Education
B.S., University of New Hampshire
J.D., Cornell Law School
Background
Erin Buzuvis joined the faculty in 2006 and has served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs since 2020.
Dean Buzuvis researches and writes about gender and discrimination in education and athletics, including such topics as Title IX's application to campus disciplinary proceedings for sexual assault, Title IX and college athletics reform, LGBTQ inclusion in high school and college athletics, and retaliation and related discrimination against female college coaches. She has been quoted in stories about Title IX in such media outlets as the New York Times, NPR, Sports Illustrated, Inside Higher Ed, and in many other national and local publications and broadcasts.
Dean Buzuvis teaches courses at the law school on administrative law, employment discrimination, Title IX, torts, property, and has co-directed our comparative gender law course in Israel. In addition, she has taught a course on LGBTQ policy issues at the Smith College School for Social Work, and in 2017 she co-taught a course on gender, human rights and sport at Utrecht University in the Netherlands on a grant from the Fulbright Specialist Program.
Prior to joining the faculty, Dean Buzuvis was an associate attorney at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston and also clerked for Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit. She also served as a visiting associate professor at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Courses Taught
Administrative Law
Employment Discrimination
Property
Title IX
Sports Law & Culture
Torts
Scholarly Works
Book Chapters
Erin E. Buzuvis, Title IX: Separate but Equal for Girls and Women in Athletics, in The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States (Deborah L. Brake, Martha Chamallas & Verna L. Williams, eds. 2021).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Sex Discrimination and the Transformation of U.S. Education, in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law (2018).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Title IX and U.S. College Sports: Contemporary Challenges to Compliance, in The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law (2017).
Erin Buzuvis & Kristine Newhall, Inequality, Discrimination and Sexual Violence in US Collegiate Sports, in Global Corruption Report: Sport 300 (Gareth Sweeney and Kelly McCarthy, eds., 2016).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Barriers to Leadership for Women in College Athletics, in Introduction to Intercollegiate Athletics 272 (Eddie Comeaux ed., 2015).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Transsexual and Intersex Athletes, in Sexual Minorities in Sports: Prejudice at Play 55 (Melanie L. Sartore-Baldwin ed., 2013).
Erin Buzuvis, Including Transgender Athletes in Sex-Segregated Sport, in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Sport: Essays from Activists, Coaches, and Scholars 23 (George B. Cunningham ed., 2012).
Journal Articles
Erin Buzuvis, Athletic Scholarships and Title IX: Compliance Trends and Context, 16 J. Intercollegiate Sport 74 (2023).
Erin Buzuvis, What's Wrong with the NCAA's New Transgender Athlete Policy?, 29 Wm. & Mary J. Race, Gender & Soc. Just. 155 (2022).
Erin Buzuvis, Law, Policy, and the Participation of Transgender Athletes in the United States, 24 Sport Mgmt. Rev. 439 (2021).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Title IX and Official Policy Liability: Maximizing the Law’s Potential to Hold Education Institutions Accountable for Their Responses to Sexual Misconduct, 73 Okla. L. Rev. 35 (2020).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Attorney General v. MIAA at Forty Years: A Critical Examination of Gender Segregation in High School Athletics in Massachusetts, 25 Tex. J.C.L. & C.R. 1 (2019).
George Cunningham, Erin Buzuvis, & Chris Mosier, Inclusive Spaces and Locker Rooms for Transgender Athletes, 7 Kinesiology Rev. 365 (2018).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Title IX and Procedural Fairness: Why Disciplined-Student Litigation Does Not Undermine the Role of Title IX in Campus Sexual Assault, 78 Mont. L. Rev. 71 (2017).
Erin Buzuvis, Coaches in Court: Legal Challenges to Sex Discrimination in College Athletics, 6 Tenn. J. Race Gender & Soc. Just. 41 (2017).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Challenging Gender in Single-Sex Spaces: Lessons from a Feminist Softball League, 80 L. & Contemp. Probs. 155 (2017).
