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California Western's associate dean for academic affairs from
1997-2001 and vice dean from 2015-2017, Professor Cox is a national authority on sexual orientation
and the law, and women and the law. She has written numerous articles on
interstate recognition of marriage and civil unions of same-sex
couples. As a commissioner on the Madison Equal Opportunities Commission
in Wisconsin, Professor Cox helped draft one of the earliest domestic
partnership ordinances in the country. She has published articles on
obtaining recognition for alternative families in journals such as the National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law and the Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies.
Cox is past chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
Section on Women and the Law and the AALS Section on Gay and Lesbian
Issues, and former deputy director of the AALS. She chairs the Board of
Directors and the Executive Committee of the national Freedom to Marry
organization, and completed six years on ABA Accreditation Committee in
June 2011.