Speakers: Gender and the Law

Katharine T. Bartlett

Katharine T. Bartlett, the A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, has published widely in the fields of family law, employment discrimination, and gender and law. Her book Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary, coauthored with Deborah L. Rhode (Little, Brown, 1993), is now in its fourth edition with Aspen Publishers and is the leading law school casebook in the field. Among her most well-known works, “Feminist Legal Methods,” published in the Harvard Law Review, is a classic work in feminist legal theory. She earned her degrees from Wheaton College, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. She served as dean of Duke Law from 2000 to 2007.

Lauren Berlant

Lauren Berlant is the George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is author of a trilogy on national sentimentality: The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life (University of Chicago Press, 1991), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Duke University Press, 1997), and The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Duke University Press, 2008). She has also edited a number of related volumes, including Intimacy (University of Chicago Press, 2000), Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest, with Lisa Duggan (New York University Press, 2001), and Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Routledge, 2004). She edited a special double issue of Critical Inquiry called “On the Case” (Summer 2007). Her Radcliffe talk comes from her forthcoming book, “Cruel Optimism.”

Jacqueline Bhabha

Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and a lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. From 1997 to 2001, she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She received a first-class honors degree and an MSc from Oxford University and a JD from the College of Law in London. She recently coauthored three reports about unaccompanied children seeking asylum. Her writings on issues related to migration and asylum in Europe and the United States include a coauthored book, Women’s Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law (Trentham Books, 1994), an edited volume, Asylum Law and Practice in Europe and North America: A Comparative Analysis (Federal Publications, 1992), and many articles, including “Internationalist Gatekeepers? The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights” in the Harvard Human Rights Journal and “The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child” in Development. She is currently working on issues of child migration, smuggling and trafficking, and citizenship.

Beshara Doumani

Beshara Doumani specializes in the use of legal records and family papers to write about the social history of greater Syria in Ottoman times. His forthcoming book, “Between Kin and Court: Gender, Property, and the Praxis of Islamic Law,” was mostly completed while on leave as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2007–2008. He is also the author of Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900 (University of California Press, 1995) and editor of two anthologies, Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender (State University of New York Press, 2003) and Academic Freedom after September 11 (Zone Books, 2006). He received his PhD from Georgetown University and taught at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley as an associate professor of Middle East history. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Lisa Duggan

Lisa Duggan is a professor of American studies and of gender and sexuality studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her interests focus on the history of sexuality and state regulation, as well as feminist and queer theory. She is the author of The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (Beacon Press, 2003) and Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (Duke University Press, 2000). She is the coauthor, with Nan D. Hunter, of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (Routledge, 1995) and coeditor, with Lauren Berlant, of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (New York University Press, 2001). She is currently at work on The End of Marriage: The War Over the Future of State-Sponsored Love (forthcoming, University of California Press).

Karen Engle

Karen Engle is the Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law and director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law. She is also a senior fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and a faculty member at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. Her work centers on the uses and interpretations of culture and identity in international law. She has written extensively on gender and international human rights and humanitarian law and is currently completing a book manuscript on international indigenous advocacy, Indigenous Roads to Development (forthcoming, Duke University Press). Her recently published works include “Judging Sex in War,” a review essay about Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (Michigan Law Review, 2008), “‘Calling in the Troops’: The Uneasy Relationship Among Human Rights, Women’s Rights, and Humanitarian Intervention” (Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2007), and “Feminism and Its (Dis)Contents: Criminalizing Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (American Journal of International Law, 2005). She received her BA from Baylor University and her JD from Harvard Law School and held a post-graduate fellowship in international law at Harvard Law School.

Maggie Gallagher

Maggie Gallagher is president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, whose motto is “strengthening marriage for a new generation” and unique mission is research and public education on ways that law and public policy can strengthen marriage as a social institution. Gallagher is a nationally syndicated columnist, the author of three books on marriage—most recently, The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially (Doubleday, 2000), with Linda J. Waite—and a leading voice in the new marriage movement. National Journal named her one of the most influential people in the same-sex marriage debate in 2004. She appears frequently on TV and radio and is frequently asked to lecture at colleges and law schools. She has testified as an expert witness on marriage before the US Senate and in various state legislatures. Her writings on marriage have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard, as well as scholarly journals such as the Louisiana Law Review and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. Gallagher is a graduate of Yale University. She lives with her husband and two children in Westchester, New York.

