ELIZABETH D. KATZ Stanford Center for Law and History Fellow, Stanford Law School (434) 996-9066 • [email protected] • Website • SSRN CURRENT POSITION Stanford Law School Stanford Center for Law and History (Inaugural) Fellow, August 2017–present EDUCATION Harvard University, Ph.D. History expected 2019; M.A. History, 2015 Dissertation: Courting American Families: The Creation and Evolution of Courts of Domestic Relations (Committee: Nancy F. Cott, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, and Kenneth W. Mack) University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2009 Honors: Order of the Coif; Virginia Law Review; The Raven Society (University Honor Society) Research Assistant to Dean Risa Goluboff, Prof. Kerry Abrams (now Dean of Duke Law School), and Prof. A.E. Dick Howard University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, M.A. History, 2009 Thesis: How Automobile Accidents Stalled the Development of Interspousal Liability University of Virginia, B.A. History and Studies in Women and Gender, 2006 Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Highest Distinction (one of two history majors to receive honor in 2006); Richard Heath Dabney Prize for the Outstanding Thesis in United States History; Virginia Press Association 1st Place College Feature Writing Award Thesis: A Social History of Jews and Blacks in the Antebellum South Research Assistant to Prof. Elizabeth Merwin (now Vice-Dean of Duke School of Nursing) TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Primary Interests: Family Law, Criminal Law, Torts, Legal History, Criminal Procedure and Adjudication Additional Interests: Civil Procedure, Employment Discrimination, Evidence, Juvenile Justice, Law & Religion, Professional Responsibility, Property, Women/Gender/Sexuality & Law PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS Criminal Law in a Civil Guise: The Evolution of Family Courts and Support Laws, 86 U. CHI. L. REV. (forthcoming 2019) (job talk paper). “Racial and Religious Democracy”: Identity, Employment, and Civil Rights in New York City (completed draft). Judicial Patriarchy and Domestic Violence: A Challenge to the Conventional Family Privacy Narrative, 21 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 379 (2015). Republished in WOMEN AND THE LAW 345 (Tracy A. Thomas ed., 2016). Kathryn T. Preyer Award from American Society for Legal History. Women’s Involvement in International Constitution-Making, in FEMINIST CONSTITUTIONALISM: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 204 (Beverly Baines, Daphne Barak-Erez, & Tsvi Kahana, eds., 2012). Zora Neale Hurston Essay Award for best UVA graduate student paper on women or gender. How Automobile Accidents Stalled the Development of Interspousal Liability, 94 VA. L. REV. 1213 (2008). University of Virginia Law School Alumni Association Best Note Award (selected by faculty). Differential Access to Quality Rural Healthcare: Professional and Policy Challenges, 29 FAM. & COMMUNITY HEALTH 186 (2006) (with Elizabeth Merwin and Audrey Snyder). SELECTED LEGAL EXPERIENCE Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C. Associate, Sept. 2010–July 2013, Summer Associate, Summer 2008 Represented clients in matters including white collar crime and legal ethics at the trial and appellate levels. 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, Sept. 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, and divorce. United States District Court, District of Maryland, Baltimore, Md. Law Clerk, The Honorable J. Frederick Motz, Aug. 2009–Aug. 2010 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, including the prevailing argument in Bloate v. United States, 559 U.S. 196 (2010), which involved interpretation of the federal Speedy Trial Act. United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Intern, The Honorable James I. Cohn, Summer 2007 SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 2017 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women & Politics, Carrie Chapman Catt Center, 2017 Dissertation Research Fellowship on the Study of the American Republic, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, 2017 Fellowship in the History of Family and Kinship, German Historical Institute (declined), 2017 Cromwell Foundation Early Career Scholar Fellowship, American Society for Legal History, 2016 Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Research Grant, Harvard University, 2016 2 History and Public Policy Doctoral Fellowship, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, 2016 Whipple V. N. Jones Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University, 2014 Family Law Book Award, Virginia State Bar, 2009 Elsie Cabell Merit Scholarship, University of Virginia School of Law, 2008 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Stanford University, History Department Senior Thesis Advisor for History Major, Spring 2018–current Harvard University, History Department Senior Thesis Advisor for History Concentrators, Fall 2015–Spring 2017 Teaching Fellow for History of Sexuality in the Modern West, Prof. Nancy F. Cott, Fall 2016 Teaching Fellow for What Is Family History?, Prof. Jane Kamensky, Spring 2016 Teaching Fellow for United Nations: A Global History, Prof. Emma Rothschild, Fall 2015 University of Virginia School of Law Dillard (Teaching) Fellow for Legal Research & Writing, Prof. Ruth Buck, Fall 2007–Spring 2008 ACADEMIC SERVICE American Society for Legal History Member of Standing Committee on the Annual Meeting, Dec. 2015–current Stanford Law School Co-organizer of the Stanford Center for Law and History’s inaugural conference on “Legal Histories of Policing and Surveillance,” held Apr. 20, 2018 Harvard Law School Student Fellow for Law and History Program of Study, Fall 2015–Spring 2017 National Collegiate Research Conference Judge for History Projects at Fifth Annual National Collegiate Research Conference, Jan. 2016 Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Student Co-Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Workshop, Fall 2014–Spring 2015 PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED WORKSHOPS “‘Mending Broken Families’: Probation Oversight and the Enforcement of Gender Norms,” American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, Santa Clara University, Aug. 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, June 19, 2018. Stanford Law Fellows Workshop, Stanford Law School, Oct. 30, 2017. “The Forgotten Family Court Origins of Probation,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 9, 2018. 3 “’Racial and Religious Democracy’: Identity, Employment, and Civil Rights in New York City,” Stanford Center for Law and History Workshop, Stanford Law School, May 24, 2018. Stanford Law Fellows Workshop, Stanford Law School, May 14, 2018. U.S. History Workshop, Stanford University History Department, Apr. 18, 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, Apr. 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 Humanities Center, Apr. 20, 2018. “The Criminalization of Men’s Family Support Duties,” American Society for Legal History Student Research Colloquium, Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 26, 2017. 20th Century U.S. History Workshop, Harvard University, Apr. 12, 2017. “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, Mar. 31, 2017. “Courting American Families: The Creation and Evolution of Courts of Domestic Relations,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop, Stanford University, Mar. 30, 2017. Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop, New Orleans, La., June 1, 2016. “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 (Bloomington) Maurer School of Law, June 5, 2015. “Litigating Divorce in the Nation’s Capital during the Progressive Era,” Center for History and Economics Graduate Workshop, Harvard University, Apr. 9, 2015. Gender & Sexuality Workshop, Harvard University, Apr. 1, 2015. “Judicial Patriarchy and Legal Responses to Domestic Violence in the Early Twentieth Century: A Challenge to the Conventional Family Privacy Narrative,” Gender & Sexuality Workshop, Harvard University, Feb. 12, 2014. “For Love of Justice: Redefining Feminist Legal History,” Roundtable Participant, The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University