Nadine Strossen

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Nadine Strossen (2007)

Nadine Strossen (born August 18, 1950 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) is an American lawyer , civil rights activist and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She is both the first woman and the youngest person to ever preside over the ACLU. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations . According to magazines such as the National Law Journal , Working Woman Magazine and Vanity Fair, she is one of the most influential women and lawyers in the United States. She works at the New York Law School as a professor of constitutional law and international human rights.

biography

Strossen was born in Jersey City in 1950. She graduated from Harvard College in 1972 , during which time she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity . Three years later she received her doctorate magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and made a name for herself as the author of the Harvard Law Review .

Before 1989 the reputation of the New York Law School received and accepted, she worked for nine years as a lawyer in Minneapolis and New York City .

In February 1991 she became President of the ACLU, taking over the position vacated by Norman Dorsen's departure . As president, Strossen gives over 200 public lectures per year and gives numerous interviews and statements on civil and fundamental rights issues. As a result, it enjoys a broad media coverage and has received numerous awards and honors.

Strossen is an active member of NORML , a US organization that advocates the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana . She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the National Youth Rights Association and is a founding member of the Feminists for Free Expression .

Strossen is married to Eli Noam , an economics professor at Columbia University .

Literature (selection)

  • Nadine Strossen: Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights. 2nd edition, 2000, New York University Press. (German: In defense of pornography. For freedom of the word, sex and the rights of women . 377 pp. (Tb), Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1997), translated by Ruth Keen.
  • Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties . New York University Press 1995
  • A Feminist Critique of "the" Feminist Critique of Pornography , in: Virginia Law Review , Vol. 79, No. 5 (Aug., 1993), pp. 1099-1190
  • Internal security as a danger . (HU document 21)

Individual evidence

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SURNAME Strossen, Nadine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey