Eloise Pasachoff is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.  Her scholarship focuses on administrative and constitutional law issues surrounding federal funding, with a particular interest in legal regimes governing education and social welfare programs. 

A recent article, The President’s Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control, 125 Yale L. J. 2182 (2016), was selected for reprinting in the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review as one of the year’s best law review articles in the field of environmental law and policy.  An earlier article, Special Education, Poverty, and the Limits of Private Enforcement, 86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1413 (2011), won the Education Law Association’s 2012 Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship. 

Pasachoff received an A.B. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, an M.A. from Yale, an M.P.A. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Before joining the Georgetown Law faculty, she served as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  She also worked at WilmerHale LLP in New York City and taught first-year legal research and writing as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.  Before going to law school, she taught middle- and high-school English in New York City.