Elizabeth D. Katz (434) 996-9066  [email protected]  https://law.stanford.edu/directory/elizabeth-katz/

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Stanford Law School, Stanford, California Stanford Center for Law and History Fellow, August 2017-present

Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies, Cambridge, MA Dissertation Research Fellow on the Study of the American Republic, January-May 2017

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D. History expected 2019; M.A. History, 2015 Dissertation: “Courting American Families: The Creation and Evolution of Courts of Domestic Relations” (Advisors: Nancy F. Cott, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, and Kenneth W. Mack) Fields: U.S. Legal History; Early American History to 1815; U.S. History from 1815; European Legal History

University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Charlottesville, VA M.A. American Legal History, 2009 Thesis: “How Automobile Accidents Stalled the Development of Interspousal Liability”

University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA J.D., 2009 Honors: Order of the Coif; Virginia Law Review; The Raven Society (University Honor Society)

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA B.A. History and Studies in Women and Gender, 2006 Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Highest Distinction (one of two history majors in graduating class to receive honor) Thesis: “A Social History of Jews and Blacks in the Antebellum South”

Oxford University, University College, Oxford, United Kingdom Program on Comparative Legal Cultures, Summer 2004

PUBLICATIONS

“Family Law as Criminal Law: The Forgotten Criminal Origins of Modern Family Laws and Courts.” University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming 2019).

“Judicial Patriarchy and Domestic Violence: A Challenge to the Conventional Family Privacy Narrative.” William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 21, no. 2 (Winter 2015): 379-471. Republished in Women and the Law, 2016 Edition, edited by Tracy A. Thomas, 345-433. Thomson Reuters, 2016. (Received Kathryn T. Preyer Award from American Society for Legal History.)

“Women’s Involvement in International Constitution-Making.” In Feminist Constitutionalism: Global Perspectives, edited by Beverly Baines, Daphne Barak-Erez, and Tsvi Kahana, 204-22. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. (Received Zora Neale Hurston Essay Award for best University of Virginia graduate student paper focused on women or gender.)

“How Automobile Accidents Stalled the Development of Interspousal Liability.” Virginia Law Review 94, no. 5 (Sept. 2008): 1213-58. (Received University of Virginia Law School Alumni Association Best Note Award, faculty- selected graduation award for best Note in Law School publication.)

With Elizabeth Merwin and Audrey Snyder, “Differential Access to Quality Rural Healthcare: Professional and Policy Challenges.” Family & Community Health 29, no. 3 (July/Sept. 2006): 186-94.

SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association (2017) Fellowship in the History of Family and Kinship, German Historical Institute (declined) (2017) Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant (2017) Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, Carrie Chapman Catt Center (2017) William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Early Career Scholar Fellowship, with American Society for Legal History (2016) Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Research Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (2016) Graduate Seed Grant, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University (2016) History and Public Policy Doctoral Fellowship, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School (2016) Smith College Travel-to-Collections Grant (2016) Whipple V. N. Jones Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University (2014) Family Law Book Award, Virginia State Bar (2009) Dean’s Fund Travel Fellowship, University of Virginia School of Law (2009) Society of Fellows Travel Fellowship, University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2009) Elsie Cabell Merit Scholarship, University of Virginia School of Law (2008)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Harvard University, History Department, Cambridge, MA Teaching Fellow for “History of Sexuality in the Modern West,” Professor Nancy F. Cott, Fall 2016 In course designed for undergraduates from all years and majors, led discussion sections and provided written and oral feedback on student work.

Teaching Fellow for “What Is Family History?” Professor Jane Kamensky, Spring 2016 In course for newly declared history concentrators, provided instruction on historical research and writing, graded student papers, and facilitated peer-review discussions of student work.

Teaching Fellow for “United Nations: A Global History,” Professor Emma Rothschild, Fall 2015 Led discussion sections and provided written and oral guidance on students’ research projects and midterms; delivered lecture on “Women, International Law, and the United Nations.”

University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA Dillard Fellow (Teaching Fellow) for Legal Research and Writing, Ruth Buck, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Provided written and in-person feedback to first-year students on legal writing and oral advocacy projects in yearlong course. Research Assistant to Professor Kerry Abrams, Summer 2009 Conducted research on family law topics including marriage fraud and states’ approaches to property distribution after annulment. Research Assistant to Dean Risa Goluboff, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Identified and analyzed cases and primary sources related to vagrancy law and maintained extensive secondary sources bibliography. Research Assistant to Professor A.E. Dick Howard, Summer-Fall 2007 Assembled and synthesized examples of constitution drafting from around the world to create model process; edited publication for United States Institute of Peace.

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ACADEMIC SERVICE

American Society for Legal History Member of Standing Committee on the Annual Meeting, December 2015-current

Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA Co-organizer of the Stanford Center for Law and History’s inaugural conference on “Legal Histories of Policing and Surveillance,” held April 20, 2018.

