Fellows

Julie Goldscheid

B.S., Cornell
M.S.W., Hunter College School of Social Work
J.D., New York University School of Law

Julie Goldscheid is Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, holds a B.S. from Cornell, an M.S.W. from Hunter College School of Social Work, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was recently honored by the Law Alumni Association. In addition to clerking for the New Jersey Supreme Court, working at a private firm and teaching at both Penn State-Dickinson Law School and Brooklyn Law School, she spent six years at Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund); her last position there was Acting Legal Director. She has also served as General Counsel of Safe Horizon, an organization committed to victim assistance, advocacy, and violence prevention, where she oversaw its domestic violence law project and immigration law project. She has written widely about violence against women and is active in a number of organizations, including various Sections of the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Stonewall Community Foundation. She is a former member of the board of directors of the Hetrick Martin Institute and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.

She will be working on two projects: The first looks at the benefits and limits of using the gender-specific lens of “violence against women” in anti-gender violence advocacy. I will draw on framing theory to explore whether the gender-specific “violence against women” approach has outlived its utility notwithstanding its historic impact, and whether a gender-neutral frame that nevertheless focuses on and challenges the social, political, historical, and geographic contexts of abusive violence, including gender, is better suited for current legal and policy concerns.   The second project examines whether law enforcement’s inadequate responses to gender violence can meaningfully be viewed through the framework of police misconduct. The project responds to a trend in which United States’ courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, increasingly have restricted recovery when gender violence survivors and their families have sought to hold law enforcement accountable for failed responses. Traditional police misconduct claims involve over-responsiveness. I will draw on caselaw, historical and theoretical perspectives to analyze whether law enforcement’s under-responsiveness to claims of gender-based violence should be viewed on the same misconduct continuum.