Elizabeth Cooper

• Root-Tilden Scholar and Articles Editor, Annual Survey of American Law (1987-88)
• Law Clerk, Hon. Anne E. Thompson, United States District Court (1988-90)
• Skadden Fellow / Staff Counsel, ACLU AIDS Project in New York City (1990-92)
• Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and Vecchione (Newark NJ, 1992-94); Adjunct Clinical Professor in Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers University School of Law (Newark, 1992-94) 
• Clinical Instructor, Federal Litigation Clinic, Brooklyn Law School (1994-95)
• AALS, Section on Litigation, Chair
• Principal subjects: Legislative and Policy Advocacy Clinic; Fundamental Lawyering Skills

Education

• New York University, JD, 1988
• University of Pennsylvania, BA, 1983

Representative Publications

• The Power of Dignity, 84 Fordham L. Rev. 3 (2015) (written symposium on the impact of Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015)).
• Stories: The Case for Structured Rounds, in Theory and Practice in Clinical Pedagogy (Bryant et al. eds., 2014).
• Co-Reporter (with Hunter Carter) New York State Bar Association Special Committee on LGBT People and the Law, Report and Recommendation on Marriage Rights for Same Sex Couples (May 2009)
• "Introduction: Forty Years of Loving: Confronting Issues of Race, Sexuality, and the Family in the Twenty-First Century", 76 Fordham Law Review 2669 (2008) (with R.A. Lenhardt, Sheila Foster & Sonia Katyal)
• Global Collaboration in Law Schools: Lessons to Learn, 30 Fordham Int'l L.J. 346 (2007)
• "Who Needs Marriage?: Equality and the Role of the State." (Decisions and Families: A Symposium on Polygamy, Same-Sex Marriage, and Medical Decision Making), 8 Journal of Law & Family Studies 325 (2006)
• Reporter, New York State Bar Association, Report and Recommendations of the Special Committee to Study Issues Affecting Same-Sex Couples (October 2004)
• Social Risk and the Transformation of Public Health Law: Lessons from the Plague Years, 86 Iowa L. Rev. 871 (2001)
• Testing for Genetic Traits: The Need for a New Legal Doctrine of Informed Consent, 58 Maryland L. Rev. 346 (1999)
• I Diritti Spettanti ai Malati di AIDS ed ai Sieropositivi negli Stati Uniti: Una Valutazione Critica [The Legal Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in the United States: A Critical Assessment], in HIV/AIDS, Diritti E Responsabilita [HIV/AIDS, Rights and Responsibilities] (Elisabetta Simeoni ed. & Lorenza Crestoni trans., 1998).
• Introduction (with Benjamin Zipursky), Urban Bioethics: A Symposium on Health Care, Poverty, Autonomy, Co-sponsored by the Urban Law Journal and the Stein Center on Ethics and Public Interest Law, 24 Urban L.J. 663 (1998).
• Introduction, "Mandatory Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns: HIV, Drug Use and Welfare Policy," Urban Bioethics: A Symposium on Health Care, Poverty, Autonomy, 24 Urban L.J. 719 (1998).
• HIV Disease in Pregnancy -- Ethics, Law and Policy, 24 Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, December 1997.
• Why Mandatory HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns Must Fair: A Legal, Historical, and Public Policy Analysis, 3 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 13 (1996)
• Historical and Analytic Overview of Policy Issues Affecting Women Living with AIDS: A Blueprint for Learning from Our Past, 72 Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 283 (Summer Supplement 1995).
• Ethical, Legal and Policy Considerations (with Kathleen Powderly), in Primary Care of Women and Children with HIV Infection: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Patricia Kelly et al. eds., 1995).
• HIV Exceptionalism, Or, Making Plague Pay, 133 N.J.L.J. 1192 (March 29, 1993).
• When Being Ill is Illegal: Women and the Criminalization of HIV, Health/PAC Bulletin at 10 (Winter 1992).
• HIV-Infected Parents and the Law: Issues of Custody, Visitation and Guardianship, AIDS Agenda (Nan D. Hunter & William B. Rubenstein eds., 1992).
• AIDS Law: The Impact of AIDS on American Schools and Prisons, 1987 Ann. Surv. Am. L. (1987) 

Recent Courses

• Policy and Legislative Advocacy: Civil Rights and Poverty Clinic
• Social Justice Clinic
• Fundamental Lawyering Skills
• Institutional Reform Through The Courts
• Civil Rights Clinic  & Seminar
• Litigation Skills Clinic & Seminar
• Critical Race Theory (segment on public health)
• AIDS and the Law