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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. Her book, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution, was recently published by Harvard University Press.
Mayeri's current project examines the history of challenges to marriage's primacy as a legal institution and a source of public and private benefits. She teaches courses in family law, employment discrimination, gender and the law, and legal history.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law – Professor of Law and History (2011-); Assistant Professor (2006-11)
Law Clerk to the Hon. Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (2003-04)
New York University School of Law – Samuel I. Golieb Fellow (2004-06)
Representative Publications
REASONING FROM RACE: FEMINISM, LAW, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION (Harvard University Press, 2011).
“When the Trouble Started”: Frontiero v. Richardson, in WOMEN AND THE LAW STORIES (Elizabeth M. Schneider & Stephanie M. Wildman, eds., 2011).
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Women: United States Law, in OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (Stanley N. Katz, ed., 2009).
A New ERA or an New Era? Amendment Advocacy and the Reconstitution of Feminism, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 1223 (2009), reprinted in WOMEN AND THE LAW (Jane Campbell Moriarty ed., 2010).
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Pauli Murray, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (David Spinoza Tanenhaus, ed., 2008).
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 (Nathaniel Persily et al., eds., 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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Current & Recent Research
Representative Professional Activities
Secretary, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Planning Committee, AALS Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality
Contributing Editor, Jotwell Legal History Section., 2010-present.
Peer Reviewer, Law and History Review, 2008-present; Oxford University Press, 2009-
present.
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