Nancy Gertner

Nancy Gertner is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She holds a BA from Barnard College and a JD from Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She also earned an MA in political science from Yale University. She has been an instructor at Yale Law School, teaching sentencing and comparative sentencing institutions, since 1998. Appointed to the bench in 1994, Gertner received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association’s Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities in August 2008, only the second woman to receive it. (Justice Ginsburg was the first.) She has been profiled in the ABA Journal, the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. In September 2008, she became a member of the International Center for Research on Women’s Leadership Council. Gertner has written widely on various legal issues, including constitutional and criminal law, criminal procedure, sex discrimination law, and the US sentencing guidelines. She has been the keynote speaker or panelist at both US and international conferences concerning civil rights, civil liberties, employment, and criminal justice and procedural issues.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg became associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1993. Prior to that appointment, she served on the bench of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Ginsburg has also been a professor at Columbia University School of Law and served on the law faculty of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She has taught at educational institutions around the world and been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In the 1970s, Ginsburg was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and litigated a series of cases solidifying a constitutional principle against gender-based discrimination. She has served on the board of editors of the ABA Journal and been secretary, board member, and executive committee member of the American Bar Foundation. Ginsburg served on the council of the American Law Institute and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LLB from Columbia Law School.

Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law at Yale Law School. She assumed this position after retiring in 2008 from the New York Times, where she was the newspaper’s Supreme Court correspondent for 30 years. Greenhouse is the author of a biography, Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey (Times Books, 2005), and has received several major journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she serves on the council, and an honorary member of the American Law Institute. She is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and serves on the advisory council of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She received the Radcliffe Medal in 2006. She has been a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and been awarded nine honorary degrees. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, which she attended on a Ford Foundation fellowship.

Barbara J. Grosz

Barbara J. Grosz is dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She previously served as the Institute’s dean of science, designing and building its science program. Grosz has been a Harvard University faculty member since 1986. Her research in computer science, focused on finding ways to make computers behave more intelligently, draws on work in linguistics, psychology, economics, and philosophy. Grosz has also led several Harvard University efforts to increase the participation of women in science. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1993, Grosz became the first woman president of the AAAI. She serves on the executive committee and is a former trustee of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence.

Brenda Marjorie Hale

Brenda Marjorie Hale has been a judge in the United Kingdom since 1994. She is the first and, so far, the only woman Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, the equivalent of a US Supreme Court justice. She was previously a judge in the Court of Appeal for England and Wales and, before that, in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice, the first to have made her career in academia and law reform rather than advocacy. After graduating from Cambridge, she spent 18 years on the academic staff of the University of Manchester School of Law, specializing in family and social welfare law. Her books include The Family, Law and Society (Oxford University Press, 2009), Women and the Law (Blackwell, 1984), and Parents and Children (Sweet & Maxwell, 1977). In 1984, she was the first woman to be appointed to the Law Commission, which promotes law reform, and she led its work in family law, much now implemented by Parliament. As a judge, she has taken a particular interest in equality and the rights of women and children. The Lords of Appeal in Ordinary are due to transfer to the new United Kingdom Supreme Court in October 2009.

Janet Halley

Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches family law, comparative family law, discrimination, and legal theory. She helped launch a law and humanities colloquium and is teaching a course on governance feminism in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality program at Harvard College this year. She has taught at Stanford Law School and in the law schools of the University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, and the American University of Cairo. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton University Press, 2006) and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy (Duke University Press, 1999). With Wendy Brown, she coedited Left Legalism/Left Critique (Duke University Press, 2002) and, with Andrew Parker, a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly, After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory. She recently convened a Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar, “Up Against Family Law Exceptionalism” and has two books nearing completion. She has a PhD in English from UCLA and taught English literature at Hamilton College before going to Yale Law School.

Hauwa Ibrahim

Hauwa Ibrahim—a lecturer at the University of Abuja and a senior partner in the Aries Law Firm in Abuja, Nigeria; a former visiting professor at Saint Louis University School of Law; and a current Radcliffe fellow—has a passion for bringing justice to the poor, illiterate, and disenfranchised people of her country. Ibrahim is best-known for her defense of Amina Lawal, a woman sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock, and has served as defense counsel in scores of pro-bono Sharia-related cases since 1999, when some Nigerian states adopted Islamic law for criminal cases. She was responsible for the first draft of the constitution of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) and served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme on widowhood practices in northern Nigeria. She has been a Humphrey Fellow at the American University Washington College of Law and a Yale World Fellow and has lectured around the world on topics such as “Sharia and the Rule of Law in Nigeria” and “No to Violence against Women.” She received the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession in 2004.

