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Emily Bazelon
Bazelon sits at a microphone
Bazelon at Slate Political Gabfest in 2009
Born1971 (age 52–53)
EducationGermantown Friends School
Alma materYale University
OccupationJournalist
Notable credit(s)Slate
The New York Times Magazine
SpousePaul R. Sabin
Children2

Emily Bazelon (born March 1971) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist. She is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine , a senior research fellow at Yale Law School , and co-host of the Slate podcast the Political Gabfest . She is a former senior editor of Slate. Her work as a writer focuses on law, women, and family issues. In 2013, she published a book, Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy.

Early life and education

Bazelon was born in March 1971[1] and grew up in Philadelphia. Her father was an attorney and her mother was a psychiatrist.[2] She attended Germantown Friends School,[3] where she was on the tennis team.[4] She has three sisters including, Jill Bazelon, who founded an organization that provides financial literacy classes free of charge to low-income high school students and individuals in several cities.

Bazelon is the granddaughter of David L. Bazelon, formerly a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,[5] and second cousin twice removed of feminist Betty Friedan.[6]

Bazelon graduated from Yale College in 1993, where she was managing editor of The New Journal. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000 and was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.[7] She held the Dorot Fellowship in Israel from 1993–94.[8] After law school she worked as a law clerk for Judge Kermit Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Journalism career

Bazelon is a writer for The New York Times Magazine and former senior editor of Slate.[9][7] She has typically wryly and incisively[10] written on subjects such as voting rights,[11] the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Guantanamo detainee due process trial[12] and the alleged post-abortion syndrome.[13] Her work as a writer focuses on law, women, and family issues.[7][14]

Before joining Slate, Bazelon was a senior editor of Legal Affairs.[15] Her writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and other publications.[15]

Bazelon is also a senior research scholar in Law and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School.[7] Bazelon is affiliated with the Law and Media Program of Yale Law School.[16]

Between 2012–14, Bazelon made eight appearances on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central to discuss Supreme Court and anti-bullying issues.[17]

Writing on legalization of prostitution

In 2016, Bazelon won the Pulitzer Prize for a New York Times article on the legalization of prostitution, discussing the decriminalization of johns, pimps, and brothel owners as a means to protect sex workers.[18]

Writing on bullying

Bazelon wrote a series on bullying and cyberbullying for Slate, called "Bull-E".[19] She was nominated for the 2011 Michael Kelly Award[20] for her story "What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?"[21] The three-part article is about the suicide of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in January 2010, and the decision by the local prosecutor to bring criminal charges against six teenagers in connection with this death. The Michael Kelly Award, sponsored by the Atlantic Media Co., "honors a writer or editor whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly's own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth."<re f>"The Michael Kelly Award". The Atlantic Media Co. Retrieved May 20, 2017.</ref> Bazelon's series also sparked heated reaction[22] and a response from district attorney Elizabeth Scheibel,[23] who brought the charges against the six teenagers.

Bazelon authored a book about bullying and school climate published by Random House, titled Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy.[24][25] It received a front page New York Times Book Review review, which called the book "intelligent" and "rigorous", and described the author as "nonjudgmental in a generous rather than simply neutral way," and "a compassionate champion for justice in the domain of childhood’s essential unfairness."[26] In The Wall Street Journal, Meghan Cox Gurdon called Sticks and Stones a "humane and closely reported exploration of the way that hurtful power relationships play out in the contemporary public-school setting".[27]

Writing on abortion

Bazelon has reported critically on the pro-life movement and opponents of legal abortion, including "pro-life feminists"[28] and proponents of the concept of post-abortion syndrome,[13] while being supportive of abortion providers[29] and pro-choice federal judges.[30] She has described crisis pregnancy centers as being "all about bait-and-switch" and "falsely maligning" the abortion procedure.[31][32] Bazelon has discussed her support for legal abortion on the Double X blog.[33]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview

In July 2009, the New York Times Magazine published Bazelon's interview with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Discussing her view of Roe v. Wade in 1973, Ginsburg commented, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion."[34]

Bazelon did not ask any follow-up question to what some interpreted as Ginsburg endorsing a eugenics-based rationale for legalized abortion, i.e., as a remedy for "populations that we don't want to have too many of".[35] Bazelon was criticized by some conservative commentators for not doing so.[36][37] Bazelon responded to the criticism, stating that she is "imperfect" and did not ask a follow-up question because she believed that Ginsburg's use of "we" had referred to "some people at the time, not [Ginsburg] herself or a group that she feels a part of."[37]

The interview was cited in the United States House of Representatives' Committee Report in support of the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2012.[38]

Personal life

Bazelon lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband, Paul R. Sabin, a professor of history and American studies at Yale.[39][40] They are members of a reform synagogue.[2]

