Pamela Laufer-Ukeles has joined the School of Law faculty in the fall of 2006. Her research interests include family law, feminist theory, issues of religion and state, Jewish law, bioethics, and international law. Before joining the faculty, Prof. Laufer-Ukeles was a litigator focusing on international arbitration, securities arbitration, and general litigation at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City and Meitar, Liquornik, Geva & Leshem, Brandwein in Israel. She clerked for the Honorable Judge Victor Marrero of the U. S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.

Prof. Laufer-Ukeles graduated from Columbia College magna cum laude with a degree in Philosophy and Economics and received her law degree from Harvard Law School. During law school, she was an Equal Justice Fellow at the Hale & Dorr Family Law Clinic and was also a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College in political philosophy. From 1999 to 2000, Prof. Laufer-Ukeles received a Fulbright Fellowship and Harvard Kennedy Fellowship to perform research at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Courses
LAW 6102 Torts I
LAW 6310 Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation
LAW 6831 Family Law

Publications

• Approaching Surrogate Motherhood: Reconsidering Difference, 26 Vermont Law Review 407 (2002)
• Gestation: Work for Hire or the Essence of Motherhood, 9 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 91 (2002)
• Selective Recognition of Gender Difference in the Law: Revaluing the Caretaker Role, 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender (forthcoming Fall 2007)