New York Fellow Catherine J. Ross
September 30, 2008, Fellows in the news
During the 2008-2009 academic year, Catherine J. Ross will be a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton N.J., where she will be writing a book on pluralism, children’s rights and conflicts over values in public schools.
Professor Ross joined the faculty of the George Washington University Law School in 1996 and has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston College. Before she became a law professor, Ross was a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. Prior to attending law school, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Yale Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and an assistant professor at the Child Study Center of the Yale School of Medicine.
Ross is a former chair of the ABA’s Steering Committee on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children and a current co-chair of the Committee on the Rights of Children of the ABA’s Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. She is a former chair of the Section on Law and Communitarianism of the Association of American Law Schools. She has served on the committee that oversees the ABA’s law school accreditation process, as well as the ABA Coalition for Justice. Professor Ross serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Family Courts Review and the Family Law Quarterly.
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