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Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair in Law at USC Gould School of Law, where she has been a faculty member since 1988. She co-directs the USC Center for Law, History and Culture and teaches First Amendment Law and Religion Clauses courses.
Her academic foundation includes:
- summa cum laude B.A. from Yale University
- magna cum laude J.D. from Harvard Law School (Harvard Law Review editor)
- Clerkship with Judge John J. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Stolzenberg's research bridges law and religion, law and liberalism, law and psychoanalysis, and law and literature. She critically examines religious accommodation in liberal democracies, secularism's evolution, and minority community dynamics, exemplified by her book American Shtetl (2022) analyzing Kiryas Joel's legal journey. Her work consistently challenges conventional boundaries between religious identity and constitutional frameworks.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals persistent engagement with political theology, religious autonomy, and the interplay of race and religion in law. Key thematic threads include the constitutional treatment of religious enclaves, critiques of legal secularism, and explorations of religious freedom beyond traditional paradigms.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship (2024)
As an educator, Stolzenberg has taught Property Law, Family Law, Feminist Legal Theory, and Law and Literature. She serves on the Casden Center’s Advisory Board, Radcliffe Accelerator Group on Religion and Racism, and editorial board of the Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, mentoring students through interdisciplinary scholarship.
She co-directs the USC Center for Law, History and Culture, fostering campus-wide collaboration on law's cultural dimensions through workshops, speaker series, and cross-disciplinary research initiatives connecting legal scholars with historians, anthropologists, and literary theorists.
