Diane Rosenfeld

Lecturer on Law

Additional Information

Ms. Rosenfeld will teach the seminar Title IX; the Title IX clinical workshop as well as the clinical workshop Gender Violence in the Fall Term 2009. She will teach the seminar Child Exploitation, Pornography; the seminar Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice and the clinical workshop Gender Violence in the Spring Term 2010.

Research Interests

• Gender Violence
• Domestic Violence
• Campus Sexual Assault
• Femicide
• Title IX

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Domestic Violence
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Femicide
• Gender Violence
• Sexual Assault
• Title IX
• Women's Human Rights

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Campus Sexual Assault
• Domestic Violence
• Gender Violence
• Title IX

Education

• University of Illinois B.A. 1982
• University of Wisconsin J.D. 1985
• Harvard Law School LL.M. 1996

Appointments

• Assistant Attorney General, Illinois, 1986
• Executive Assistant Attorney General, Illinois, 1991
• Senior Counsel, Violence Against Women Office, U.S. Department of Justice, 1997
• Lecturer on Women's Studies, Harvard University, 2000
• Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 2003-2006, 2003
• Lecturer on Law, 2005

Representative Publications

• "Sexual Coercion, Patriarchal Violence and Law," Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Coercion, eds. Richard Wrangham and Muller Martin (Harvard University Press, 2009 (forthcoming))
• "Correlative Rights and the Boundaries of Freedom: Protecting the Civil Rights of Endangered Women," 43 Harv. C.R.-C.L.L. Rev. 257 (2008)
• "Changing Social Norms? Title IX and Legal Activism: Concluding Remarks," 31 Harv. J. L. & Gender 407 (2008)
• "Why Doesn't He Leave?: Restoring Liberty and Equality to Battered Women," Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, eds. Catharine MacKinnon and Reva Siegel (Yale University Press, 2003)