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About Edward Stein

Edward Stein is the founding director of the Family Law, Policy, and Bioethics Program. His scholarship focuses on legal and philosophical topics related to families, sexual orientation, gender, reproduction, cognition and science. His publications include The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation and Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, both published by Oxford University Press. He has also been a contributor to the Huffington Post, Findlaw (The State of the Same-Sex Union Part One, Part Two, Part Three), and the American Constitution Society Blog.

Before joining the faculty at Cardozo, he taught in the philosophy departments at Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, Williams College, and NYU. He has been teaching at Cardozo since 2000.

Positions

2010 - Present Law School Director, Einstein-Cardozo Bioethics Masters Program
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2005 - Present Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2003 - Present Director, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law ‐ Gertrud Mainzer Program in Family Law, Policy and Bioethics
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2011 - 2017 Director, Cardozo's China State Intellectual Property Office Program, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2016 Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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2015 Visiting Professor, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
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2014 Visiting Scholar, UC Hastings College of Law
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2009 - 2014 Vice Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2008 - 2012 Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
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2009 Acting Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2007 Visiting Scholar, UCLA School of Law
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2000 - 2005 Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2001 - 2002 Law Clerk, Hon. Dolores Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
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1996 - 1997 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
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1995 - 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College
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1992 - 1995 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New York University
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1994 Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
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1991 - 1992 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Williams College
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Disciplines

Law

Research Interests

Grants

1999 Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Yale University
Research Fellowship
Role: Research Fellow
1996 - 1997 Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Yale University
Teaching Fellowship
Role: Teaching Fellow
1994 - 1995 University Curricular Challenge Grant
New York University
Role: Recipient
1987 - 1991 Mellon Fellowship for Graduate Study in the Humanities
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Role: Recipient
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2017 - Present Chair, NY Area LGBT Law Workshop
2008 - Present Co-Founder & Co-Chair, New York Area Family Law Workshop
2008 - Present Advisory Board, Sexuality and Law, Social Science Research Network
1997 - Present Member, Journal of Homosexuality, Editorial Board
2008 - 2017 Member, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Faculty Advisory Board
2007 - 2010 Chair, NY Area LGBT Law Workshop
2006 - 2008 Member, "What sorts of people should there be?" research group, University of Alberta
2007 Co-Founder, Emerging Family Law Scholars Conference
2006 - 2007 Member, Advisory Board, LGBTQ America Today
2005 - 2007 Member, LGBT Rights Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
2004 - 2005 Faculty Advisor, Same-Sex Marriage Conference, Yale Law School
1998 - 2002 Advisor, Program Committee, American Philosophical Association
1998 - 1999 Member, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, American Philosophical Association
1996 - 1997 Chair, Institute for Social and Policy Studies Colloquium, Yale University
1993 - 1995 Co-Chair, Humanities Research Colloquium on Gay & Lesbian Studies, NYU
1993 - 1994 Member, Gender Studies Committee for M.A. in Liberal Studies, NYU
1992 - 1994 Member, Women's Studies Advisory Board, NYU
1989 Chair, Mellon Fellowships in Humanities Conference, Bryn Mawr College
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Honors and Awards

  • Award for Extraordinary Leadership (Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 2014)
  • Residential Fellowship at Bellagio Center (Rockefeller Foundation, 2008)
  • Bauer Faculty Research Fellowship (Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 2008)
  • Dukeminier Award, Best Sexual Orientation Law Review Article (UCLA School of Law, 2001)
  • Sloan Prize for Essay in Philosophy of Science (MIT, 1990)
  • Henry Rutgers Conger Memorial Writing Prize (Williams College, 1987)
  • Arthur B. Graves Essay Prize for Philosophy (Williams College, 1987)
  • Phi Beta Kappa (Williams College, 1987)
  • John W. Miller Prize in Philosophy (Williams College, 1986)

Education

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BA, Williams College
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PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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JD, Yale University
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Links

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Media Appearances (1)

OpEds & Online Commentary (13)

Presentations (4)

Quoted by the Media (8)