Elizabeth D. Katz
Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law

Biography
Professor Elizabeth D. Katz is an award-winning legal historian. Her research explores the development of family law and criminal law doctrines and institutions, with special attention to the influence of gender, religion, and race.
Areas of Expertise
- Criminal Law
- Family Law
- Race and the Law
- Children & the Law
- Law & Religion
- State Constitutional Law
- U.S. Legal History
- Women & Gender History
Selected Publications
- Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women’s Legal Right to Hold Public Office, 33 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 110 (2022).
- “Racial and Religious Democracy”: Identity and Equality in Midcentury Courts, 72 Stanford Law Review 1467 (2020).
- Criminal Law in a Civil Guise: The Evolution of Family Courts and Support Laws, 86 University of Chicago Law Review 1241 (2019).
- “A Woman Stumps Her State”: Nellie G. Robinson and Women’s Right to Hold Public Office in Ohio, 53 Akron Law Review 313 (2019).
- Judicial Patriarchy and Domestic Violence: A Challenge to the Conventional Family Privacy Narrative, 21 William & Mary Journal of Women & The Law 379 (2015).
Education
- BA, University of Virginia
- MA, University of Virginia
- JD, University of Virginia
- PhD, Harvard University
Prior Appointments
- Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
- Fellow, Stanford Law School Center on Law and History
- Law Clerk, J. Frederick Motz, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland