(202)994-9817 (fax)

ncahn@main.nlc.gwu.edu
 

WORK EXPERIENCE
 

7/99-Present Professor,

7/93-7/99 Associate Professor, The George Washington University Law School
 

Teaching Contracts, Family Law, and Trusts and Estates.
 

8/98-1/99 Visiting Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Taught Family Law I
 

7/91-6/93 Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
 

Taught two courses: Sex Discrimination Clinic and International and Comparative Women's Rights.
 

8/88-6/93 Assistant Director, Georgetown University Law Center Sex Discrimination Clinic
 

Taught in law school clinic in which students represented victims of domestic violence in D.C. Superior Court; issues involved family law and related topics.

7/91-6/93 Co-Director, Emergency Domestic Relations Project,

Georgetown University Law Center
 

Supervised project which provided counseling, legal referrals, and court negotiation services to victims of domestic violence.
 

4/87-8/88 Attorney, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC
 

Worked in litigation department, specializing in education desegregation cases; represented clients in pro bono domestic relations cases
 

8/86-3/87 Attorney, Dolkart & Zavos, Washington, DC
 

Worked in small firm concentrating on employment discrimination and domestic relations cases.
 

7/84-8/86 Staff Attorney/Fellow, Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
 

Served as Fellow in law school clinic representing low and moderate income tenant groups; taught a weekly seminar and supervised 7-8 students.
 

4/84-7/84 Staff Attorney, Community Legal Services, Philadelphia, PA
 

Litigated in family law unit of legal services office; interviewed clients, wrote briefs, and appeared in court.
 

9/83-4/84 Law Clerk, Division of Market Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC
 

EDUCATION
 

LL.M. (Advocacy) 1989, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
 

J.D. 1983, Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY
 

Honors: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1982-83;

Charles Evans Hughes Public Interest Scholar;

Teaching Fellow, Civil Procedure and Property
 

A.B. 1979, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

Looking at Marriage, __ Mich. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2000)(book review)
 

Children's Interests in a Familial Context: Poverty, Foster Care, and Adoption, 60 Ohio St. 

L.J. 1189 (1999)
 

Comment: Models of Family Privacy, 67 Geo. Wash. U.L. Rev. 1225 (1999)
 

Gendered Identities: Women and Household Work, 44 Vill. L. Rev. 525 (1999)
 

The Moral Complexities of Family Law, 50 Stan. L. Rev. 225 (1997)(review essay)
 

Representing Race Outside of Explicitly Racialized Contexts, 95 Mich. L. Rev. 965 (1997)
 

Reframing Child Custody Decisionmaking, 58 Ohio State L.J. 1 (1997)
 

Pragmatic Questions About Parental Liability Statutes, 1996 Wis. L. Rev. 399
 

Foreword: Responsible Lawyers, 63 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 921 (1995)
 

Family Law, Federalism, and the Federal Courts, 79 Iowa L. Rev. 1073 (1994)
 

Family Issue(s), 61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 325 (1994) (book review)
 

Inconsistent Stories, 80 Geo. L.J. 2475 (1993)
 

The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Contemporary Proceedings, 61 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1754 (1993)
 

The Looseness of Legal Language: The Reasonable Woman Standard in Theory and in Practice, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 1398 (1992)
 

Speaking Differences, 90 Mich. L. Rev. 1705 (1992) (book review)
 

Styles of Lawyering, 43 Hastings L.J. 1039 (1992)
 

Civil Images of Battered Women: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Child Custody Decisions, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 1041 (1991)
 

Defining Feminist Litigation, 14 Harv. Women's L.J. 1 (1991)
 

A Preliminary Feminist Critique of Legal Ethics, 4 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 23 (1990)
 

CONFINEMENTS: FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

(1997)(with Helena Michie)
 

Adoption, Identity, and the Constitution: The Case for Opening Closed Records, 2 U. Pa. J. Con. L. 150 (1999)(with Professor Jana Singer)
 

Subsidy Without Intervention: Lessons from Foster Care, 8 Am. U. Gender Soc. Poly. & L

L. 55 (2000)(with Catherine J. Ross)

Dependency and Delegation: The Ethics of Marital Representation, 22 Seattle U. L. Rev. 97

(1998)(with Robert Tuttle)
 

Helena Michie and Naomi Cahn, Unnatural Births: Cesarean Sections in the Discourse of the "Natural Childbirth" Movement, in GENDER AND HEALTH: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 44 (Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell eds., 1996)
 

Naomi Cahn & Joan Meier, Domestic Violence and Feminist Jurisprudence: Towards a New Agenda, 4 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 339 (1995)
 

Marie Ashe & Naomi Cahn, Child Abuse: A Problem for Feminist Theory, 2 Tex. J. Women & L. 75 (1993) (reprinted in THE PUBLIC NATURE OF PRIVATE VIOLENCE (Martha Fineman and Roxanne Mykitiuk eds., 1994))
 

Naomi Cahn & Norman Schneider, The Next Best Thing: Transfer Cases in the Clinical Setting, 36 Cath. U.L. Rev. 367 (1987)
 