Stanford University, History Department, Stanford, CA Senior Thesis Advisor for History Major, Spring 2018-current Azucena Marquez, “Ambivalent Empowerment and a Shift in Bias: Women’s Private and Public Legal Education in the United States, 1960s-2000s”

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA Student Fellow for Law and History Program of Study, Fall 2015-Spring 2017

Harvard University, History Department, Cambridge, MA Senior Thesis Advisor for History Concentrators, Fall 2015-Spring 2017 Dominique Luongo, “Fighting Oppression: The Emergence of WWII Refugee Support among Radcliffe and Harvard Undergraduates” (High Honors, 2017) Katharine Hebb, “Peace in the ‘Mother Heart’: Adventure, Diplomacy, and Discrimination at the International Congress of Women at The Hague, 1915” (High Honors, 2016)

National Collegiate Research Conference Judge for History Projects at Fifth Annual National Collegiate Research Conference, January 23, 2016

Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge MA Student Co-Coordinator, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Gender & Sexuality Workshop, Fall 2014-Spring 2015

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

“‘Mending Broken Families’: Probation Oversight and the Enforcement of Gender Norms,” Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, (Scheduled) August 3, 2018.

“Family Law as Criminal Law: The Forgotten Criminal Origins of Modern Family Laws and Courts,” Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, Cardozo Law School, New York, New York, June 19, 2018.

“The Forgotten Family Court Origins of Probation,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 7-10, 2018.

“Racial Politics in Juvenile Courts,” International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference on Inequality and the Future of Family Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 27, 2018.

“The Contentious History of Identity-Matching in Probation Treatment,” Stanford Center for Law and History Conference on Legal Histories of Policing and Surveillance, Stanford, California, April 20, 2018.

“The Politics of Identity in the First Courts of Domestic Relations, 1910-1930,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Stanford University, Stanford, California, March 31, 2017.

“Globalization, Transnational Families, and the Harmonization of Private International Law: The Creation of the United Nations Convention on the Recovery Abroad of Maintenance,” Globalism & the Law in Historical Perspective Legal History Consortium Conference, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, June 5, 2015.

Roundtable Participant, “For Love of Justice: Redefining Feminist Legal History” (chaired by Jane DeHart and Leandra Zarnow, with remarks by Reva Siegel, Constance Backhouse, Serena Mayeri, and Joan Sangster), The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Massachusetts Amherst, June 11, 2011.

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“‘Wife Beating’ and ‘Uninvited Kisses’ in the Supreme Court and Society in the Early Twentieth Century” Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, Columbia Law School, New York, New York, June 5, 2010. Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 19, 2010. Kathryn T. Preyer Scholar Panel, American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 13, 2009.

“Women’s Involvement in International Constitution-Making,” panel on “Between Constitutional Law and the International Sphere,” International Conference on Feminist Constitutionalism, Queen’s College, Kingston, Canada, Feb. 28, 2009.

INVITED WORKSHOPS

American Society for Legal History Student Research Colloquium 2017 Workshop for eight advanced graduate students working on legal history projects

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop 2017 Interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students from diverse disciplines

Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop 2016 Competitive interdisciplinary workshop for advanced graduate students

Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop 2010 Selective workshop for untenured professors, postdoctoral scholars, and senior graduate students

Kathryn T. Preyer Scholar Award, American Society for Legal History 2009 Annual paper prize and workshop panel for two junior scholars in legal history

SELECTED LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C. Associate, September 2010-July 2013 Summer Associate, Summer 2008 Represented clients in litigation matters including white collar, lawyer professional rules of conduct, appellate, and general civil litigation. Advised several leading global technology companies regarding data privacy laws and compliance with electronic surveillance requests from U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies. Received recognition for pro bono work through the Washington Lawyers’ Committee Outstanding Achievement Award (2012) and the D.C. Bar Capital Pro Bono High Honor Roll (2011, 2012).

Neighborhood Legal Services Program, Washington, D.C. Pro Bono Lawyer on rotation from Covington & Burling, September 2012-March 2013 Provided free legal services to low-income residents of the District of Columbia; litigated family law cases including custody and visitation, child support, domestic violence, and divorce.

United States District Court, District of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland Law Clerk, The Honorable J. Frederick Motz, August 2009-August 2010 Drafted opinions and bench memoranda on a wide range of legal issues, including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, contract disputes, the Individuals with Disabilities Act, discriminatory lending, antitrust, employment discrimination, and zoning.

University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Clinic, Charlottesville, VA Student Member, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Identified promising cases for Writs of Certiorari; contributed substantial research and writing to legal briefs submitted to U.S. Supreme Court; prevailed in Bloate v. United States, which involved interpretation of the federal Speedy Trial Act.

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United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Intern, The Honorable James I. Cohn, Summer 2007 Drafted opinions and legal research memoranda regarding employment discrimination, the Social Security Act, securities fraud, diversity jurisdiction, and attorney’s fees.

BAR ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia United States District Court for the District of Maryland United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Virginia

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Historical Association American Society for Legal History Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Law and Society Association Organization of American Historians

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