Emily Bazelon (born 1971) is a American journalist, senior editor for online magazine Slate, and a member of the faculty of Yale Law School. Her work as a writer primarily focuses on jurisprudence and family issues.
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Early life and career
Bazelon was raised in Philadelphia and attended Germantown Friends School. She graduated from Yale College in 1993 and from Yale Law School in 2000. She was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.[1] After law school she worked as a law clerk for Judge Kermit Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Work
Bazelon is a writer and senior editor of Slate.[1] She has written articles about many controversial subjects such as the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld trial[2] and post-abortion syndrome[3]. Bazelon is among the contributors to Slate's blog on women's issues, XX Factor, and likewise appears The Political Gabfest, a weekly Slate podcast with David Plotz and John Dickerson.
Before joining Slate Bazelon was a senior editor of Legal Affairs. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New Republic as well as other publications. She has worked as a reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area and as a freelance journalist in Israel.
Academe
Bazelon is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School.[1] Together with retired New York Times legal correspondent Linda Greenhouse, Bazelon is affiliated with the Law and Media Program of Yale Law School.[4]
Personal life
Bazelon is the granddaughter of Judge David L. Bazelon and second cousin twice removed of feminist Betty Friedan.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Senior Research Scholar in Law and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law". Yale Law School Faculty. Yale Law School. http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/EBazelon.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ Emily Bazelon (2006-03-27). "Invisible Men : Did Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl mislead the Supreme Court?". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2138750. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ Emily Bazelon (2002007-1-21). "Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21abortion.t.html. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ "Spotlight on Lamp". Yale Law School. 2008-11-18. http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissions/archive/2008/11/18/spotlight-on-lamp.aspx. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ Emily Bazelon (2006-02-05). "Shopping With Betty". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2135515/. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
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