Marianne Engelman-Lado, Visiting Assistant Professor, specializes in civil rights, disability rights, access to health care, and educational equity. Her scholarship focuses on current trends in civil rights law and the historical development of public interest and community-based lawyering.

Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Engelman-Lado spent a decade as General Counsel of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, directing a non-profit civil rights law practice focusing on access to health care, environmental justice and disability rights. She previously taught health policy, education law and courses in public administration at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, and was an Associate Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. She joined Seton Hall Law in 2009.

Publications

Why We Can’t Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights: An Introduction to the Civil Rights Section, with Cristóbal Joshua Alex, et al., 30 North Carolina Central Law Journal 224 (2008).

Justice Kennedy Speaks on the Eve of the 2007 Term, with Cristobal Joshua Alex, Huffington Post (posted October 1, 2007).

Putting Race on the Table…or Unmasking Racism, Equal Justice Society e-newsletter (Fall, 2007);

Lawyering and Litigation During the Rollback: Legal Strategies to Pursue Social Justice, in Morgan, Denise, et al., Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights Under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice, (Carolina Academic Press, 2005), 363-77.

Unfinished Agenda: The Need for Civil Rights Litigation to Address Continuing Patterns of Race Discrimination and Inequalities in Access to Health Care, 6 Texas Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 1 (2001).

Evaluating Systems for Delivering Legal Services to the Poor: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations, with Gregg Van Ryzin, 67 Fordham Law Review 2553 (1999).

Litigation and Structural Change in Low-Income Communities: Toward a New Conceptualization of the Role of National Legal Campaigns (Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives, July, 1998).

Civil Rights Litigation to Address Continuing Patterns of Race Discrimination and Inequalities in Access to Health Care, (requested by Long-Range Planning Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, June, 1998).

A Question of Justice: African-American Legal Perspectives on the 1883 Civil Rights Cases, 70 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1123 (1995).

Breaking the Barriers of Access to Health Care: A Discussion of the Role of Civil Rights 4 Litigation and the Relationship Between Burdens of Proof and the Experience of Denial, 60 Brooklyn Law Review 239 (1994).

Planned Parenthood v. Casey: Eroding Access to Reproductive Services, 22 Health/PAC Bulletin 6 (1992).

Adequate Education for All: A Right, An Achievable Goal, 22 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 55 (Winter, 1987) (with Julius L. Chambers).

Protection of Civil Rights: A Constitutional Mandate for the Federal Government, 87 Michigan Law Review 1599 (1989) (with Julius L. Chambers).