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Emily Gold Waldman, Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law

Emily Gold Waldman

Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Ian J. Yankwitt Faculty Scholar
Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Constitutional Law
Education Law
Law of the Workplace

Emily Gold Waldman

White Plains
Preston Hall 312 |
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Teaching Assistant
Jennifer Chin

Biography

Professor Emily Gold Waldman joined the Pace 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 Pace, 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鶹ý2005, 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鶹ý2012 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.

Education

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

Honors & Awards

  • 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

Selected Publications

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

Articles:

  • Parents at the Schoolhouse Gate, 104 N.C. L. Rev. ­­__ (2025) (forthcoming)
  • , 11 Belmont L. Rev. ­­239 (2024) (symposium issue)
  • Period Rhetoric and Partisan Politics, 57 Family L.Q. 265 (2024)
  • 108 Minn. L. Rev. 1531 (2023)
  • , 99 Wash U. L. Rev. 1531 (2022) (with Bridget J. Crawford and Naomi R. Cahn)
  • , 43 Harv. J.L. & Gender 1 (2022) (with Bridget J. Crawford and Naomi R. Cahn)
  • , 2022 U. Chi. L. Forum (2022) (with Naomi R. Cahn and Bridget J. Crawford)
  • , 97 NYU L. Rev. Online 6 (2022) (with Bridget J. Crawford)
  • , 41 Colum. J. Gender & L. 218 (2021)
  • , 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:

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

Related News and Stories

In the Media

Pace Law Professors Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman co-authored an article in Standard Media exploring the legal, medical, and social dimensions of women鶹ýs health. Their work sheds light on an often-overlooked topic and reflects their ongoing commitment to public education and gender equity.

In the Media

Haub Law Professor Emily Waldman is featured in Retro Report, discussing the lasting impact of Tinker v. Des Moines on students鶹ý free speech rights.

Faculty and Staff

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 鶹ý Professors Emily Gold Waldman and Bridget J. Crawford have published 鶹ýHot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It. Their goal is to replace the legal and cultural silence surrounding menopause with a deeper understanding.