Catherine J. Ross

Catherine J. Ross (born December 27, 1949) is the Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School where she is a constitutional law expert specializing in the First Amendment and civil liberties more generally as well as family law and issues affecting children and families including education and child custody.[1]

Education

In 2015 she published the prize-winning Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students' First Amendment Rights (Harvard University Press). As a leading expert on campus speech issues in both K-12 and colleges and universities, Ross is widely quoted in the media (both in the U.S and abroad).[2][3][4][5][6] She has published op-eds including in the Washington Post and USA Today.[7][8]

Ross serves on the Legal Advisory Board of Impeach Donald Trump Now, and the Legal Advisory Board of Free Speech for People. She has lectured widely and responded to press inquiries in the U.S. and abroad on the grounds and process for impeachment of a President.[9]

Ross received her B.A., P.h.D., and J.D. from Yale University.[10]

Publications

Books
  • Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students' First Amendment Rights (Harvard University Press, 2015).[11]
  • Contemporary Family Law, 1st (2006) through 5th editions (2019) (with Douglas E. Abrams, Naomi R. Cahn, David D. Meyer, & Linda C. McClain; Thomson West).[12]
  • America's Children at Risk: An Agenda for Legal Action (report of the ABA Working Groups on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children and their Families; American Bar Association Press, 1993).[13]
  • Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action (Oxford University Press, 1980; co-editor with George Gerbner and Edward Zigler).[14]

References
  1. "Catherine J. Ross | GW Law | The George Washington University". www.law.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  2. Ross, Catherine (2018). "Campus Discourse and Democracy: Free Speech Principles Provide Sound Guidance Even After the Tumult of 2017". Journal of Constitutional Law. 20.
  3. Ross, Catherine (2017). "Assaultive Words and Constitutional Norms". Journal of Legal Education. SSRN 3271339.
  4. "College is Too Late to Teach Free Speech". Chronicle of Higher Education. February 7, 2017.
  5. Ross, Catherine (January 14, 2016). "Common Sense about the Chilling of Campus Speech". Cato Unbound.
  6. Ross, Catherine (January 22, 2016). "Why First Amendment Values Matter". Cato Unbound.
  7. Ross, Catherine (January 4, 2016). "Strangling the Free Mind". USA Today.
  8. Ross, Catherine (June 28, 2011). "The Supreme Court was right to strike down California's video game law". The Washington Post.
  9. "The First Amendment and Students: Speak Up or Shut Up?" Newseum, November 12, 2015
  10. "Catherine J. Ross". www.law.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  11. "Lessons in Censorship — Catherine J. Ross | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  12. Abrams, Douglas; Cahn, Naomi; Ross, Catherine; Meyer, David; McClain, Linda (2015-09-29). Contemporary Family Law (4 ed.). West Academic Publishing. ISBN 9781628101652.
  13. "America's Children At Risk: A National Agenda for Legal Action". Family Law Quarterly. 27 (3): 433–446. 1993-01-01. JSTOR 25739949.
  14. Keller, Harold R. (1982-01-01). "Child abuse: An Agenda for action, by G. Gerbner, C.J. Ross, and E. Zigler (eds). Oxford University Press: New York, 1980, 345 pp". Aggressive Behavior. 8 (3): 298–301. doi:10.1002/1098-2337(1982)8:3<298::aid-ab2480080309>3.0.co;2-l. ISSN 1098-2337.
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