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Professor Fenton teaches courses in Family Law, Torts, Race and the Law, Constitutional Law, and several seminars.

Professor Fenton's research interests cover issues of structural inequality and forms of subordination, including those of race, gender and class. She explores these issues in the greater context of violence and the attainment of justice. She regularly writes and speaks in these areas and related topics.

Professor Fenton received an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School where she served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal. She practiced briefly in the New York firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and then clerked for the Honorable Edward R. Korman, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Research
Professor Fenton has published extensively in the areas of structural inequality and subordination, including those of disability, race, gender, and class.

Selected Publications:

Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN TORTS OPINIONS (vol. 3 eds. Martha Chamallas and Lucinda Finley), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2020).

On Becoming a Critical Race Scholar, in VERNON L. FARMER, CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN THE ACADEMY. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishers (2020).

Being Exceptional, 75 STUDIES in LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY (Special Issue: Law and the Imagining of Difference) (ed. Austin Sarat) 79 (2018).

Disarming State Action; Discharging State Responsibility, 52 HARV. C.R-C.L. 47 (2017)

Disability Does Not Discriminate: Toward a Theory of Multiple Identity Through Coalition in DISCRIT: DISABILITY STUDIES AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN EDUCATION (Teachers College Press, eds. David Connor, Beth Ferri & Subini Annamma, 2016).

Bastards! . . . . And The Welfare Plantation, 17 IOWA J. GENDER, RACE & JUST. 9 (2013).

Disabling Racial Repetition in RIGHTING EDUCATIONAL WRONGS: DISABILITY STUDIES IN LAW AND EDUCATION (Syracuse University Press, eds. Arlene S. Kanter and Beth A. Ferri, 2013).

Disabling Racial Repetition, 31 LAW & INEQUALITY 77 (2012).

An Essay on Slavery’s Hidden Legacy: Social Hysteria and Structural Condonation of Incest, 55 HOW. L. J. 319 (2012).

Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales: A Tale of State Enabled Violence, in WOMEN & THE LAW STORIES (Foundation Press, eds. Elizabeth Schneider and Stephanie Wildman, 2011).

No Witch is a Bad Witch: A Commentary on the Erasure of Matilda Joslyn Gage, 20 LAW &: S. CAL. L J. INTERDISCIPLINARY L. 21 (2010).

Sleight of Hand or the Old Bait & Switch: Article III & The Politics of Self Policing by the Court in Parents Involved , 63 UNIV. MIAMI L. REV. 561 (2009).

The Paradox of Hierarchy OR Why We Always Choose the Tools of the Master's House, 31 NYU J. L. SOC. CHANGE 627 (2007).

Colorblind Must Not Mean Blind to the Realities Facing Black Children, 26 BCTWLJ 81 (2006).

To Do is To Be: A Comment on the “To Do Feminist Legal Theory” Student Symposium, 9 Cardozo Women’s L. J. 431(2003).

Silence Compounded – the Conjunction of Race and Gender Violence, 11 AM. U. J. GENDER, SOC. POL'Y & L. 271 (2002).

Introduction: Foster Care: The Border of Family Identity -Maintaining, (Re)creating, Destroying for the Symposium: “Transgressing Borders: Women’s Bodies, Identities and Families,” In Memory of Mary Joe Frug 36 N.E. L. REV. 59 (2001).

Faith in Justice: Fiduciaries, Malpractice & Sexual Abuse By Clergy 8 MI. J. OF GENDER & L. 45 (2001).

Mirrored Silence: Reflections on Judicial Complicity in Private Violence 78 ORE. L. REV. 955 (1999).

Domestic Violence In Black and White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes In Gender Violence, 8 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 1 (1998)

In A World Not Their Own: The Adoption of Black Children, 10 HARV. BLACKLETTER J. 39 (1993).

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