Northeastern University, JD 1994
Harvard University, LLM 1998
Office: 22 Cargill Hall
Mail: 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373-7513
Fax: (617) 373-5056
E-mail: l.adler@neu.edu
Libby S. Adler
Professor Adler teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Sexuality, Gender and the Law. Prior to joining the permanent faculty, she served 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, Professor Adler practiced as a policy attorney for the Massachusetts child support enforcement agency, drafting legislation and regulations. Her scholarship has focused largely 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.).
Professor Adler has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and also at the University of Frankfurt, where she taught a course on the Nazi labor program. She also has written about contemporary legal issues arising out of Nazism. Professor Adler received the Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award for 2007-2008.
- “The Gay Agenda,” __ Michigan Journal of Gender & Law __ (forthcoming, 2009).
- “Child Sex Work in the United States,” The Chicago Companion to the Child, forthcoming.
- Mary Joe Frug’s Women and the Law, 4th edition., ed. with Crooms, Greenberg, Minow, and Roberts, 2008
- “The Dignity of Sex,” 17 UCLA Women's Law Journal 1, 2008.
- Book review, “Civil Unions and Civic Wars: Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights, 2004,” 11 Gay & Lesbian Quarterly 4, 2005.
- “The Future of Sodomy,” 32 Fordham Urban Law Journal 197, 2005.
- “Rage and Critique: One Jewish Girl’s Story,” 1 Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left 1, 2005.
- “California’s Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act and American Preemption Doctrine,” 4 German Law Journal 1193, 2003.
- “An Essay on the Production of Youth Prostitution,” 55 Maine Law Review 191, 2003.
- “The Forgetfulness of Noblesse: A Critique of the Foundation to Compensate Slave and Forced Laborers of the Third Reich” (with Zumbansen), 39 Harvard Journal on Legislation 1, 2002 (also in NS-Zwangsarbeit: Erinnerung und Verantwortung/NS-Forced Labor: Remembrance and Responsibility 333, ed. Zumbansen, 2002).
- “The Meanings of Permanence: A Critical Analysis of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997,” 38 Harvard Journal on Legislation 1, 2001.
- “A Short Essay on the Baring of Breasts,” 23 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 219, 2000.
- “Federalism and Family,” 8 Columbia Journal Gender & Law 197, 1999.
