18 Facts About Martha Fineman

Martha Albertson Fineman was born on 1943 and is an American jurist, legal theorist and political philosopher.

Martha Fineman is Robert W Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law.

Martha Fineman held the Maurice T Moore Professorship at Columbia Law School.

Martha Fineman is a progressive liberal thinker; she has been an affiliated scholar of John Podesta's Center for American Progress.

Subsequently, Fineman moved to Columbia Law School, where she was appointed as the Maurice T Moore Professor of Law in 1990.

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Martha Fineman went on to become the first Dorothea S Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School in 1999.

Martha Fineman is the founding director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, which she founded in 1984 and which has been housed by the University of Wisconsin Law School, Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, and Emory University School of Law.

Martha Fineman seeks to bring together other feminists to validate established expertise and encourage newly emerging scholars.

Martha Fineman directs the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative which was founded in 2008 at Emory Law School.

Martha Fineman is an affiliated scholar of the Center for American Progress.

Martha Fineman now focuses on the legal implications of universal dependency, vulnerability and justice.

Yet the fact that dependency is unavoidable in any society and must be dealt with to sustain the polity, Martha Fineman contends, gives the state the responsibility to support caretaking.

Fundamental to Martha Fineman's scholarly work is a feminist critique of notions of equality, the liberal subject and prevailing anti-discrimination politics.

In 2010, Martha Fineman held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the UCD Equality Studies Center which was awarded by the European Union.

In 2012, Fineman held the Cecil H and Ida Green Visiting Professorship at the University of British Columbia.

In 2017, Martha Fineman was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of American Law Schools.

Martha Fineman has been listed in the top ten most cited scholars in multiple areas of legal scholarship, including critical legal theory and family law.

Martha Fineman has edited or co-edited the following legal theory volumes:.