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Elizabeth D. Katz

@elizabethdkatz.bsky.social
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Law Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law Legal History, Family Law, Criminal Law Faculty bio: www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/elizabeth-k… Publications: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAu…

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Elizabeth D. Katz @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I'm excited to be chairing the American Society for Legal History Projects and Proposals Committee this cycle. We look forward to receiving funding applications for conferences, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, and more! We are accepting submissions until Sept. 1. aslh.net/award/projec...
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Projects and Proposals Funding | American Society for Legal History
The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical schol...
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Elizabeth D. Katz @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I'm excited to be chairing the American Society for Legal History Projects and Proposals Committee this cycle. We look forward to receiving funding applications for conferences, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, and more! We are accepting submissions until Sept. 1. aslh.net/award/projec...
aslh.net
Projects and Proposals Funding | American Society for Legal History
The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical schol...
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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 24/02/2026
A focus on the US Constitution and federal judges has obscured a longer and more complex history of women serving on state benches—and how state constitutions mattered in their rise. @uflaw.bsky.social's @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social shares the untold story of 150 years of women in state judiciaries.
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The Untold Story of 150 Years of Women in State Judiciaries
A focus on the U.S. Constitution and federal judges has obscured a longer and more complex history of women serving on state benches — and how state constitutions mattered in their rise.
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Elizabeth Foxwell @elizfoxwell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Article by U-FL law prof @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social on often forgotten early female US judges—some obtaining their positions yrs before the 19th amendment. Image: suffragist & lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch, who was elected in 1907 as a justice of the peace in IL. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Illustration of suffragist and lawyer Catharine Waugh McCulloch
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Elizabeth D. Katz @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
On this date in 1912, Chief Justice Marshall's great-niece became the 1st woman selected in the primaries for the Cal. Superior Court. She lost, but 100s of other women served as judges in the surrounding decades. They've mostly been forgotten... until now. ssrn.com/abstract=544...
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"May It Please Her Honor": The United States' First Women Judges, 1870-1930
Between 1870 and 1930, hundreds of women served as judges in the United States. While a small number compared to the men who served, these pathbreaking official
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Elizabeth D. Katz @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I'm honored to be named one of the new trustees for the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society. @flcourthistory.bsky.social‬ www.floridabar.org/the-florida-...
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Florida Supreme Court Historical Society announces new trustees
The Florida Supreme Court Historical Society has seated its board leadership for the 2025-26 year, which was approved during the organization’s meeting at the Annual Florida Bar Convention on June 26....
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Elizabeth D. Katz @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Stanford Center for Law and History is hiring a new fellow! An amazing opportunity for legal historians planning to go on the academic market in the next few years. law.stanford.edu/stanford-cen...
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Stanford Center for Law and History Fellowship | Stanford Law School
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Zachary D. Kaufman @zacharykaufman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Re US v. #Skrmetti: Some commentators (e.g., @mjsdc.bsky.social) are arguing that conservative #SCOTUS justices are cherry picking citations to foreign laws and policies. They did the exact same thing in Obergefell v. Hodges (same-sex marriage case), as I argued in YJIL: ssrn.com/abstract=263...
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Daniel LaChance @dwlachance.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Advanced doctoral students, early career faculty, and recent J.D.s: Doing work in legal history, broadly defined? Apply for the 2025 Hurst Institute in Legal History, a two week workshop and seminar in June. Deadline 1/15/25. More info: www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...
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Elizabeth D. Katz @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
What a delight to be in Malibu to share a paper on law and religion at @pepperdine.bsky.social Caruso School of Law.
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Elizabeth D. Katz @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Interesting conference this morning at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
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