Ruthann Robson
{{Short description|American professor of law and author}}
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Ruthann Robson is an American professor of law at CUNY School of Law in New York City and a writer. She has written on legal scholarship and theory and published fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Her novel Eye of a Hurricane was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction.{{Cite web|date=1991-07-13|title=3rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/1991/07/lambda-literary-awards-1990/|access-date=2022-02-26|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}}
Career
She has taught at the City University of New York School of Law since 1990 in the areas of constitutional law, family law, feminist legal theory, and sexuality and the law. The New York City Law Review published a symposium on her work in volume 8, issue 2.
In 2007, the CUNY board of Trustees designated Professor Ruthann Robson a University Distinguished Professor. A profile by Jill Jarvis is featured on the CUNY website.[https://www.law.cuny.edu/faculty/directory/robson Ruthann Robson], Cuny School of Law A profile by Emily Sachar is featured in CUNY Law, the law school magazine.[https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/28655598/a-profile-by-emily-sachar-ruthann-robson A profile by Emily Sachar - Ruthann Robson], Yumpu
Publications
- Sappho Goes to Law School
- Lesbian (Out)Law: Survival Under the Rule of Law
- a/k/a
- The Struggle for Happiness (both from St. Martin's Press)
- Cecile
- Eye of a Hurricane
- re*view (ri*vyōō'){{Cite journal |last=Robson |first=Ruthann |title=re*view (ri*vyōō') |url=https://fscj.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fscj%3A4953#page/66/ |journal=Kalliope, A Journal of Women's Art and Literature |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=65–73}}
Awards and fellowships
- Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction for Eye of a Hurricane
- Fellow in Nonfiction Literature, New York Foundation for the Arts
- Bram Fischer Research Chair, Witwatersrand (WITS) Law School, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Collaborative Research Fellowship, University of Sydney
- Djerassi Artists Fellowship Residency
- CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) Law Fellowship
References
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1502847
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=889709
- https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/cajwol7&div=32&id=&page=
- https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/nyclr8&div=19&id=&page=
- https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/nyclr8&div=20&id=&page=
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External links
- [http://www.ruthannrobson.com/ Official Website]
- [http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/ Constitutional Law Prof Blog]
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Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American legal writers
Category:CUNY School of Law faculty
Category:American lesbian writers