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==