Honoree Profile: Nadine Taub

Nadine Taub is perhaps best known as the Director of the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey between 1973 and 2001 during which she led the clinic in litigating ground-breaking abortion, sterilization and other reproductive rights cases, and employment discrimination, including sexual harassment.

She started working at Rutgers Law School in Newark in 1973 after graduating from Swarthmore College with distinction in 1964 and Yale Law School in 1968, served as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow in 1968-69, and was the Project Director of the Community Legal Action Workshop of the American Civil Liberties Union between 1969 and 1972.

She also received a degree in Graduate Legal Studies from Stockholm, University in Sweden in 1973. Professor Taub co-authored several books, including The Law of Sex Discrimination ( 1988 and 1993) (with Jay Lindgren), Sex Discrimination and the Law, History, Theory and Practice (1996) ( with Barbara Babcock et al), and edited Reproductive Laws for the 1990s (with Sherrill Cohen) (1989).

Her Collection of Sally Frank Court documents (1979-90) at Princeton present the history of the case in which she was lead counsel, a case in which the plaintiff had been denied membership in Princeton University eating club.

Professor of Law Emeritus since 2001, Ms. Taub is retired with her husband in New York City.

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