Emily Bazelon

Emily Bazelon
Emily Bazelon at Mount Holyoke College in 2013
Born	March 1971 (1971-03) (age 45) U.S.A.
Education	Yale University Yale Law School
Occupation	Print and web media writer, essayist
Notable credit(s)	Slate New York Times Magazine
Spouse(s)	Paul Sabin
Children	Eli Simon

Emily Bazelon (born March 1971) is an American journalist, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and a senior research fellow at Yale Law School. Her work as a writer focuses on law, women, and family issues.

Bazelon is a writer for The New York Times Magazine and former senior editor of Slate. She has written articles about controversial subjects, such as the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld trial and post-abortion syndrome. Her work as a writer focuses on law, women, and family issues.

Before joining Slate, Bazelon was a senior editor of Legal Affairs. Her writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and other publications. She has worked as a reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area and, in 1993 and 1994, as a freelance journalist in Israel.

Bazelon is also a senior research scholar in Law and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. Bazelon and former New York Times legal correspondent Linda Greenhouse are affiliated with the Law and Media Program of Yale Law School.

Bazelon has appeared on the The Colbert Report to discuss Supreme Court issues.