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.
Professor Chiu's scholarship has focused on some of the most
difficult issues in contemporary criminal justice. Her past
articles have discussed the schizophrenic nature of our domestic
violence policies, the role of motive in prosecuting low level drug
offenders, the need for honest consideration of culture and the
danger of criminalizing female genital cuttings.
Professor Chiu is the chairperson of the Planning Committee of
the Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference.
This is an annual event that gathers legal academics of color from
across the country to discuss issues and topics of importance to
communities of color.
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 teaches Introduction to Law, Criminal
Law and Family Law.
Updated: March 17, 2009