Professor Schneider is a national expert on gender and law. She is the author of the
prize-winning book Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking (2000) and co-author of the
casebook Battered Women and the Law (2001) (with C. Dalton). She has also written
numerous chapters and articles on civil rights, feminist theory and lawmaking, and
women's rights, and has lectured all over the world on these issues. She has been a
Visiting Professor at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools. She is a member of the American
Law Institute and serves on the advisory boards of the Women's Rights Law Reporter,
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and Violence and Victims. In June 2000, Professor
Schneider was recognized by the National Organization of Women-NYC with a “Women of Power
and Influence Award.” She has been active in legal education, serving as a member of the
AALS's Executive Committee and on the Board of Governors of the Society of American
Law Teachers. She joined the faculty in 1983, after serving as a staff attorney with the
Rutgers Law School-Newark Constitutional Litigation Clinic, and as a staff attorney with
the Center for Constitutional Rights. Professor Schneider chairs the Law School's
Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program.

Articles

Revisiting Trauma and Recovery [Symposium: On Judith Herman] (forthcoming), Women's Stud. Q. (2008)
 
Student Stories [Symposium: Law Stories: Tales from Legal Practice, Experience and Education], 76 UMKC L. Rev. 839 (2008)
 

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The Dangers of Summary Judgment: Gender and Federal Civil Litigation, 59 Rutgers L. Rev. 705 (2007)
 

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Introduction: The New Economy and the Social Safety Net [Symposium: The New Economy and the Social Safety Net], 69 Brook. L. Rev. 395 (2004)
 

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Transnational Law as a Domestic Resource: Thoughts on the Case of Women’s Rights [Anna Hirsch Lecture], 38 New Eng. L. Rev. 689 (2004)
 

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Books

Women and the Law Stories (forthcoming) (with Stephanie M. Wildman) (2010)
 
Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice, with Teacher's Manual (with C. Hanna, J. Greenberg, and C. Dalton) (2008)
 
Law Reform Efforts for Battered Women: Past, Present and Future (1990)
 

Contributions to Books

Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy and Equality , Women and the United States Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice (2003)
 
Introduction , Teach Your Students Well: Incorporating Domestic Violence into the Law School Curricula (2003)
 
Violence Against Women [panel] , Women’s Rights in Theory and Practice: Employment, Violence and Poverty (2002)
 
The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at the Century's End: The American Experience , Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the US and England (2001)
 
Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking (excerpted) , Cases and Materials on Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law (2000)
 

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