Edward Stein is a Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law in New York City and the Director of the Gertrud Mainzer Program in Family Law, Policy, and Bioethics. He holds a B.A. from Williams College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from M.I.T. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA Law School and UC-Hastings School of Law and was the Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before arriving at Cardozo, he taught philosophy at Yale University, NYU, Williams College, and Mount Holyoke College. He also clerked for Judge Dolores Sloviter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Stein’s research interests include legal and philosophical topics related to families, sexual orientation, bioethics, cognition and science. He has written extensively on these and other legal, philosophical, and scientific topics and is the author of two books, The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation and Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, both published by Oxford University Press, and the editor of an anthology, The Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy, published by Routledge.