Contributors

Kathryn Abrams is Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law at UC-Berkeley Law School. She writes in the areas of feminist theory, law and emotions, and social movements. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and California Law Review.

Aziza Ahmed is Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. She writes in the area of public health law, science and technology studies, and feminist legal theory, and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Boston University Law Review, Journal of Law and Biosciences, and the Wisconsin Law Review.

Susan Frelich Appleton is the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. She writes in the areas of family law, sex, gender, reproduction, and feminist legal theory, and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, the Dukeminier Awards Journal, and Columbia Law Review.

Katharine K. Baker is a University Distinguished Professor of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of women’s intimate lives and the law, particularly in the areas of sexual violence and family law. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and University of Chicago Law Review.

Ann Bartow is a Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She writes in the areas of intellectual property law, privacy law, and feminist legal theory. She is a coeditor of The Jurisprudential Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (NYU Press, 2023) (with Ryan Vacca), including a coauthored chapter on Justice Ginsburg’s copyright jurisprudence (with Ryan Vacca).

Theresa M. Beiner is the Dean and Nadine Baum Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. She writes in the areas of women in the legal profession, employment discrimination, federal judicial appointments, and constitutional law, and is the author of Gender Myths v. Working Realities: Using Social Science to Reformulate Sexual Harassment Law (NYU Press, 2005) and a coauthor of Civil Procedure: A Context and Practice Textbook.

Stephanie Bornstein is Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She writes in the areas of antidiscrimination law, employment and labor law, and civil procedure. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous journals including the California Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review, and she is coauthor of the casebook Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination (Aspen, 10th ed., 2021) (with Charles A. Sullivan and Michael J. Zimmer).

Deborah L. Brake is Professor of Law, John E. Murray Faculty Scholar, and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the University of Pittsburgh. Her scholarship on law and gender has appeared in journals such as Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Harvard Journal of Gender Law, and William & Mary Law Review. She is the author of Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women’s Sports Revolution (NYU Press, 2010) and coauthor of the casebook, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (9th ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2023) (with Katharine T. Bartlett, Joanna L. Grossman and Frank Rudy Cooper).

Sarah M. Buel is a retired Clinical Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her almost forty years’ scholarship, pedagogy, and practice focused on the juxtaposition of gender violence, poverty, criminal, and human rights law. She has authored more than thirty articles, book chapters, and amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Erin E. Buzuvis is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Western New England University School of Law. She writes in the areas of gender, education, and sport, and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as the Journal of College and University Law, Marquette Sports Law Review, and the Oklahoma Law Review.

Nancy Chi Cantalupo is Associate Professor of Law at Wayne State University. Her scholarship seeks to combat gender-based and other discriminatory violence through the use of civil rights laws and has appeared in journals such as Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Wake Forest Law Review, and Yale Law Journal Forum.

Cinnamon P. Carlarne is the Associate Dean for Faculty & Intellectual Life and the Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She writes in the areas of domestic and international environmental law and is the author of Climate Change Law & Policy: EU & US Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Climate Change Law (Foundation Press, 2018) (with Daniel A. Farber).

Martha Chamallas is the Distinguished University Professor and Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law Emerita at the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University. She writes on feminist legal theory, employment discrimination law, and gender and race bias in tort law. She is the author of Introduction to Feminist Legal Theory (3d ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2013), The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender and Tort Law (NYU Press, 2010) (with Jennifer B. Wriggins), and Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions (Cambridge University Press, 2020) (with Lucinda M. Finley).

Brenda Cossman is the Goodman-Schipper Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. She writes in the area of gender, sexuality, and law and is the author of The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era (NYU Press, 2021).

Bridget J. Crawford is a University Distinguished Professor of Law at Pace University. She writes in the areas of taxation, wills and trusts, and feminist legal theory and is the coeditor (with Anthony C. Infanti) of Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, and works in the fields of comparative constitutional law and design, socioeconomic rights and economic policy, and law and gender. She is the author of Abusive Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2021) (with David Landau), From Free to Fair Markets: Liberalism After COVID-19 (Oxford University Press, 2022) (with Richard Holden), and Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Martha M. Ertman is Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor at the University of Maryland Carey Law School. She writes in the areas of commodification —focusing on the upside of contracts for have-nots in contexts such as family law and racial justice—as well as contracts and transactional skills. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Texas Law Review and Columbia Journal of Gender & Law, and she is the author of Love’s Promises: How Contracts and Deals Shape All Kinds of Families (Beacon Press, 2015).

Michele Estrin Gilman is the Venable Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She writes in the areas of data privacy and gender equity, and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as California Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Washington University Law Review.

Leigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. She writes in the area of gender violence and is the author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (University of California Press, 2018) and Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (University of California Press, 2023).

Tristin K. Green is Professor of Law, Dean’s Circle Scholar, and Co-Director of the Work Law and Justice Program at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She writes in the areas of race and sex inequality and discrimination and is the author of Discrimination Laundering: The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace (California University Press, 2023).

Brittany K. Hacker is a VOCA Staff Attorney at Legal Services of Northern Virginia. She specializes in representing survivors of domestic violence in family law litigation.

Jennifer S. Hendricks is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Juvenile and Family Law Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She writes in the areas of sex differences, equality, and constitutional family law and is the author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood (University of California Press, 2023).

Tracy E. Higgins is Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. She writes in the areas of feminist theory and international human rights and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Harvard Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.

