GPA: 3.8 Stanford Law Review, Articles Development Editor AMHERST COLLEGE, Amherst, MA B.A. in Economics, May OTHER LEGAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY, Washington, D.C. (October 1996-August 1998) Litigation Associate. Trial and appellate litigation involving trusts & estates, family law, products liability, and trademark infringement.

2 NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER, Washington, D.C. (Fall 1995-Fall 1996) Staff Attorney. Recipient of Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Litigated cases involving sexual harassment in the workplace, schools, and prisons; analyzed legislation and lobbied in areas of welfare reform and child support enforcement; provided direct legal services and education to women in prison. THE HONORABLE WILLIAM A. NORRIS, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (June 1994-June 1995). Judicial Clerk. WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY, Washington, D.C. (Summer 1993) Summer Associate Research Assistant, Prof. Barbara A. Babcock, Stanford Law School, Researched new material and drafted new sections for forthcoming edition of civil procedure casebook; researched various issues relating to jury representation. Head Teaching Assistant, Introduction to American Law, Departments of Political Science and American Studies, Stanford University, 1992 & Responsible for planning and teaching two weekly discussion sections for an undergraduate class covering torts, criminal law, and constitutional law. Research Assistant, Prof. Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School, Researched issues relating to history of criminal justice. Organized archive of nineteenth-century civil court cases. ARTICLES The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993: Men Don t Take Leave, and Other Obstacles to Gender Equality, 15 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol y 17 (2004) Feminist Law Journals and the Rankings Conundrum, 12 Columbia J. Gender & Law 522 (2003) The Culture of Compliance: The Final Triumph of Form over Substance in Sexual Harassment Law, 26 Harvard Women s Law Journal 1 (2003) Making a Federal Case Out of It: Section 1981 and At-Will Employment, 67 Brook. L. Rev. 329 (2001) Separated Spouses, 53 Stan. L. Rev (2001) (review essay) The First Bite is Free: Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment, 61 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 671 (2000) Adoption in the Progressive Era: Preserving, Creating, and Re-Creating Families, 43 Am. J. Leg. Hist. 235 (1999) (with Chris Guthrie) The Road Less Taken: Annulment at the Turn of the Century, 40 Am. J. Leg. Hist. 307 (1996) (with Chris Guthrie) Guardianship: A Research Note, 40 Am. J. Leg. Hist. 146 (1996) (with Lawrence M. Friedman and

3 Chris Guthrie) Women's Jury Service: Right of Citizenship or Privilege of Difference?, 46 Stan. L. Rev (1994) (Note) ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND SHORT PIECES The Supreme Court s 2003 Employment Rulings: Surprising Gains for Workers and Women, 6 Regional Labor Review 22 (Fall 2003) A Partial Legal Victory Against Continuing Discrimination: The New Supreme Court Ruling in Amtrak v. Morgan, 5 Regional Labor Review (Fall 2002) ERPL: Looking Beyond the Loss Ratio, Rough Notes 77 (Nov. 2002) (interview) Women s Labor Rights Rulings in 2001: A Mixed Bag, 4 Regional Labor Review 34 (Spring/Summer 2002) Probate and Succession Law, in Legal Systems Of The World (2002) Harassment, in The Oxford Companion to American Law (2002) Sexual Harassment, in The Oxford Companion to American Law (2002) COMMENTARY The following pieces have been published in FindLaw s Writ, where indicated, reprinted elsewhere: The End of Ladies Night in New Jersey (June 15, 2004) Same-Sex Couples Prepare to Marry in Massachusetts, But the Governor Invokes An Archaic Marriage Evasion Act To Stop Out-of-Staters From Taking Vows (May 18, 2004) (cnn.com) Are "Friends" Writers "Required" To Engage in Sexual Banter, Even If the Effect Is Harassing? A Ruling in a California Court Allows the Argument to Be Made (May 4, 2004) (cnn.com) A New York Court Authorizes A Lesbian Couple's Joint Adoption of A Child: Part of a Growing Same-Sex Adoption Trend (April 19, 2004) U.S. News & World Report's 2005 Law School Rankings: Why They May Not Be Trustworthy, and How the Alternative Ranking Systems Compare (April 6, 2004) How Should Harassment Victims' Claims of "Constructive Discharge" Be Treated? A Question the Supreme Court Soon Will Confront (March 23, 2004) The California Supreme Court's Recent Holding: A "Presumed" Father Has Greater Rights Than a Biological One (March 9, 2004)

