Biographical Sketch
Naomi Cahn is the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. She has written numerous law review articles on family law, feminist jurisprudence, and reproductive technology, and has co-authored several books. Her current projects include “Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Markets Need Legal Regulation” (NYU Press, 2009) as well as a book with Professor June Carbone, RED Families V. Blue Families (Oxford University Press, 2009). Professor Cahn is a senior fellow at the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and she is a member of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project, for which she and her co-investigators have received outside funding to conduct research on public attitudes towards gay and lesbian parenting. From 2002 to 2004, Professor Cahn was on leave in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Prior to joining the faculty at GW in 1993, Professor Cahn practiced with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC, and as a staff attorney with Philadelphia’s Community Legal Services. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, and her B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

At GW Law, she teaches courses on family law, trusts and estates, and child, family, and state.

Education
B.A., Princeton University; J.D., Columbia University; LL.M., Georgetown University

Current Semester Courses
Child, Family, State; Family Law