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Deborah Zalesne is Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, City University of New York, where her work integrates doctrinal analysis, feminist theory, and empirical research. She has authored or co-authored more than two dozen articles on SSRN, ranking in the network’s top 30,000 for downloads, and her scholarship is frequently cited in contracts, gender, and empirical-legal literature.
Research interests: Professor Zalesne’s writing clusters around four large themes: (1) contract law and its intersection with inequality, race, and vulnerability; (2) sexual-harassment and gender-discrimination doctrine in the U.S. and comparative contexts; (3) the legal regulation of emerging family forms, reproductive technology, and market-based intimacy; and (4) empirical studies of access-to-justice institutions such as small-claims courts. She often combines critical legal theory with concrete pedagogical proposals for first-year law teaching.
Recent scholarly trajectory: Since 2010 her publications increasingly link contracts and family law to structural inequality, with two major articles in 2017-18 exploring how assisted reproduction and cohabitation agreements reshape family rights. Earlier works provided comprehensive empirical data on small-claims enforcement deficits and mapped the evolution of same-sex harassment doctrine after Oncale.
Awards & recognition: While no named awards are listed, her papers consistently rank among SSRN’s most downloaded in Contracts, Consumer Law, and Gender & Law e-journals, and she is regularly cited by courts and scholars.
Teaching & mentoring: She co-directs skills-integration initiatives for CUNY’s first-year curriculum and has co-written several pieces on academic-support pedagogy; no individual student names appear in the supplied text.
Grants & labs: No grant or lab information is disclosed in the materials provided.
