Professor Solangel Maldonado to Deliver 11th Annual Katz Lecture

Solangel Maldonado, the Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, will deliver the 11th annual Katheryn D. Katz ’70 Memorial Lecture on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. 

Professor Maldonado will present “The Architecture of Desire, How Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality.” Register here.

Professor Maldonado writes and teaches in the areas of family law, gender, race, and their intersections.  She is the author of The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality (NYU Press, 2024) and a co-editor of two casebooks—Family Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2019) and Family Law in the World Community (Carolina Academic Press, 3rd ed. 2015). 
 

She is an American Bar Foundation Fellow and Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law.  She serves on the editorial board of the American Bar Association’s Family Law Quarterly and Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Law and Education Empowerment Project (NJ LEEP), a pipeline and college access program for middle and high school students from underserved communities.  

Prior to joining Seton Hall, Maldonado clerked for Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey and was a litigation associate with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP and with Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood in New York.  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 Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. 
Maldonado has 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.

The Katheryn D. Katz ’70 Lecture Series was established in 2014 in honor of Professor Katz with a focus on the family law topics that Katz made central to her teaching, including domestic violence, gender and the law, children and the law, reproductive rights, and inequality.

Previous Katz lectures were delivered by Professors Melissa Breger (2015), Donna Young (2016), Mary A. Lynch (2017), Stephen Clark (2018), Jessica Knouse ’04 of the University of Toledo College of Law (2019), Rutgers Law School Co-Dean and Professor Kimberly Mutcherson (2020), Georgetown Law Professor Kristin Henning (2021), Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law Rachel Rebouche (2022), Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor Emerita of Law at Columbia Law School Jane M. Spinak (2023), and Martin Guggenheim, Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law Emeritus at New York University Law School (2024). To learn more about the lecture, click here.