4 San Francisco Takes Center Stage by Permitting Gay Couples to Marry (February 24, 2004) How Same-Sex Marriage Became Legal in Massachusetts (February 6, 2004) (cnn.com) Is There a Constitutional Right to Promote the Use of Sex Toys?, January 7; The New Jersey Domestic Partnership Law (January 13, 2004) Punishing Adultery in Virginia: A Cheating Husband s Guilty Plea is a Reminder of the Continued Relevance of Adultery Statutes (Dec. 16, 2003) Sexual Harassment: The California Supreme Court Holds that Damages Cannot Include Avoidable Consequences of a Victim s Failure to Properly Complain (Dec. 02, 2003) Are Bans on Same-Sex Marriage Constitutional? (Nov. 20, 2003) (cnn.com) Who Should Be Liable for Sudden, Severe Sexual Harassment? (Nov. 4, 2003) Can a School Retaliate Against a Coach Who Complains About its Unfair Treatment of Female Athletes (Oct. 21, 2003) (cnn.com) Why the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993: The Tenth Anniversary Should Prompt a Rethinking (Oct. 7, 2003) Do Italian-Americans Jurors Have a Right Not to Be Excluded Based on Their Ethnicity? (Sept. 2, 2003) Teaching the Rich to Stay Rich: A Review of Preparing Heirs (Sept. 5, 2003) Whose Surname Should a Child Have? (Aug. 12, 2003) Saving Title IX (July 15, 2003) The Consequences of Lawrence v. Texas (July 8, 2003) (posted on cnn.com and reprinted in the Gay & Lesbian Review) A Recent Supreme Court Decision Makes it Easier for Plaintiffs to Proceed When Discrimination is One Motive, but not the Only One (June 17, 2003) A Victory for Families, but Hardly a Panacea: The Supreme Court Holds that the Family and Medical Leave Act Applies to States (June 3, 2003) Vermont Civil Unions: Will Sister States Recognize Them? (May 20, 2003) A New Lawsuit by a Female Athlete Tests Title IX s Protection Against Pregnancy Discrimination (May 6, 2003) When an Employee is Not Formally Fired, but Effectively Forced to Leave, Is Her Employer Automatically Liable for Sexual Harassment? (April 22, 2003) What Should Happen When Sexual Harassment Victims Don t File Prompt Complaints?

5 (April 8, 2003) The Women of Harvard Law s Class of 64 (book review) (Mar. 28, 2003) Does Discrimination Against Gay Men and Lesbians Count as Sex Discrimination? (with Brian Lehman) (Mar. 25, 2003) The Future of Title IX (Mar. 11, 2003) Should a Surviving Spouse in a Same-Sex Couple be Permitted to Sue for Wrongful Death? (Feb. 25, 2003) Is the Tort of Wrongful Seduction Still Viable? (Feb. 11, 2002) (reprinted in North Carolina State Bar Journal 16 (Summer 2003)) If Employers don t Provide Insurance Coverage for Infertility, Are They Guilty of Sex Discrimination? (Jan. 28, 2003) Are Law Firm Partners Employers For Purposes of Discrimination Law? A Federal Court of Appeals Suggests They May Not Be (Dec. 17, 2002) Must States Follow a Federal Statute Mandating Unpaid Leave for Employees Who Care for Sick Family Members and Newborns? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide (Dec. 3, 2002) What Defines Business Necessity In the Discrimination Context? Appellate Case Grapples With How Fast Transit Police Officers Must Run (Nov. 19, 2002) Should Employers be Held Responsible for Sexual Harassment of Employees by Customers if They Were Aware of It? A California Court Says No, But Gets it Wrong (Nov. 5, 2002) Are At-Will Employees Protected Against Race Discrimination Under Section 1981, A Federal Anti- Discrimination Law? A Growing Majority of Courts Say Yes (Oct. 22, 2002) (cnn.com) Can A Gay Man Targeted by Co-Workers Sue for Sexual Harassment? A Recent Federal Appeals Decision Says Yes (Oct. 8, 2002) Should Employers be Automatically Liable When Supervisors Coerce Sexual Favors From Subordinates? The Second Circuit Says Yes and It s Right (Aug. 13, 2002) The Dark Side of Annulment: How a Divorce Alternative Became the Center of a Landmark Trial Early in our History (Aug. 5, 2002) A Recent Supreme Court Decision Gives a Boost to Sexual Harassment Victims, But Not to Other Victims of Discrimination (July 2, 2002) On the Thirtieth Anniversary of Title IX, We Need to Preserve, Not Reverse, Its Guarantee of Equity for Women in College Athletics (June 18, 2002) The Bush Administration s Push for Single-Sex Education: An Attempt to Erode Federal Gender Equality Guarantees (June 11, 2002)

