Elaine M. Chiu, Associate Professor of Law
Professor Chiu's latest article entitled, The Culture Differential in
Parental Autonomy, has just been published in UC Davis Law
Review (41 UC Davis L. Rev. 101 (2008)). She is currently
working on a new domestic violence piece entitled That
Guy's A Batterer: A New Approach to Domestic Violence in the
Information Age. She recently presented this work
at the Emerging Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference at
Cardozo School of Law and at the Inaugural Midwest Family Law
Scholars Conference at the University of Indiana School of Law in
Indianapolis.
This summer Professor Chiu is also busy organizing the
2008 Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference
(NEPOC). On September 12-14, 2008, legal scholars from across
the US will gather at Boston University School of Law to discuss
Education and the Ecoomy: The Real Lives of People of Color.
For more information on the conference, please go to the conference
website.
Prior to coming to St. John's, Professor Chiu was a Research
Fellow at Columbia University School of Law from 2000-2001 and a
Climenko-Thayer Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School from
1999-2000. From 1994 to 1998, she was an Assistant District
Attorney in Manhattan in the Trial Division where she specialized
in both domestic violence and welfare fraud cases. Professor Chiu
also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Yeshiva University's Cardozo
Law School as part of their legal writing and research faculty from
1998-1999.
Professor Chiu is a cum laude graduate of Cornell
University (A.B. 1991) and Columbia University School of Law (J.D.
1994) where she was a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law
Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Professor Chiu is teaching Introduction to Law and Family
Law this fall.
Updated: June 24, 2008