Margo Schlanger
Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
(on leave, 2008-09)
E-mail: mschlanger@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Rachel Mance - (314) 935-6403
- Curriculum Vitae
(For the most recent list of publications and activities, please see the current CV.) - Web Page: http://schlanger.wustl.edu
- Publications
- Resources
Courses Taught (2007/08)
Civil Rights Injunctions Seminar - Spring 2008
Constitutional Law of Incarceration - Fall 2007
Individual Rights & the Constitution - Spring 2008
Torts - Fall 2007
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Education
B.A., 1989, Yale College
J.D., 1993, Yale Law School
Profile
Professor Schlanger received her J.D. in 1993 from Yale, where she was Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal and received the Vinson Prize for excellence in clinical casework. She then took up a two-year appointment as Law Clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1993-1995). From 1995 through 1998, she was an attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, where her practice focused on police and prison civil rights issues. Before her 2004 appointment at Wash. U., she was Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard from 1998 to 2004. Professor Schlanger is a leading authority on prisons and inmate litigation; in addition to her teaching and research in this field, she is currently a member of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons and the reporter for the American Bar Association's ongoing work revising its standards governing the Legal Treatment of Prisoners. She also founded and runs the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse.
Professor Schlanger's recent scholarship is interdisciplinary in its perspective and often includes an empirical component. For illustrative articles see "Civil Rights Injunctions Over Time: A Case Study of Jail and Prison Court Orders," 81 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 550 (2006), and "Inmate Litigation," 116 Harv. L. Rev. 1555 (2003). (A full list of publications, with links, is available on the publications page.) She currently serves as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and the Social Sciences.
In 2007-08, Professor Schlanger taught Individual Rights & the Constitution, Torts, a seminar on Civil Rights Injunctions; and a class on the Constitutional Law of Incarceration. She was voted the David M. Becker Professor of the Year in 2008. She will be away from Washington University during the 2008-09 school year, serving as visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan (Fall 2008) and UCLA (Spring 2009).
She is married to Washington University School of Law Professor Samuel Bagenstos; they have two children, born in 2000.