Jane S. Schacter (born June 27, 1958) is an American legal scholar who serves as the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at

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with an expertise in constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and sexual orientation law."Jane S. Schacter"
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Education and early career

Schacter graduated from

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in 1976. She received her A.B. in History from the

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in 1980 and her J.D., ''cum laude'', from

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in 1984. From 1984 to 1985, Schacter clerked for the Honorable

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of the

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. Following her clerkship, Schacter worked as a litigation associate for the law firm of Hill & Barlow in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1985 to 1987 and again from 1989 to 1991. From 1987 to 1989, Schacter worked as an assistant attorney general for the Massachusetts Department of the Attorney General.

Career

Schacter joined the law faculty of the

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in 1991, where she was an assistant professor of law from 1991 to 1996 and an associate professor of law from 1996 to 1998. Schacter left for the

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in 1998 but returned to the University of Wisconsin Law School as a professor of law in 2000. At the University of Wisconsin, Schacter won numerous teaching awards, including the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1998 and the Alumni Association Teacher of the Year Award in both 1996 and 2005. Schacter joined the Stanford Law School faculty in 2006 and was named the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law in 2007.

Publications

Schacter co-edits a leading casebook on constitutional law, ''Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law'' (5th ed.) (with William N. Eskridge & Philip P. Frickey), and a leading casebook on sexual orientation and the law, ''Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law'' (5th ed.) (with William B. Rubenstein, Carlos A. Ball, and Douglas G. Nejaime)."Jane S. Schacter CV"
Retrieved June 27, 2015. Schacter has written widely on the topics of constitutional law and marriage equality. Her work has been published in the ''

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Stanford Law School. Retrieved June 28, 2015.

References

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