Class of 1999-2000  American Civil Liberties Union Women’s Rights Project 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10004 212-549-2615 emartin@aclu.org

Placement: National Women’s Law Center

Profile:

Emily received her BA with highest honors from the University of Virginia.  She received her JD from Yale Law School.  At Yale, Emily was a Coker Scholar, edited the Yale Journal of Law and Gender, and worked on the Battered Women Temporary Restraining Order Project.  She also was a legal intern at the ACLU and the National Women’s Law Center, and was the student director of Community Legal Services Clinic at Yale.  She was also a summer associate at the firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett in New York.

Emily has clerked for Judge T.S. Ellis, III in the Eastern District Court of Virginia and for Senior Judge Wilfred Feinberg at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.  Currently, Emily is the Deputy Director of the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU. 

Publications:

Emily J. Martin, Venus and Mars in Separate Classrooms?  The Rise of Single-Sex Education, Florida Ass’n of Women Lawyers Journal, Spring 2007, at 3.

Emily J. Martin & Deborah A. Widiss, Fair Housing for Victims of Domestic Violence: Using Federal and State Laws to Promote Secure Housing for Survivors, ABA Domestic Violence Commission Newsletter, Feb. 2007.

Emily Martin & Katie Schwartzmann, Bad for Both Boys and Girls (guest editorial re: single-sex education), USA Today, Aug. 17, 2006, at 10A.

Emily J. Martin, Fair Housing for Battered Women: Preventing Homelessness Through Civil Rights Laws, Cornerstone (National Legal Aid & Defender Association), Winter 2005/2006, at 6.

Emily J. Martin, Housing Mobility as a Women’s Rights Issue, in Keeping the Promise: Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, Conference Report of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility 129 (Philip Tegeler et al. eds., 2005)

Emily J. Martin & Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Castle Rock v. Gonzales and the Future of Police Protection for Victims of Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence Report, Oct.-Nov. 2005, at 1.

Emily J. Martin, Making a Federal Case out of Women’s Concerns: The Supreme Court’s Hostility to Civil Rights for Battered Women, in Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights Under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice 79 (Denise C. Morgan et al. eds. 2005).

Emily J. Martin & Naomi S. Stern, Domestic Violence and Public and Subsidized Housing: Addressing the Needs of Battered Tenants Through Local Housing Policy, 38 Clearinghouse Rev. 553 (2005).

Nancy Duff Campbell, Judy Appelbaum, Karen Martinson, & Emily Martin, Be All That We Can Be: Lessons from the Military for Improving Our Nation’s Child Care System (2000).