6 An Issue Ripe for Supreme Court Review: A Decision upholding Michigan Law School s Race-Based admission Plan Creates an Even Circuit Split (May 20, 2002) (cnn.com) Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Do Employers Efforts Truly Prevent Harassment, Or Just Prevent Liability? (May 7, 2002) Can a Woman Sue for Sex Discrimination if She is Fired Because Her Boss Wife is Jealous? (Apr. 23, 2002) Should the Law be Kinder to Kissin Cousins? (Apr. 8, 2002) (cnn.com) In a Decision Rejecting a Transsexual s Marital Union, Kansas Embraces Traditional Marriage Or Does It? (Mar. 26, 2002) Can the Fifty States Grandparent Visitation Statutes Survive in the Wake of the Supreme Court s Decision of Troxel v. Granville? (Mar. 12, 2002) Two New, but Opposing, Developments For Gay and Lesbian Parents (Feb. 12, 2002) The Supreme Court Considers the Continuing Violations Doctrine, in a Decision Sure to Affect Many Parties to Harassment Cases (Jan. 29, 2002) Fault-Based Divorce is Alive and Well in New York (Jan. 15, 2002) The Virtues of Virtual Parenting (Dec. 18, 2001) A California Court Takes a Stand Against Sexual Harassment (Dec. 4, 2001) Do Prisoners Have a Right to Procreate Via FedEx? (Nov. 20, 2001) A Twist on the Problem of Sex Inequality in Coaching (Nov. 6, 2001) Who Gets the Engagement Ring When the Wedding is Called Off? (Oct. 23, 2001) The Adoptability of Abandoned Babies: A Recent New York Case Interprets the State s Baby Moses Law (Oct. 9, 2001) The Problem with Playing the Blame Game with Respect to the September 11 Tragedy (Sept. 25, 2001) Another Inroad Into At-Will Employment: Connecticut s Ruling That an At-Will Employee s Discharge Due To Pregnancy Is Wrongful (Sept. 11, 2001) Same-Sex Harassment After the Supreme Court s Decision In Oncale: A Recent Texas Case Illustrates the Issues (Aug. 28, 2001) The Cost of Hitting Your Wife With a Barbell: Fault and the Division of Marital Property (Aug. 14, 2001)

7 Transsexuals, Dress Codes, and the Law: A New Jersey Court Decision Embraces a Broad Concept of Sex Discrimination (July 17, 2001) The Supreme Court Term on Women s Rights: A Mixed Bag of Split Decisions (July 3, 2001) (cnn.com) A Victory for Motherhood and for Sexism: The Supreme Court s Decision in Nguyen V. INS (June 18, 2001) (cnn.com & usatoday.com) Whom Can Transsexuals Marry? And From Whom Can They Inherit? (June 5, 2001) The New ABA Report on Women and Law: Why the Solutions the Report Proposes May Not Work in the Real World (May 22, 2001) The Supreme Court s Recent Disparate Impact Case and Its Implications for Gender Equity (May 8, 2001) Dissolving Unhappy Vermont Civil Unions: It s Harder Than It Looks (April 24, 2001) Equal Opportunity Harassers: Does a Sex Harasser Who Targets Both Men and Women Violate Federal Anti-Discrimination Law? (April 10, 2001) Why the Family and Medical Leave Act Should Be Expanded to Include a Duty to Notify and Other Protections (March 27, 2001) What Remedy Is Proper for Sexual Harassment? (March 13, 2001) Sexual Harassment in the Classroom: The Student Suing Her Professor for Calling Her Monica Lewinsky (Feb. 13, 2001) (cnn.com) Adopting Adults: An Estate Planning Device for Gay Partners (Jan. 16, 2001) Insurance Coverage for Birth Control: The EEOC Speaks (Jan. 2, 2001) Pregnancy and Partnership. (Dec. 19, 2000) Beauty and the Billionaire Part I (Nov. 21, 2000) Beauty and the Billionaire Part II (Dec. 5, 2000) (cnn.com) Sexual Harassment in Law Firms (Nov. 10, 2000.) What s in a Name? Part I (Oct.16, 2000) What s in a Name? Part II (Oct.17, 2000) Who Wants an Annulment? (July 11, 2000) (cnn.com)

