Abbe R. Gluck
Associate Professor of Law and Milton Handler Fellow
| Office: |
Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 929
435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
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| Tel: |
(212) 854-0679 |
| Fax: |
(212) 854-7946 |
| Email: |
agluck@law.columbia.edu |
Assistant Info
Education:
- B.A., Yale University (1996), summa cum laude, English and International Studies, Phi Beta Kappa. Other graduation honors: Highest G.P.A. in the Humanities for the Class of 1996; Highest G.P.A. in the Residential College; Best English Senior Thesis.
- J.D., Yale Law School (2000). Yale Law Journal, Notes Editor; Coker Fellow in Civil Procedure. Awarded Olin Fellowship for article on the law and economics of cemeteries.
Areas of Teaching and Research:
- Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
- Civil Procedure
- Federal Courts, Federalism
- Health Law, End-of-Life Law
- State Legal Actors in the Federal System, State and Local Government, State Attorneys General
Detailed Biography:
Professor Gluck is an expert in legislation and the role of state legal actors in the federal system. She joined the faculty from senior positions in the New York City and New Jersey State Governments. Most recently, she served in the Administration of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine as the Special Counsel and Senior Advisor to the New Jersey Attorney General.
She has been a lecturer before the National Association of Attorneys General and, at Columbia, is a faculty advisor to the law school's National State Attorneys General Program.
Prior to her work in New Jersey, Professor Gluck served in the Administration of NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, where she was Chief of Staff and Counsel to the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, Senior Counsel to the Corporation Counsel in the Office of Legal Counsel, and Deputy Special Counsel to the NYC Charter Revision Commission. Earlier in her career, Professor Gluck was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn Law School.
She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and then-Chief Judge Ralph K. Winter, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Before law school, she served as the Election Manager for Ben Cardin for Congress (D-Md); District Coordinator for the Clinton/Gore 1996 Campaign; and as a Special Assistant and Speechwriter to U.S. Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D-Md).
Professor Gluck was an Academic Fellow at the Law School from 2008-2009, and joined the faculty in 2010.
Selected Professional Affiliations:
- Chair, NYC Affairs Committee of the NYC Bar Association; NYC Bar Association
- Executive Board Member, American Constitution Society (NY Lawyer Chapter)
- Secretary, The Fund for Modern Courts
Selected Publications:
- A Federalism Agenda for the Age of Statutes: Intrastatutory Federalism in Health Reform and Beyond, 121 Yale L.J. -- (forthcoming November 2011)
- Intersystemic Statutory Interpretation: Methodology as "Law" and the Erie Doctrine, 120 Yale L.J. 1898 (2011)
- Statutory Interpretation Methodology as Law: Oregon's Pathbreaking Framework and its Lesson for the Nation, Willamette Law Review (forthcoming 2011) (invited keynote address)
- The States as Laboratories of Statutory Interpretation: Methodological Consensus and the New Modified Textualim, 119 Yale L.J. 1750 (2010)
- Preserving Per Se, 108 Yale L.J. 913 (1999)
