Stephen Schulhofer

Stephen Joseph Schulhofer (born August 20, 1942) is the Robert B. McKay Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. His academic focus is criminal justice.

Background

Schulhofer completed his B.A. summa cum laude in 1964 at Princeton University, and his J.D. summa cum laude in 1967 at Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black for two years.

Schulhofer was then the Ferdinand Wakefield Hubbell Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he taught from 1972 to 1986, and the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Director for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago Law School where he taught from 1986 to 2001.

He is a Reporter for "Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses". At the 2016 annual meeting of the American Law Institute its members overwhelmingly rejected a proposal by Schulhofer and fellow reporter Erin Murphy to impose an affirmative consent requirement (to the effect that if the non-initiating sex partner did not actually say yes, then the initiator could be charged with assault) to prove consent was given at each stage of a sexual encounter, in defining sexual assault.

Personal life Schulhofer is married to Laurie Wohl, an artist who trained as a lawyer. They have two children, Samuel and Jonah.