Linda K. Kerber

Linda K. Kerber is the May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, a professor of history, and a lecturer in law at the University of Iowa. Her books include No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill and Wang, 1998), Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays (University of North Carolina Press, 1997), and Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (University of North Carolina Press, 1980). She is at work on a book about statelessness in US history, for which “The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other: A View from the United States” (American Historical Review, 2007) is an introduction. She has been the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University and held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She has served as president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Studies Association, and is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Alice Kessler-Harris

Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University. She is also a professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Kessler-Harris specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. Her books include In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2001), A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences (University Press of Kentucky, l990), Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1982), and Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview (Feminist Press, l981). She also coedited Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880–1920 (University of Illinois Press, 1995) and U.S. History as Women’s History: New Feminist Essays (University of North Carolina Press, 1995). Her most recent book, Gendering Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2007), contains her essays on women’s work and social policy.

Gillian Lester

Gillian Lester is the Sidley Austin Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches contracts and employment law. From 1994 to 2006, she was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Law. Her publications include the articles “A Defense of Paid Family Leave,” in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender (Vol. 28, 2005); “Unemployment Insurance and Wealth Redistribution,” in the UCLA Law Review (Vol. 49, 2001); and “Careers and Contingency,” in the Stanford Law Review (Vol. 51, 1998), and the book, with Mark Kelman, Jumping the Queue: An Inquiry into the Legal Treatment of Students with Learning Disabilities (Harvard University Press, 1997). She is also the coauthor of a casebook and a treatise on employment law and an advisor to the American Law Institute project Restatement Third, Employment Law. Her recent scholarship explores the formation of social preferences concerning social insurance and risk pooling. She obtained a bachelor of science from the University of British Columbia, an LLB from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and a JSD from Stanford Law School.

Sandra L. Lynch

Sandra L. Lynch was appointed by President Clinton in 1995 as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and became chief judge in 2008. As chief judge, she also oversees the administration of the federal district courts in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico. She is the first and only woman on the court. Lynch was a partner in the Boston law firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot and head of its litigation department. Earlier, she was general counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Education, an assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a law clerk to a federal judge. She has been given the American Bar Association’s Difference Maker Award, the Boston Bar Association’s Judicial Excellence Award, the Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award, the Boston University School of Law Silver Shingle Alumni Award, and the Planned Parenthood Distinguished Service Award. A law review article reported that Lynch’s opinions were the third most-cited federal court of appeals opinions in the country. She received her degrees from Wellesley College and Boston University School of Law.

Margaret H. Marshall

Margaret H. Marshall is the chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. First appointed as an associate justice in November 1996, she was sworn in as chief justice by Governor A. Paul Cellucci in October 1999, following her confirmation by the Governor's Council. She will serve as chief justice until September 2014, when she reaches mandatory retirement age. Marshall is only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Judicial Court in its more than three-hundred-year history, and the first woman to serve as chief justice. A native of South Africa, Marshall graduated from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 1966, she was elected as president of the anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students and served in that capacity until 1968, when she came to the United States to pursue her graduate studies. She received a master’s degree from Harvard University and her JD from Yale Law School. Marshall was a partner in the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart before being appointed vice president and general counsel of Harvard University in 1992.

Emily J. Martin

Emily J. Martin is the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Women’s Rights Project, where she has worked since 2001. The ACLU Women’s Rights Project, founded in 1972 by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has been a leader in the legal battles to ensure women’s full equality in American society and focuses on violence against women, women and employment, equal educational opportunities, and women and the criminal justice system. At the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, Martin works on a variety of litigation challenging gender discrimination, with a special emphasis on the needs of low-income women and women of color. Her cases include challenges to sex-segregated education in public schools. Martin received her JD from Yale Law School and clerked for Judge T. S. Ellis, III, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and for Judge Wilfred Feinberg in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As a recipient of the Rita Charmatz Davidson Fellowship through the Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, she previously worked as counsel at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, DC.