References

  1. ^ Bazelon, Emily (April 12, 2012). "What's Your Earliest Memory?". Slate. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  2. ^ a b Wilensky, Sheila (September 12, 2013). "Social, legal facets of bullying topic for author, Yale law grad, AZ Jewish Post". Arizona Jewish Post. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  3. ^ "Germantown Friends: News » The Ninny State: The Danger of Overprotecting Your Kids from Technology". germantownfriends.org. Archived from article/index.aspx?linkid=618&moduleid=261 the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2017. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Wartenberg, Ste ve (November 1, 1988). 9213873/?terms=Emily%2BBazelon "Stenstrom wins PIAA District 1 championship". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved August 22, 2017. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help); Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ In Brief, Summer 2003, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
  6. ^ Bazelon, Emily (February 5, 2006). "Shopping With Betty". Retrieved May 20, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |w ork= ignored (help)
  7. ^ a b c d le.edu/faculty/EBazelon.htm "Emily Bazelon". {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  8. ^ "Dorot Fellows". dorot.org. Retrieved June 15, 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-url= is malformed: path (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ New York Times Press Release (September 2, 2014). "Emily Bazelon joins New York Times". The New York Times. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |acces sdate= ignored (help)
  10. ^ Amar, Akhil Reed (2016). The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era. Basic Books. p. 413.
  11. ^ The Big Kozinski, Legal Affairs, Emily Bazelon, February 2005. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
  12. ^ Bazelon, Emily (March 27, 2006). "Invisible Men : Did Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl mislead the Supreme Court?". Slate. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  13. ^ a b Bazelon, Emily (January 21, 2007). "Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?". The New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2009.
  14. ^ Gold, Hades. 4728.html "N.Y. Times Magazine hires Emily Bazelon". POLITICO. Retrieved May 20, 2017. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  15. ^ a b List of Slate contributors m/id/117517/ Archived June 20, 2011, at WebCite
  16. ^ rchive.org/web/20090125044808/http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissions/archive/2008/11/18/spotlight-on-lamp.aspx "Spotlight on LAMP". Yale Law School. November 18, 2008. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2009. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ "Emily Bazelon: Reforming Health-Care Reform". The Colbert Report. Comedy Central. November 13, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2017. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  18. ^ Bazelon, Emily (May 5, 2016). html "Should Prostitution Be a Crime?". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2017. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  19. ^ Bazelon, Emily (January 26, 2010). "Bull-E: The new world of online cruelty". Slate. Archived from /2242320/year/2010/landing/1/ the original on January 19, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2011. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ Romenesko, Jim (April 7, 2011). "Michael Kelly Award finalists named". The Poynter Institute. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  21. ^ Bazelon, Emily (July 20, 2010). "What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?". Slate. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  22. ^ Lohr, David (July 23, 2010). "Revelations Stir New Debate Over Phoebe Prince Suicide". AOL News. archive.is. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  23. ^ Bazelon, Emily (July 22, 2010). ://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/blaming-victim "Blaming the Victim". Slate. Archived from the original on April 14, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2011. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  24. ^ Boog, Jason (November 10, 2010). "Emily Bazelon Lands Book Deal for Bullying Investigation". Media Bistro GalleyCat Blog. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  25. ^ Schwartz, John (March 10, 2013). "'Sticks and Stones,' by Emily Bazelon". The New York Times. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  26. ^ Solomon, Andrew (February 28, 2013). "'Sticks and Stones,' Emily Bazelon's Book on Bullying". The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  27. ^ Gurdon, Meghan Cox (2013-02-22). "The Cruelty of Youth". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  28. ^ "Suffragette City", E. Bazelon, Mother Jones, Jan.-Feb. 2007.
  29. ^ Bazelon, Emily (July 14, 2010). [https ://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/magazine/18abortion-t.html "The New Abortion Providers"]. New York Times Magazine. Retrieved May 20, 2017. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help)
  30. ^ Bazelon, Emily (April 13, 2010). "Defining Radical Down". Slate. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  31. ^ "Sign Them Up", E. Bazelon, Slate, Nov. 25, 2009.
  32. ^ "The Politics of Pregnancy Counseling", R. Douthat, New York Times Opinion blog, Dec. 3, 2009.
  33. ^ Bazelon, Emily (August 19, 2010). "The Feminist Establishment Rejects the Mama Grizzlies". Double X. Archived from the original on September 9, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  34. ^ Bazelon, Emily. "The Place of Women on the Court". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  35. ^ Gerson, Michael (July 17, 2009). "Justice Ginsburg in Context". Washington Post. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  36. ^ Goldberg, Jonah (July 15, 2009). "Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a Question of Eugenics". Jewish World Review. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  37. ^ a b Henneberger, Melinda (July 17, 2009). "Why Emily Bazelon Didn't Follow Up on Ginsburg's Abortion Comment". Politics Daily. archive.is. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  38. ^ s.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112SUHud&r_n=hr496.112&dbname=cp112&&sel=TOC_84201& House Report 112-496, H.R. 3541, fn. 123.
  39. ^ Paul Sabin, Yale Department of History. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  40. ^ Keller, Emma G. (2013-05-06). "Emily Bazelon's fair-minded feminism: 'I don't think there's anything missing'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
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