J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

J.D., Northeastern School of Law

Associate Professor of Law, Family Law and Women's Legal Issues

Office: W-4-144-13

Phone number: 617-287-7422

shoshanna.ehrlich@umb.edu

 

Professor Ehrlich has been teaching undergraduate courses in Legal Studies at CPCS since 1991. Her law courses focus on family law and the legal rights of women. Courses offered in these areas are interdisciplinary in nature and cross-listed with the Women's Studies Program. She also teaches an entry level seminar on gender and sexual identities.

 

Much of Professor Ehrlich's research and many of her publications focus on the abortion rights of minors, and she is actively involved with this issue on both a local and national level. She also consults with many organizations, including Planned Parenthood and the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, on the legal rights of minors in reproductive health care. Professor Ehrlich is also active in the current struggle to secure marital rights for same-sex couples.

 

Recent Publications:

Family Law for Paralegals - Aspen Law & Business, (Third Edition, Forthcoming)   

 

Who Decides?: The Abortion Rights of Minors (Forthcoming, Greewood/Praeger)

 

Grounded in the Reality of Their Lives: Listening to Teens Who Make the Abortion Decision without Involving Their Parents, 18 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 61 (2003)

 

Shifting Boundaries: Abortion, Criminal Culpability and the Indeterminate Legal Status of Adolescents, 18 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 77 (2003)

 

Your Legal Rights: A Guide for Teen Girls in Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts Publications, (2001)

 

Evaluates the following competencies:

•  Critical Readings

•  Legal Advocacy

•  Legal Studies I-III

•  Understanding Youth

 

Links:

http://www.nctimes.net/news/073100/y.html

http://www.yale.edu/lawnfem/toc/101.html

http://cjonline.com/stories/073100/new_hearings.shtml