Heidi Li Feldman is an American professor of law at

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. Her areas of research are torts, ethics, political

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, and legal theory. She is an elected member of the

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Education

Feldman attended

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where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. In 1990, she earned a Juris Doctor from

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. While in law school, Feldman worked as an associate editor and article editor of the ''

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''. She was a member of the

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. Feldman completed a doctorate in philosophy from

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in 1993. Her 1993 dissertation was titled ''Legal judgement, thick concepts, and objectivity''. Feldman's doctoral advisor was

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Career

Feldman worked as an assistant professor at University of Michigan Law School from 1991 to 1998. She taught courses on torts, ethics, and law and objectivity. Her research topics are tort law, political philosophy, ethics, and legal theory. In 1997, she joined the faculty at Georgetown Law where she is a professor of law. In May 2019, Feldman was a guest on the program ''

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'' with host

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where she discussed the Mueller Report. She is in the news because of a previous tweet regarding students who are Republicans. Ilya Shapiro has quoted her 2020 tweet in the Wall Street Journal: In 2020, Prof. Heidi Feldman of the Law Center tweeted that “law professors and law school deans” should “not support applications from our students to clerk for” judges appointed by President Trump. “To work for such a judge,” Ms. Feldman continued, marks a lawyer as lacking in the character and judgment necessary for the practice of law.”

Awards and honors

Feldman is an elected member of the

Personal life

In 2018, Feldman created a

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on behalf of

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that later received $210,000 in donations. In an interview with

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, Feldman stated that she was motivated to raise funds after hearing about the death threats against Ford. Feldman started another GoFundMe to raise funds to endow a professorship or scholarship in Blasey Ford's name. As of November 2018, it had raised over $30,000.

Selected works

Journal articles

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References

External links

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