Libby S. Adler

Professor Adler teaches Constitutional Law, Sexuality, Gender and the Law, and Family Law. At Northeastern, she also has taught Administrative Law and Trusts and Estates. She received the Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award for 2007-2008. In 2006, Professor Adler was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, where she taught Women and the Law, and in 2000, she was a visiting professor at the University of Frankfurt, where she taught a course on contemporary legal fallout from the Nazi labor program.

Prior to joining the permanent faculty, Professor Adler served Northeastern as a visiting professor in 1999-2000 and as a part-time lecturer in 1998-1999, while also a visiting researcher and graduate fellow at Harvard Law School. In the 1990s, she practiced as a policy attorney for the Massachusetts child support enforcement agency, drafting legislation and regulations.

Professor Adler has written extensively on sexuality, gender, family and children, including foster care, and draws heavily from queer and critical theory. She is a co-editor of the casebook Mary Joe Frug’s Women and the Law (4th ed.). She also has written about contemporary legal issues arising out of Nazism.