Mary Ziegler
Mary Ziegler | |
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Born | 1982 (age 41–42) Butte, Montana, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University (BA, JD) |
Occupation | Legal historian |
Employer | UC Davis School of Law |
Website | www |
Mary R. Ziegler is an American legal historian. She holds the title Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law.[1]
Early life and education
Ziegler was born in 1982 and grew up in Montana.[2] She graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 2000[3] and Harvard College in 2004,[4] where she published short stories in the Harvard Advocate and taught English as a second language to refugee students through the Refugee Summer Youth Enrichment program.[2] Ziegler then earned her JD from Harvard Law School in 2007.[4] She lives in California with her husband and daughter.[5]
Career
Law
After graduating from law school, Ziegler clerked for Justice John Dooley of the Vermont Supreme Court before completing a Ruebhausen postgraduate fellowship at Yale Law School.[6] She began work as an assistant professor at the Saint Louis University School of Law in 2010 before joining the faculty at Florida State University College of Law in 2013.[4] She was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in spring 2022[7] and joined the law faculty at UC Davis in the fall of 2022.[1]
Author
Ziegler is the author of multiple books on the history of abortion in the United States.[8] Her first, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate, won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first manuscript in any discipline from Harvard University Press[9] and was reviewed in The Economist.[10] Her second book, Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Privacy, was published by Harvard University Press in 2018[11] and was reviewed in The New York Review of Books.[12] Her third book, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020[13] and was reviewed in The Christian Science Monitor[14] and The Washington Post.[15]
In 2022, Ziegler published a reference book titled Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States with Routledge Press.[16] Her book Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment was published by Yale University Press in June 2022[17] and was reviewed in The New York Times.[18] Kirkus Reviews called the book a "sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue."[19] In 2023, she published Roe: The History of a National Obsession.
Public engagement
Ziegler has written on the legal history of abortion in the United States for The Atlantic,[20] CNN,[21] The New York Times,[22] and The Washington Post.[23] She also regularly comments on related topics for ABC News,[24] The New Yorker,[25] NPR,[26] and PBS NewsHour.[27] Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow has called her "the premier historian of abortion in the post-Roe era."[28]
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