Solangel Maldonado

Solangel Maldonado is the Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law and incoming Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at Seton Hall University School of Law.  She has also taught at Cardozo Law School, the University of Illinois College of Law, and Columbia Law School, where she was a visiting scholar in the Center for the Study of Law and Culture in 2015-2016.  She teaches family law, wills, estates and trusts, torts, gender and the law, and race and the law.  Her scholarship focuses primarily on the law’s regulation of family and intimate relationships.  Her current work examines how the law shapes romantic preferences and how these preferences perpetuate racial hierarchy and economic and social inequality.

Professor Maldonado is an Associate Reporter of the Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law (in progress) and is the first Latina to serve as reporter for a Restatement.  She is an American Bar Foundation Fellow and the co-editor of Family Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 7^th ed. 2019) and Family Law in the World Community (Carolina Academic Press, 3rd ed. 2015).  She currently serves on the editorial board of the Family Law Quarterly and previously served on the board of the Family Court Review. 

Prior to joining legal academia in 2001, Professor Maldonado was a litigation associate with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP and with Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood in New York.  She also clerked for then District Court Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., now on the United States Court of Appeals.  She received her B.A. from Columbia College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.

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