[1] She enrolled in the New York University School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow, and received her Juris Doctor in 1973.
[3][6][1] CCR chose cases that would raise public awareness of an issue, generate media attention, and energize activists being harassed by local law enforcement.
[citation needed] Schneider stated that CCR "asserted rights not simply to advance legal argument or to win a case but to express the politics, vision, and demands of a social movement.
[1] They did pioneering work in the legal defense of battered women who kill in self-defense, and in establishing that domestic violence is not a private problem but a public harm.
Among its findings, the Supreme Court ruled that the jury should have been permitted to hear the full circumstances surrounding the shooting, not only those ‘‘at or immediately before the killing’’ as they had been instructed, in order to judge the reasonableness of Wanrow's belief in the need for self-defense.
The Court noted that the trial judge's reasonable man instructions, using male pronouns, ‘‘[left] the jury with the impression the objective standard to be applied is that applicable to an altercation between two men.’’ The jury should have been instructed to consider the "degree of force which ... a reasonable person in the same situation ... seeing what (s)he sees and knowing what (s)he knows, ... would believe is necessary.
In 1989, when the governors of two states commuted the sentences of three women who had killed their male partners, Schneider commented in the New York Times News Service that their actions showed a new understanding of the law.
[2] A Columbia Journal of Gender & Law review described it as an "outstanding critical overview of the history of the battered women’s movement and the complex legal and social issues facing battered women... [adopting] a feminist theoretical approach, which links theory with practice, to analyze the legal and social responses to domestic violence over the last two decades," emphasizing that "domestic violence is not an isolated problem, but, rather, is embedded in gender inequality that permeates our society.
Subject areas covered include history, constitutional law, reproductive freedom, the workplace, the family, and women in the legal profession, domestic violence, and rape.
[2][14] Schneider is a co-author of the casebook, Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice (Foundation Press, 2013), with Cheryl Hanna, Emily J. Sack and Judith G.
Benjamin Liptzin, a retired geriatric psychiatrist and professor emeritus of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, replied.