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Rachel Vorspan
Professor of Law & Director of Legal Writing


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Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023 		Email: rvorspan@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: (212)636-6829
Office: Room 145

Teaching

  • Legal Writing, English Legal History, and International Human Rights

Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D. 1979, cum laude
         Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1977-79; Book Review Officer, 1978-79
  • Columbia University, Ph.D. 1975, M.A. 1968 (History)
  • London School of Economics, Fulbright Scholar & Research Fellow, 1971-73
  • University of California, Berkeley, A.B. 1967 with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa

Experience

  • Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law, 1999-Present; Associate Professor of Law, 1994-99; Legal Writing Director, 1985-Present
  • Coordinator & Instructor, Legal Writing Program, New York University School of Law, 1982-85
  • Staff Attorney, Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit, Legal Aid Society of New York City, 1980-82
  • Law Clerk, Hon. Charles P. Sifton, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1979-80

Publications

  • Judicial Power and Moral Ideology in Wartine:  Shaping the Legal Process in World War I Britain, 87 Oregon Law Review 401 (2008)
  • Law and War: Individual Rights, Executive Authority, and Judicial Power in England During World War I, 38 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 261 (2005)
  • "Rational Recreation" and the Law: The Transformation of Urban Popular Leisure in Victorian England, 45 McGill Law Journal 891 (2000)
  • The Political Power of Nuisance Law: Labor Picketing and the Courts in Modern England, 1871-Present, 46 Buffalo Law Review 593 (1998)
  • "Freedom of Assembly" and the Right of Passage in Modern English Legal History, 34 San Diego Law Review 921 (1997)
  • Comment, Post-Discharge Coercion of Bankrupts by Private Creditors, 91 Harvard Law Review 1336 (1978)
  • Vagrancy and the New Poor Law in Late-Victorian and Edwardian England, 92 English Historical Review 59 (1977), translated into French and reprinted in Malcom Mansfield, Robert Salais & Noel Whiteside, eds., Aux sources du chomage (1880-1914): Une comparaison interdisciplinaire entre le France et la Grand Bretagne (1994)