Martha Minow

Martha Minow is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her subjects include constitutional law, civil procedure, human rights, and education law. Her books include Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair (Princeton University Press, 2002), Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (Beacon Press, 2002), Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence (Beacon Press, 1998), Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and the Law (New Press, 1997), Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (Cornell University Press, 1990), and casebooks on civil procedure and on women and the law. She served on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and helped to launch the Imagine Coexistence Project, sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. For five years, Minow partnered with the US Department of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology to expand access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities. Prior to teaching, she was a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2006 and the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award from Harvard Law School in 2005.

Sharon Rabin-Margalioth

Sharon Rabin-Margalioth is a professor of law at the Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) at Herzliya, Israel, and this year a global visiting professor of law at New York University School of Law. Rabin-Margalioth’s research focuses on employment and labor law policy. She has examined a wide variety of legal issues, including the decline of unionization, employment class actions, the growth of the contingent workforce, and the implication of various antidiscrimination and accommodation mandates. Her articles in Hebrew are often cited by the Israeli Supreme Court and the National Labor Court. She is the coeditor of Labor, Society and Law, the leading employment law journal in Israel. Rabin-Margalioth’s current interest is in the legal aspects of women’s work experiences and how legal reform can improve the working lives and labor-market opportunities of women. Her latest project discusses the gender wage gap. She advances the argument that the prevalent legal rule that enables employers to justify wage disparity with market explanations—such as individual wage expectations and bargaining ability—is a significant and unnecessary barrier to achieving pay equality.

Kimberly Jenkins Robinson

Kimberly Jenkins Robinson teaches education law and policy and civil procedure at Emory University School of Law. Her scholarly work focuses on education law and civil rights and examines such issues as a federal right to education, single-sex schools, and school integration. Her work has appeared in such law reviews as the Boston College Law Review and William and Mary Law Review. Robinson practiced education law when she worked for the Office of the General Counsel of the US Department of Education and for Hogan & Hartson LLP in Washington, DC. Her legal practice focused on litigation and policy issues regarding race, sex, national origin, and disability discrimination in public schools and universities, as well as education finance. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an articles editor for the Harvard Law Review, and has a BA in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. Robinson served as a law clerk for the Honorable James R. Browning of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Vicki Schultz

Vicki Schultz is the Ford Foundation Professor of Law and the Social Sciences at Yale Law School, where she teaches courses on employment discrimination law, workplace law, gender and the law, and feminist theory. Schultz has written and lectured widely on subjects related to antidiscrimination law. Her published work includes a number of widely cited articles published in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review. Schultz is currently working on two projects, one titled “Antidiscrimination Law as Disruption: The Emergence of a New Approach to Understanding and Addressing Discrimination” and “Will Marriage Make Gay and Lesbian Couples Less Egalitarian?” Schultz has been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (her alma mater) and the UCLA School of Law and a past president of the Labor and Employment Section of the Association of American Law Schools. At Yale, she runs the Workplace Theory and Policy workshop.

Ayelet Shachar

Ayelet Shachar is a professor of law and political science and the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Her scholarship focuses on citizenship and immigration law, highly skilled migrants, and transnational legal processes, as well as state and religion, family law, group rights, and gender equality. She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a distinguished visiting scholar at the Princeton University Program for Law and Public Affairs, an Emile Noel Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law, and the Connaught Research Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University of Toronto. She has also been the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School and the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Shachar has published articles in leading law reviews, social science journals, and edited collections and written The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (forthcoming, Harvard University Press) and Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001), winner of the 2002 First Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Foundations of Political Theory Organized Section.

Reva Siegel

Reva Siegel is deputy dean and the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale University. Siegel’s writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. She is currently writing on the role of social movement conflict in guiding constitutional change, addressing this question in recent articles on reproductive rights, originalism and the Second Amendment, the “de facto ERA,” and the enforcement of Brown. Her publications include The Constitution in 2020 (Oxford University Press, 2009), edited with Jack Balkin; Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers, 2006), with Paul Brest, et al.; and Directions in Sexual Harassment Law (Yale University Press, 2004), edited with Catharine A. MacKinnon. Siegel received her BA, MPhil, and JD from Yale University, clerked for Judge Spottswood Robinson on the DC Circuit Court, and began teaching at the University of California at Berkeley. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and active in the American Society for Legal History, the Association of American Law Schools, and the American Constitution Society, both nationally and as faculty advisor of Yale’s chapter.