Emily Houh is the Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts and cofounder of the Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Much of her scholarship focuses on the interplay between contract law and critical race theory. An active member for many years of the Association of American University Professors (AAUP), she serves on the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, Committee on Historically Black Institutions and Scholars of Color, and Litigation Committee.

Anthony C. Infanti is the Christopher C. Walthour, Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He writes in the area of tax law and policy from both critical and comparative perspectives and is the author of Our Selfish Tax Laws: Toward Tax Reform That Mirrors Our Better Selves (MIT Press, 2018) and Tax and Time: On the Use and Misuse of Legal Imagination (NYU Press, 2022).

Kristin Kalsem is the Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and co-founder of the Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She writes in the areas of critical race/feminist legal theory, law and literature, commercial law, and participatory action research and is the author of In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Ohio State University Press, 2012).

Sally J. Kenney holds the Newcomb College endowed chair and is a faculty member in the Political Science Department at Tulane University. She served as the Executive Director of the Newcomb Institute from 2010–2022. Her research interests include sexual assault, gender and judging, judicial selection, feminist social movements, and pregnancy discrimination. She is the author of Gender and Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter (Routledge, 2013).

Amelia Loughland is a Judicial Associate at the Federal Court of Australia and was previously a commercial litigator at Herbert Smith Freehills. She writes in the areas of constitutional law and feminist theory, and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Federal Law Review, Melbourne University Law Review, and International Journal of Constitutional Law.

Linda C. McClain is the Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. She writes and teaches in the areas of feminist legal theory, gender and law, family law, and civil rights. The author of several books, including Who’s the Bigot?: Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights (Oxford University Press, 2020) and The Place of Families (Harvard University Press, 2006), she is currently working on the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 (with coeditor Aziza Ahmed).

Martha T. McCluskey, Professor Emerita and Senior Research Scholar at the University at Buffalo School of law, State University of New York, writes in the areas of feminist legal theory, political economy, and social welfare policy. She is the author (with Martha A. Fineman) of Feminism, Media and the Law (Oxford University Press, 1997) and serves as a member scholar for the Center for Progressive Reform and on the Boards of Directors for ClassCrits and APPEAL (Association for Promotion of Political Economy and Law).

Ann C. McGinley is the William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Boyd School of Law. She writes in the areas of employment discrimination and gender and is the author of Masculinity at Work: Employment Discrimination through a Different Lens (NYU Press, 2016), and the coeditor of Masculinities and the Law: A Multidimensional Approach (NYU Press, 2012) (with Frank Rudy Cooper).

Hilarie Meyers received her J. D., cum laude, from NYU School of Law in 2021, where she was an Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholar and served on the executive boards of OUTLaw and Moot Court Board, participated in the Reproductive Justice Clinic, and worked as a research assistant to Professor Melissa Murray. She is currently working to improve access to reproductive health care as an NYU Reproductive Justice and Women’s Rights Fellow.

Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network at New York University School of Law. She writes in the areas of constitutional law, family law, and reproductive rights and justice and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Columbia Law Review. She is a coauthor, with Kristin Luker, of Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice, the first casebook in this field.

Jennifer Nedelsky is a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. She writes on feminist legal theory, restructuring work and care, judgment, and property. She is the author of Law’s Relations: A Relational Theory of Self Autonomy and Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Part Time for All: A Care Manifesto, coauthored with Tom Malleson.

Michelle Oberman is the Katharine & George Alexander Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. She writes about legal issues arising at the intersection of sex, reproduction, and the law, focusing on the areas of abortion, infanticide, and statutory rape. Her books include Her Body, Our Laws: On the Frontlines of the Abortion War from El Salvador to Oklahoma (Beacon Press, 2018), and When Mothers Kill: Interviews from Prison (NYU Press, 2008).

Maria L. Ontiveros is Professor of Law and co-director of the Work Law and Justice Program at the University of San Francisco. She writes in the areas of workplace harassment of women of color, organizing immigrant workers, and modern-day applications of the Thirteenth Amendment. She is lead author of the casebook Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace.

Camille Gear Rich is the Dorothy Nelson Chair of Law and Professor of Law and Sociology at USC Gould School of Law. She writes in the areas of the First Amendment, race and the law, and feminist legal theory, and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as California Law Review, Harvard Law Review, and Georgetown Law Journal.

Julie C. Suk is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. She writes in the areas of comparative constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, employment law, and procedure and is the author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (Skyhorse, 2020).

Sarah L. Swan is an Associate Professor at Rutgers Law School. She writes in the areas of torts, local government law, and family law, and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Harvard Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and UCLA Law Review and Michigan Law Review.

Tracy A. Thomas is the Seiberling Chair of Constitutional Law at The University of Akron School of Law. She writes in the areas of constitutional gender equality and women’s legal history and is the author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law (NYU Press, 2016) and coeditor of Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law (NYU Press, 2011) (with Tracey Boisseau).

Deborah A. Widiss is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She writes in the areas of employment law, family law, and statutory interpretation, and her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Minnesota Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Yale Law Journal Forum.

Verna L. Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Equal Justice Works. She was Dean and Nippert Professor of Law at University of Cincinnati College of Law from 2019–2022, and a member of the College of Law faculty from 2001–2022. She is a critical race feminist scholar whose work examines the intersection of race, gender, and class in such areas as education law and policy. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Michigan Journal of Race and Law, William & Mary Journal of Women and Law, and Wisconsin Law Review.

Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of three books on social movement struggles around abortion, including the award-winning After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Harvard University Press, 2015), Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment (Yale University Press, 2022).