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Tel: 215.898.6728
Email: smayeri@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- American Legal History
- Employment Discrimination Law
- Family Law
Bio
Serena Mayeri’s scholarship focuses on the historical impact of progressive and conservative social movements on legal and constitutional change.
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Serena Mayeri’s scholarship focuses on the historical impact of progressive and conservative social movements on legal and constitutional change. She is currently at work on a book, tentatively titled Reasoning from Race: Legal Feminism in the Civil Rights Era, which explores how lawyers, judges, activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens reasoned about the relationship between racial justice and women’s rights during the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to anti-discrimination law and legal history, Mayeri’s research and teaching interests include family law and policy. She is particularly interested in how changing family roles, composition and structures affect and are reflected in legal doctrines. Her doctoral dissertation received the Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians and Yale’s George Washington Eggleston Prize.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law – Assistant Professor (2006- )
New York University School of Law – Samuel I. Golieb Fellow (2004-06)
Law Clerk to the Hon. Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (2003-04)
Representative Publications
“Frontiero v. Richardson,” in Women and the Law Stories (Foundation Press, forthcoming 2009).
A New ERA or an New Era? Amendment Advocacy and the Reconstitution of Feminism, 103 NW.
U. L. REV. 1223 (2009).
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Women: United States Law, in OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (forthcoming).
Reconstructing the Race-Sex Analogy, 49 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1789 (2008).
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Gender Equality (with Nathaniel Persily, et al.), in Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Civil Rights on Both Sides: Reproductive Rights and Free Speech in Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York, in CIVIL RIGHTS STORIES (Foundation Press, 2008).
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How and Why Was Feminist Legal Strategy Transformed, 1960-1973? Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000 (website: Alexander Street Press, 2007).
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The Strange Career of Jane Crow: Sex Segregation and the Transformation of Anti-Discrimination Discourse, 18 YALE J. L. & HUM 187 (2006).
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Constitutional Choices: Legal Feminism and the Historical Dynamics of Change, 92 CAL. L. REV. 755 (2004).
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Note, “A Common Fate of Discrimination”: Race/Gender Analogies in Legal and Historical Perspective, 110 YALE L. J. 1045 (2001).
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