Erin Buzuvis, Hormone Check: Critique of Olympic Rules on Sex and Gender, 31 Wis. J. L., Gender, & Soc'y 29 (2016).
Erin Buzuvis, "As Who They Really Are": Expanding Opportunities for Transgender Athletes to Participate in Youth and Scholastic Sports, 34 L. & Ineq. 341 (2016).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Athletic Compensation for Women Too? Title IX Implications of Northwestern and O’Bannon, 41 J.C. & U.L. 297 (2015).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Title IX Feminism, Social Justice, and NCAA Reform, 5 Freedom Ctr. J. 101 (2014).
Erin E. Buzuvis, A Reasonable Belief: In Support of LGBT Plaintiffs? Title VII Retaliation Claims, 91 Denv. U. L. Rev. 929 (2014).
Erin E. Buzuvis, "On the Basis of Sex: Using Title IX to Protect Transgender Students from Discrimination in Education, 28 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 219 (2013).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Symposium: Radical Nemesis: Re-Envisioning Ivan Illichs Theories on Social Institutions: Illich, Education, and the Wire, 34 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 363 (2012).
Erin Buzuvis, Game Changer, MS., Spring/Summer 2012, at 33.
Erin E. Buzuvis & Kristine E. Newhall, Equality Beyond the Three-Part Test: Exploring and Explaining the Invisibility of Title IX's Equal Treatment Requirement, 22 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 427 (2012).
Erin E. Buzuvis, The Feminist Case for the NCAA's Recognition of Competitive Cheer as an Emerging Sport for Women, 52 B.C. L. Rev. 439 (2011).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Transgender Student-Athletes and Sex-Segregated Sport: Developing Policies of Inclusion for Intercollegiate and Interscholastic Athletics, 21 Seton Hall J. Sports & Ent. L. 1 (2011).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Caster Semenya and the Myth of a Level Playing Field, 6 Mod. Am. 36 (2011).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Sidelined: Title IX Retaliation Cases and Women's Leadership in College Athletics, 17 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 1 (2010).
Erin E. Buzuvis & Kristine E. Newhall, (e)Racing Jennifer Harris: Sexuality and Race, Law and Discourse in Harris v. Portland, 32 J. Sports & Soc. Issues 345 (2008).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Reading the Pink Locker Room on Football Culture and Title IX, 14 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 1 (2007).
Erin E. Buzuvis, Survey Says ... A Critical Analysis of the New Title IX Policy and a Proposal for Reform, 91 Iowa L. Rev. 821 (2006).
Erin E. Buzuvis, 'A' for Effort: Evaluating Recent State Education Reform in Response to Judicial Demands for Equity and Adequacy, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 644 (2001).
Shorter Writings
Erin Buzuvis, The Chevron Doctrine: What Is It and Why Should We All Care About It?, Af-Am Point of View, Apr. 1, 2024, at 23.
Erin Buzuvis, New ABA Standards Require All Law Schools to Teach About Race, Af-Am Point of View, Jan. 1, 2023, at 23.
Erin Buzuvis, Title IX for the Win: Civil Rights and the Women’s World Cup, Af-Am Point of View, Sept. 1, 2020, at 23.
Erin Buzuvis, Transgender Civil Rights on the Ballot in November, Af-Am Point of View, July 1, 2018, at 23.
George B. Cunningham & Erin E. Buzuvis, Better Locker Rooms: It's Not Just a Transgender Thing, Conversation (Mar. 26, 2017).
Erin Buzuvis, Where All Kids Can Compete, Contexts, Summer 2017, at 17.
Erin Buzuvis, Religious Exemption Requests Push Back Against LGBT Rights, Modern Ideas, Title Ix Today, Mar. 2016, at 1.
Erin E. Buzuvis & Sudha N. Setty, Letter to The New York Times, May 25, 2008, at MM6.
