Maria L. Marcus


Maria L. Marcus was an American lawyer who served as a Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham University.

Early life and family

Marcus was born as Maria Eleanor Erica Lenhoff on 23 June 1933 in Vienna, Austria in a Jewish family. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College in 1954 and a law degree from Yale Law School in 1957. She was married to Norman Marcus.

Career

Between 1961 and 1967, Marcus was an associate counsel for the NAACP.
From 1967 to 1978, she was an Assistant Attorney General. In 1976, she became the chief of the office's litigation bureau where she worked until 1978.
In 1978, she joined Fordham University as a professor and became the second woman to attain tenured full professor status.
In 2011, she was retired as a professor.

Publications

Austria's Pre-War Brown v. Board of EducationForeword: Is There a Threat to Judicial Independence in the United States TodayPolicing Speech on the Airwaves: Granting Rights, Preventing WrongsLearning Together: Justice Marshall's Desegregation OpinionsWanted: A Federal Standard for Evaluating the Adequate State ForumFederal Habeas Corpus After State Court Default: A Definition of Cause and Prejudice