Innovative Approaches to the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Crimes: An Overview, in DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: THE CHANGING CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSE (Eve S. Buzawa & Carl G. Buzawa eds., 1992)
 

Naomi Cahn & Lisa Lerman, Prosecuting Woman Abuse, in WOMAN BATTERING: POLICY RESPONSES (Michael Steinman ed. 1991)
 

Karen Baker, Naomi Cahn, & Sandra Sands, Report on District of Columbia Police Response to Domestic Violence (November 1989)
 

SELECTED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
 

Women's Work, Household Work, Law, Culture, & Humanities Conference (March 2000)
 

Where do I Come From?: Children's Interests and Genetic Information Disclosure,

Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law Symposium (February 2000)
 

Divorce Reform in Legal History, American Society for Legal History (October 1999)

Children's Interests and Foster Care, Ohio State Law Journal Symposium (March 1999)

The Privacy of Family Law, Comment, GW Law Review Symposium on Privacy

(February 1999)
 

The Tension between Children's and Parents' Identity Claims in Adoption, University

of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (February 1999)(with Jana Singer)
 

Women as Mothers, Mothers as Workers: The Powers of Caretaking, Villanova Law Review

Symposium (November 1998)
 

The Moral Complexities of Family Law, Law, Culture, and the Humanities (March 1998)
 

Parents and Juveniles, Wisconsin Law Review Symposium on Juvenile Justice (March 1996)
 

Feminism and Alternative Dispute Resolution, American University Journal of Gender and the Law Symposium (March 1996)1
 

Moderator, Confronting Violence in the Lives of Children and Families, Conference on Children's Rights, Temple University School of Law (September 1995)
 

Moderator, Integrating Issues of Domestic Violence Throughout the Curriculum, AALS Annual Meeting Program of the Sections on Women in Legal Education and Family and Juvenile Law (January 1995)
 

Family Law and Federal Questions, Georgetown University Law Center Faculty Brownbag Lunch Workshop (June 1993)
 

Inconsistent Stories, New York Law School Clinical Theory Workshop (April 1993)
 

The Ethics of Ethnographic Study in Law Schools, Law and Society Annual Meeting (May 1992)
 

Child Abuse, Woman Abuse, and Feminist Theory. Presented to: Columbia Law School Workshop on Domestic Violence (April 1992); Texas Journal of Women and the Law Symposium on New Perspectives on Women and Violence (March 1992)
 

Feminist Theory and Practice, Hastings Law Journal Symposium on Theory and Practice (January 1992)
 

Women and the Legal Profession, The Baltimore Women's Law Center and the D.C. Women's Bar Association (1991)
 

Child Custody and Domestic Violence, Philadelphia Bar Association (September 1991)
 

Defining Feminist Litigation, AALS Clinical Section Program (May 1991)
 

Male and Female Styles of Lawyering, AALS Annual Meeting Litigation Section (January 1991)
 

Sexual Abuse in Child Custody Disputes, American Bar Association Annual Meeting (August 1990)
 

Emerging Trends in Domestic Violence and the Law, Institute for Women's Policy Research (June 1990)
 

Feminism and Legal Ethics, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics Symposium on Gender and Legal Ethics (March 1990)
 

OTHER ACTIVITIES
 
 
 

Qualified as Expert Witness in Domestic Relations Malpractice Case, Summer 1999

Witness, Hearings on Adoption Reunion Registries Before the Subcomm. on Human

Resources of the House Comm. on Ways and Means, June 11, 1998 (invited to testify)

Member, George Washington University Hillel Board of Governors, 1998-present

Member, George Washington University Executive Committee on Women's Studies,

1997-present
 

Secretary/Treasurer, 1995-1996; Program Chair, 1996-1997; Chair, 1997-1998, Executive Committee Member, 1998-1999, for the Section on Family and Juvenile

Law of the Association of American Law Schools
 

Member, Multistate Essay Exam Test Drafting Committee, National Conference of Bar

Examiners, 1996-present
 

Law School Representative, University Committee on the Status of Women Faculty and Librarians, 1994-1996
 

Co-Organizer, Class and Identity Conference, March 1995
 

Co-Organizer (with Joan Meier), Domestic Violence and Feminist Jurisprudence: A Peer Exchange, April 1994
 

United States v. Foster, 113 S. Ct. 2849 (1993). Co-counsel, Brief Amicus Curiae for Petitioner
 

United Auto Workers v. Johnson Controls, 111 S. Ct. 1196 (1991). Co-counsel, Brief Amicus Curiae for Petitioners
 

Discrimination Based on Sex, Sexuality and Pregnancy, GULC CLE EEO Update Program, April 1991

Domestic Violence, D.C. Bar Family Law Training, November 1989, September 1990, September 1991, September 1992
 

Treasurer, D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1990-1992
 
 
 

WORKS IN PROGRESS
 

Divorce Reform in the Nineteenth Century
 

Working Mothers, Working Women
 

Between Blood and Water: Adoption and Contemporary Culture
 

Family Ties: An Adoption Reader (to be published by NYU Press)(co-edited with Joan Hollinger)