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Elizabeth Chen is an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing at Brooklyn Law School, where she teaches Gateway to Lawyering I and II. She joined the faculty in 2023 after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor during the 2022–2023 academic year.
Her research centers on anti-discrimination law, reproductive justice, and the legal frameworks surrounding relationships and care. With a strong commitment to civil rights, her work intersects with gender equity, employment law, and social policy.
One forthcoming article, Forced Intimacy, Care, and Discrimination (2026), explores how legal systems regulate intimacy and caregiving in contexts of employment and discrimination, reflecting her deep engagement with legal theory and social justice.
Professor Chen has previously taught as an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU School of Law. Her professional experience includes litigation on behalf of caregivers and pregnant workers at a nonprofit, and civil rights advocacy at a plaintiff-side employment firm. She began her legal career as an If/When/How Reproductive Justice Fellow at the Center for American Progress and served as a law clerk for the Honorable William Joseph Haynes Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Her educational background includes a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and an A.B. from the University of Chicago.
She is actively involved in legal writing pedagogy and civil rights scholarship, contributing to the mission of training socially responsible lawyers at Brooklyn Law School.
