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Associate Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Ann E. Freedman is an Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law in Camden, New Jersey, where she teaches constitutional law, family law and domestic violence law. She has also taught Sex Discrimination and the Law; Reproduction, Sexuality and the Law; and Children, Families and the Law. As chair of the law school’s Lawyering Program Committee, she provides faculty oversight to the law school’s clinical programs, including the Domestic Violence Clinic, and the Pro Bono Domestic Violence Program, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2005. Professor Freedman also serves on the advisory board of DV LEAP, the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project, directed by her colleague, Professor Joan Meier of George Washington University Law School.
Professor Freedman serves as the advisor to the Women’s Law Caucus, and for the Mary Philbrook Public Interest Award Celebration, a gala reception held each fall since 1986, to celebrate outstanding contributions to the public interest by lawyers, judges, and Rutgers law students.
Professor Freedman has served as a consultant to the New Jersey Commission on Sex Discrimination in the Statutes, and to both the Subcommittee on Gender Issues In Family Law, and the Subcommittee on Equitable Distribution, N.J. Supreme Court Family Practice Committee. She has testified on the Equal Rights Amendment before subcommittees of both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and before various state legislative bodies. Between 1976-1982, she served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause.
Professor Freedman was a founder in 1974 of the Women’s Law Project, a public interest law firm located in Philadelphia, and from 1976-1979, served as an Assistant Defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, representing indigent defendants in juvenile and adult criminal courts. Professor Freedman taught previously at Georgetown University Law Center, Villanova Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1968, and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1971.
Professor Freedman participates actively in the Group Motion Dance Workshop in Philadelphia and the Essential Experience Community, and is a graduate of a four year training program in Integrated Kabbalistic Healing. She is married and has two grown sons.
Publications
Her most recent article is "Fact-finding in Civil Domestic Violence Cases: Secondary Traumatic Stress and The Need for Compassionate Witnesses," 11 Am. U. J. of Gender, Soc. Pol’y & Law 567 (2003).
Professor Freedman is co-author of a pathbreaking textbook, Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice and Theory, (1996) and of other books on sex discrimination law and the Equal Rights Amendment. She is also a co-author “The Equal Rights Amendment: A Constitutional Basis for Rights for Women,”, 81 Yale L.J. 871 (1971), which gave the Equal Rights Amendment its modern legal form, and author of "Sex Equality, Sex Differences and the Supreme Court," 92 Yale L.J. 913 (1983).