Susan Deller Ross
Director, International Women's Human Rights Clinic, Professor of Law
B.A., Knox; J.D., New York University
Areas of Expertise:
Civil Rights and Discrimination, Clinical Education, Comparative and Foreign Law, Family Law, Gender and Sexuality and the Law
Professor Ross is Director of the Law Center's International Women's Human Rights Clinic. Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1983, she was Special Litigation Counsel...
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Professor Ross is Director of the Law Center's International Women's Human Rights Clinic. Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1983, she was Special Litigation Counsel to the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and before that the Clinical Director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project and an attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She also practiced privately with the firm of Bellamy, Blank, Goodman, Kelly, Ross and Stanley and has taught as an adjunct professor at the law schools of Columbia University, Rutgers, New York University, and George Washington University, and also as a visiting professor at George Washington. She has served on the Screening and Advisory Committees of the Women's Legal Defense Fund and has been General Counsel and a member of the Board of Directors of the Women's Equity Action League's Educational and Legal Defense Fund. Her recent writings include two books on civil rights law, Sex Discrimination and the Law (co-author, 1st ed. 1975; 2nd ed. 1996) and The Rights of Women(1st ed. 1973; co-author, 2nd ed. 1983; 3rd ed. 1984). Before receiving her J.D. she served for two years in the Peace Corps in West Africa (Ivory Coast).
Recent Scholarship
Books
- Susan Deller Ross, Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook (Phila., Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press 2008). [BOOK]
- Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to Equality (Claire Cushman ed., Susan Deller Ross, Jeffrey Rosen & Wendy Webster Williams editorial advisors, Wash., D.C.: CQ Press 2001). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- The International Women's Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law & the Federation of Women Lawyers: Kenya, Empowering Women With Rights to Inheritance – A Report on Amendments to the Law of Succession Act Necessary to Ensure Women’s Human Rights: A Human Rights Report and Proposed Legislation, 40 Geo. J. Int'l L. (The Summit) 65-225 (2009) (Susan Deller Ross, Ginger T. Faulk & Dan Gatti eds.). [WWW]
- Susan Deller Ross & Tamar Ezer, Fact-Finding as a Lawmaking Tool for Advancing Women's Human Rights, 7 Geo. J. Gender & L. 331-342 (2006). [HEIN] [L]
- Susan Deller Ross, Polygyny as a Violation of Women's Right to Equality in Marriage: An Historical, Comparative and International Human Rights Overview, 24 Delhi L. Rev. 22-40 (2002).
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Books
- Susan Deller Ross, Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook (Phila., Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press 2008). [BOOK]
- Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to Equality (Claire Cushman ed., Susan Deller Ross, Jeffrey Rosen & Wendy Webster Williams editorial advisors, Wash., D.C.: CQ Press 2001). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- The International Women's Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law & the Federation of Women Lawyers: Kenya, Empowering Women With Rights to Inheritance – A Report on Amendments to the Law of Succession Act Necessary to Ensure Women’s Human Rights: A Human Rights Report and Proposed Legislation, 40 Geo. J. Int'l L. (The Summit) 65-225 (2009) (Susan Deller Ross, Ginger T. Faulk & Dan Gatti eds.). [WWW]
- Susan Deller Ross & Tamar Ezer, Fact-Finding as a Lawmaking Tool for Advancing Women's Human Rights, 7 Geo. J. Gender & L. 331-342 (2006). [HEIN] [L]
- Susan Deller Ross, Polygyny as a Violation of Women's Right to Equality in Marriage: An Historical, Comparative and International Human Rights Overview, 24 Delhi L. Rev. 22-40 (2002).
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
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