Jeannie Suk

Jeannie Suk is an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Harry T. Edwards on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. She was also an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She received a BA in literature from Yale, a doctorate in literature from the University of Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a JD from Harvard Law School, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. She teaches criminal law and family law, and her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of those fields. Her second book, At Home in the Law (Yale University Press, 2009), is forthcoming.

Ying Sun

Ying Sun is a senior consultant, trainer, and program manager at TAOS Network, a China-based nongovernmental organization working on corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues and sustainability challenges in the global supply chain. She developed her interests and expertise in CSR-related fields during her studies at the Law School of Wuhan University, where she spent two years performing part-time pro bono legal work with the Center for Protection of Rights of Disadvantaged Citizens. Sun is currently working on two projects: One is a two-year project aimed at using innovative and worker-participatory training methodologies to enhance social compliance level at twenty Chinese supplier factories; the other, a pilot capacity-building program, “Sustainability in Suppliers Relation at Volkswagen.” Sun received her LLM degree from Harvard Law School in 2004, with a paper focusing on Chinese rural-urban migrant workers.

Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas is interested in the relationship between international law, political economy, and social justice. Most recently, she has focused on the nexus between trade, labor, and migration: This spring, she will research migrant worker patterns in northeast Africa. She recently published, with Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, and Hila Shamir, “From the International to the Local in Feminist Legal Responses: Four Studies in Contemporary Governance Feminism” in Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. Forthcoming works include an edited volume, with Joel Trachtman, titled Developing Countries in the WTO Legal System (Oxford University Press, 2009) and “Democratic Governance, Distributive Justice and Development,” in Distributive Justice in International Economic Law (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). Thomas joined Cornell University in 2007 as a professor of law and, prior to that, taught at University of Minnesota and Fordham Law School. At Cornell, she directs the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East. During 2007–2008, Thomas served as chair and Ibrahim Shihata Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo Department of Law. She is a founding member of the Labor Law and Development Research Network and has served as an international labor law consultant to the US Agency for International Development.

Kendall Thomas

Kendall Thomas is the Nash Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the cofounder and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include constitutional law, human rights, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, and law and sexuality. Thomas has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Princeton University and has taught or lectured around the world. Thomas’s writings have appeared in academic journals and volumes of collected essays, and he is a coeditor of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement (New Press, 1996) and What’s Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (Routledge, 2000). Thomas was an inaugural recipient of the Berlin Prize fellowship of the American Academy in Berlin and a member of the Special Committee of the American Center in Paris. He has chaired two sections of the Association of American Law Schools and is a founding member of the majority action caucus of ACT UP, Sex Panic, and the AIDS Prevention Action League. Thomas is a former member and vice chair of the board of directors of Gay Men's Health Crisis.

Philomila Tsoukala

Philomila Tsoukala joined the Georgetown University Law Center in 2006 as a visiting associate professor. She teaches family law, legal justice, and a seminar on the family and the market. Her research interests focus on the position of family law in the political economy of western liberal states, with a special emphasis on the gendered character of the legal regulation of the family and the market. Tsoukala has previously taught at the University of Texas School of Law through the Emerging Scholars Program; at Harvard Law School, where she held the Byse Fellowship; and at Harvard College, where she was a teaching fellow. She has a SJD from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree from Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, and an LLB from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Mona Zulficar

Mona Zulficar is a senior partner and chair of the executive committee of Shalakany Law Office, the largest and oldest law firm in Egypt and a leading law firm in the Middle East. She is recognized in almost all the international legal directories as the most prominent lawyer in Egypt in the fields of banking, project finance, investment banking, and particularly mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions. Since the 1980s, Zulficar has played an instrumental role in campaigns that have succeeded in the issuing of new laws enhancing equal rights of women and human rights in general, including a law for the equal right to divorce in 2000, a new law for nongovernmental organizations in 2002, the appointment of the first woman judge in 2003, equality under the Egyptian Nationality Law, and establishment of the family courts in 2004. She has also advocated for and succeeded in helping establish an ombudswoman’s office at the National Council for Women and an ombudsman’s office at the National Council for Human Rights, while a member of both councils. Zulficar was recently elected as one of the eighteen expert members of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee.
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