Martha A. Field

Langdell Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Constitutional Law
• Disability Law
• Family Law
• Federal Courts
• Reproductive Technology

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Abortion
• Aids and Law
• Children and the Law
• Civil Rights and Litigation
• Civil Rights Legislation
• Constitutional Law
• Disability
• Family Law
• Medicine and the Law
• Mental Retardation and the Law
• New Reproductive Technologies
• Privacy
• Reproductive Technologies/Infertility Treatment
• Supreme Court

Education

• Radcliffe College B.A. 1965, Chinese History
• University of Chicago J.D. 1968

Appointments

• Visiting Professor of Law, 1978
• Professor of Law, 1979
• Langdell Professor of Law, 1998

Representative Publications

• Field, Martha A. & V. Sanchez. Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation (Harvard University Press 2000).
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• Field, Martha A. "Killing the Handicapped," 16 Harvard Women's Law Journal 79 (1993).
  
• Field, Martha A. Surrogate Motherhood (Harvard University Press 2nd ed. 1991).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Field, Martha A. "Testing for HIV Antibodies: Uses and Abuses," 16 American Journal of Law & Medicine 400 (1990).
  
• Field, Martha A. "Sources of Law: The Scope of Federal Common Law," 99 Harvard Law Review 881 (1986).
  
• Field, Martha A. "Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority:The Demise of a Misguided Doctrine," 99 Harvard Law Review 84 (1985).
  
• Field, Martha A. "The Eleventh Amendment and Other Sovereign Immunity Doctrines," 126 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 515 (1978).
  

Bibliography

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