Emily Bazelon was born on March 4,1971 and is an American journalist.
24 Facts About Emily Bazelon
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Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a senior research fellow at Yale Law School, and co-host of the Slate podcast Political Gabfest.
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Emily Bazelon has written two national bestsellers published by Penguin Random House: Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy and Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.
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Emily Bazelon's father was an attorney and her mother was a psychiatrist.
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Emily Bazelon attended Germantown Friends School, where she was on the tennis team.
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Emily Bazelon has three sisters: Jill Bazelon, who founded an organization that provides financial literacy classes free of charge to low-income high school students and individuals in several cities; Lara Bazelon, an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law and prominent advocate for overturning wrongful convictions; and Dana Bazelon, senior policy counsel to Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner.
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Emily Bazelon graduated from Yale College in 1993, where she was managing editor of The New Journal.
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Emily Bazelon received her JD from Yale Law School in 2000 and was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.
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Emily Bazelon is a writer for The New York Times Magazine and former senior editor of Slate.
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Emily Bazelon has written on subjects such as voting rights, the Hamdan v Rumsfeld Guantanamo detainee due process trial and the alleged post-abortion syndrome.
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Emily Bazelon's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and other publications.
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Emily Bazelon is a senior research scholar in Law and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School.
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Emily Bazelon is affiliated with the Law and Media Program of Yale Law School.
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Emily Bazelon wrote a series on bullying and cyberbullying for Slate, called "Bull-E".
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Emily Bazelon authored a book about bullying and school climate published by Random House, titled Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy.
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Emily Bazelon has reported critically on the anti-abortion movement and opponents of legal abortion, including "pro-life feminists" and proponents of the concept of post-abortion syndrome, while being supportive of abortion providers and pro-choice federal judges.
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Emily Bazelon has described crisis pregnancy centers as being "all about bait-and-switch" and "falsely maligning" the abortion procedure.
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Emily Bazelon has discussed her support for legal abortion on the Double X blog.
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In 2018 and 2019, Emily Bazelon published a number of articles on criminal justice reform.
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Emily Bazelon's book Charged focuses on the role of prosecutors, the history of "tough on crime" politics in elections for that office, and the new generation of reformist prosecutors.
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In June 2022, Emily Bazelon published an article in The New York Times on gender affirming healthcare, titled "The Battle Over Gender Therapy".
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Emily Bazelon interviewed parents from gender-critical organization Genspect who defined the rise in transgender-identified children as a "gender cult" and mass craze, "suggesting that exposure to transgender kids, education about trans people, and trans ideas on the internet could spread transness to others".
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Emily Bazelon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
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In 2020, Emily Bazelon's book Charged won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the current interest category and the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.