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Martha Ertman

Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor of Law

Phone: (410) 706-3923
Fax: (410) 706-0407
E-mail:
mertman @ law.umaryland.edu

Office: 230

BA, 1985, Wellesley College
JD, 1990, Northwestern University

Curriculum Vitae


Biography | Selected Publications | In the News

Before entering academia, Professor Ertman clerked for the Honorable Peter H. Beer, a U.S. district court judge in Louisiana, and practiced law in Denver and Seattle. She joined the faculty in July 2007 and teaches contracts and commercial law, as well as seminars on commodification theory and legal history. Her writing bridges contracts and intimate affiliation, suggesting ways that commercial models can improve family law as well as feminist and gay/lesbian legal theory. Recent publications include Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture (with Joan Williams, NYU Press 2005) and articles exploring feminist perspectives on contract law and contractual perspectives on polygamy. Prior to joining the law faculty, she was a professor at the University of Utah, an associate professor at the University of Denver, and also a visiting professor at the universities of Michigan, Connecticut, and Oregon. In 2007-2008, Prof. Ertman will teach Commercial Law and Contracts.

Articles

Exchange as a Cornerstone of Families, 34 Western New England Law Review 405 (2012). [Full Text]

The Productive Tension between Official and Unofficial Stories of Fault in Contract Law, in Fault in American Contract Law (Omri Ben-Shahar & Ariel Porot eds., 2011). [Full Text]

The Upside of Baby Markets, in Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families 23 (Michele Bratcher Goodwin ed., 2010). [Abstract]

Race Treason: The Untold Story of America's Ban on Polygamy, 19 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 287 (2010). [Full Text]

Book Review, For Both Love and Money, The Far Reach of Viviana Zelizer’s, The Purchase of Intimacy, Journal of Law & Social Inquiry 1017 (2009). [Full Text]

The Story of Reynolds: Federal "Hell Hounds" Punishing Mormon Treason, in Family Law Stories 51 (Carol Sanger ed., 2007) [Full Text]

Mapping the New Frontiers of Private Ordering, 49 Arizona Law Review 695 (2007). [Full Text]

Accepting the Court’s Invitation, 57 Journal of Legal Education 159 (2007).

What's Wrong with a Parenthood Market? - A New and Improved Theory of Commodification, 82 North Carolina Law Revew 1 (2003-2004). [Full Text SSRN]

The ALI Principles' Approach to Domestic Partnership, 8 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 107 (2001) [Full Text]

Changing the Meaning of Motherhood, 76 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1733 (2001). [Full Text]

Contract Sports, 48 Cleveland State Law Review 31 (2000).

Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal for Valuing Women's Work Through Premarital Security Agreements, 77 Texas Law Review 17 (1998). [Full Text]

Reconstructing Marriage: An InterSEXional Approach, 75 Denver University Law Review 1215 (1998). [Full Text]

Vive no Différence, 91 Northwestern Law Review 642 (1997). [Full Text]

Contractual Purgatory for Sexual Marginorities: Not Heaven, but Not Hell Either, 73 Denver University Law Review 1107 (1996). [Full Text]

Denying the Secret of Joy: A Critique of Posner's Theory of Sexuality, 45 Stanford Law Review 1485 (1993). [Full Text]

Recent News featuring Martha Ertman

March 28, 2013

University of Maryland School of Law Professor Martha Ertman and students Lena Beery, Vianca Diaz, and Lindsey Brown are quoted in the ABC2News story "SUPCO arguements on same sex marriage watched by law students."



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