8 CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS Participant, Roundtable, What Makes a Parent?, Cardozo Law School, June 17-18, New York, New York Same-Sex Marriage and the False Rhetoric of Uniformity, Conference on Same-Sex Marriage in Massachusetts: The Meaning and Implications of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, Southern New England School of Law, June 11, 2004, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Understanding Organizational Efforts to Prevent Harassment and Their Impact on Employees, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, May 28, 2004, Chicago, Illinois Discussant, The Canon of Family Law, Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities, March 12, 2004, Hartford, Connecticut Understanding the Sexual Harassment Culture (with Vicki Magley and Lisa Kath), Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities, March 12, 2004, Hartford, Connecticut The Limits of Law: Sexual Harassment and Institutional Culture, Distinguished Lecture, Hofstra University, February 25, 2004, Hempstead, NY Participant at conference on Don t Ask, Don t Tell: 10 Years Later, Hofstra University, Sept. 18, 2003, Hempstead, New York Escaping the Confines of Marriage: Divorce and Gender at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, presented at the International Society of Family Law, North American Regional Conference, June 27, 2003, Eugene, Oregon Escaping the Confines of Marriage: Divorce and Annulment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, June 6, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Feminist Law Journals and the Rankings Conundrum, presented at conference on Why a Feminist Law Journal?, April 4, 2003, Columbia University School of Law Moderator, Current Policy Initiatives to Promote Marriage, at A Conference on Marriage, Democracy, and Families, March 14, 2003, Hempstead, New York Escaping the Confines of Marriage: Women and Divorce at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, March 7, 2003, at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Sixth Annual Conference, New York, New York Chair and Discussant, A Duty of Care: Being Responsible for the Mentally Incapable in the Eighteenth- Century Atlantic World, American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Nov. 8, 2002, San Diego, California

9 The Clash Between Law and Reality: Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment, presented at the Law and Society Annual Meeting, May 31, 2002, Vancouver, Canada When Law Confronts Reality: The Limitations on Law s Ability to Change Workplace Culture, presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities, March 10, 2002, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Discussant and Chair, Women and Violence, Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference, Austin, TX (March 2001) Panelist, Sexual Harassment and the Workplace, Nov. 10, 1999 (conference for New York employers) Melville, NY (November 1999) Lecturer, CLE course on sexual harassment sponsored by the Suffolk County Bar Association, May 26, 2000, Islip, New York Participant, Roundtable Law, Society, and History: The Contributions of Lawrence Friedman (III), May 28, 1999, Chicago, Illinois MEDIA APPEARANCES Interviewed on WNYC, May 17, 2004 (same-sex marriage in Massachusetts) Interviewed on NPR s Morning Edition, March 3, 2004 (same-sex marriage in New York) Interviewed on Ken and Company, KABC 770, Los Angeles, California, November 19, 2003 (same-sex marriage in Massachusetts) GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Hofstra Law School Summer Grant ( ) Tulane Law School Summer Grant (1999) Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship ( ). Stanford Law and Society Program ( ) (for archival research on criminal justice in Wisconsin). Stanford Law and Society Program ( ) (for archival research on family law in California). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, New York Bar (2002), California Bar (1995), District of Columbia Bar (1996) Member, Law and Society Association Member, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Anonymous Referee, Aspen Law and Books, Law and Society Review, Law, Culture, and Humanities Journal Member, Editorial Board, PERSPECTIVES (magazine of the ABA s Commission on Women in the Profession) Expert, Passeri v. Pacific Life Insurance Co. (Cal. Sup. Ct. 2003) and Pellier v. British Airways (S.D.N.Y. 2004)

10 REFERENCES Professor Lawrence M. Friedman Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA (650) Professor Barbara Allen Babcock Judge John Crown Professor of Law Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA (650) Professor Lloyd Bonfield Tulane University School of Law John Giffen Weinmann Hall 6329 Freret Street New Orleans, LA (504) Professor Michael G. Collins Tulane University School of Law John Giffen Weinmann Hall 6329 Freret Street New Orleans, LA (504) Professor Peter J. Spiro Associate Dean for Faculty Development Hofstra University School of Law 121 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY (516) Professor Linda C. McClain Hofstra University School of Law 121 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY (516)