Professor Baker received her law degree (with honors) from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a comments editor for the University of Chicago Law Review. She received her bachelor’s degree in social studies (magna cum laude) from Harvard-Radcliffe College. After graduating from law school, Professor Baker clerked for the Honorable Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, and from 1990 to 1993, she was a trial attorney with the Environmental Enforcement Section of the United States Department of Justice. Professor Baker teaches courses in family law, property, feminism and evidence. She has published articles on natural resource valuation, gender issues in the family, and numerous articles on rape.
Articles
Bionormativity and the Construction of Parenthood, Georgia Law Review (2008)
This piece explores the relationship between legal and biological parenthood. It examines how neither history,...
The Problem with Unpaid Work, St. Thomas Law Review (2007)
This article examines the problems with a social norm that assumes women should shoulder a...
Supporting Children, Balancing Lives, Pepperdine Law Review (2007)
This paper examines how U.S. child support policy validates traditional divisions of labor and thereby...
A Separate Crime of Reckless Sex, University of Chicago Law Review (2005)
This article attempts to make progress on both the problems of sexually transmitted disease and...
Books
Contributions to Books
Caban v. Mohammed, 441 U.S. 380 (1979), Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)
Michael H. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)
Asymmetric Parenthood, Reconceiving the Family: Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (2006)
This analysis of the American Law Institute's Principles of Family Law, Chapter 3, examines how...