Catherine J. Ross

Catherine J. Ross (born December 27, 1949) is the Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School where she is a constitutional law expert specializing in the First Amendment and civil liberties more generally as well as family law and issues affecting children and families including education and child custody.[1]

Education

Ross received her B.A. (magna cum laude), Ph.D. (in History), and J.D. from Yale University, where she was in the first class of women to graduate from Yale College in 1971. Ross was the first post-doctoral fellow at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale (now the Zigler Center), and was on the faculty of the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale Medical School before attending law school.  Born and raised in New York City, she graduated from Hunter College High School.

After graduating from law school Ross was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York, where, in addition to corporate litigation, she brought groundbreaking cases to improve conditions for the homeless in New York City. While at Paul, Weiss, she co-authored the American Bar Association's America's Children at Risk: An Agenda for Legal Action (1993) with the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. and for many years thereafter chaired or co-chaired the Association's committee charged with enlisting ABA entities and state bar associations to help implement the Report's recommendations.

Ross has been a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (2008-2009), a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a visiting faculty member at Boston College, the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's Law School.

In 2015 she published the prize-winning Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students' First Amendment Rights (Harvard University Press). As a leading expert on campus speech issues in both K-12 and colleges and universities, Ross is widely quoted in the media (both in the U.S and abroad).[2][3][4][5][6] She has published op-eds including in the Washington Post and USA Today.[7][8]

Ross serves on the Legal Advisory Board of Impeach Donald Trump Now, and the Legal Advisory Board of Free Speech for People. She has lectured widely and responded to press inquiries in the U.S. and abroad on the grounds and process for impeachment of a President.[9]

Earlier in her career, Ross focused on child welfare, poverty, the foster care system, and children's right to counsel, and regularly advised state and federal agencies on these issues, all topics in which she retains a professional interest.

Publications

Books
  • Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students' First Amendment Rights (Harvard University Press, 2015).[10]
  • Contemporary Family Law, 1st (2006) through 5th editions (2019) (with Douglas E. Abrams, Naomi R. Cahn, David D. Meyer, & Linda C. McClain; Thomson West).[11]
  • America's Children at Risk: An Agenda for Legal Action (report of the ABA Working Groups on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children and their Families; American Bar Association Press, 1993).[12]
  • Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action (Oxford University Press, 1980; co-editor with George Gerbner and Edward Zigler).[13]

References
  1. "Catherine J. Ross | GW Law | The George Washington University". www.law.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  2. Ross, Catherine (2018). "Campus Discourse and Democracy: Free Speech Principles Provide Sound Guidance Even After the Tumult of 2017". Journal of Constitutional Law. 20.
  3. Ross, Catherine (2017). "Assaultive Words and Constitutional Norms". Journal of Legal Education. SSRN 3271339.
  4. "College is Too Late to Teach Free Speech". Chronicle of Higher Education. February 7, 2017.
  5. Ross, Catherine (January 14, 2016). "Common Sense about the Chilling of Campus Speech". Cato Unbound.
  6. Ross, Catherine (January 22, 2016). "Why First Amendment Values Matter". Cato Unbound.
  7. Ross, Catherine (January 4, 2016). "Strangling the Free Mind". USA Today.
  8. Ross, Catherine (June 28, 2011). "The Supreme Court was right to strike down California's video game law". The Washington Post.
  9. "The First Amendment and Students: Speak Up or Shut Up?" Newseum, November 12, 2015
  10. "Lessons in Censorship — Catherine J. Ross | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  11. Abrams, Douglas; Cahn, Naomi; Ross, Catherine; Meyer, David; McClain, Linda (2015-09-29). Contemporary Family Law (4 ed.). West Academic Publishing. ISBN 9781628101652.
  12. "America's Children At Risk: A National Agenda for Legal Action". Family Law Quarterly. 27 (3): 433–446. 1993-01-01. JSTOR 25739949.
  13. Keller, Harold R. (1982-01-01). "Child abuse: An Agenda for action, by G. Gerbner, C.J. Ross, and E. Zigler (eds). Oxford University Press: New York, 1980, 345 pp". Aggressive Behavior. 8 (3): 298–301. doi:10.1002/1098-2337(1982)8:3<298::aid-ab2480080309>3.0.co;2-l. ISSN 1098-2337.
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