Mary R. Ziegler (born 1982) is an American legal scholar. She is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law.[1]
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 |
Early life and education
editZiegler 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
editLaw
editAfter 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
editZiegler 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
editZiegler 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]
Bibliography
edit- After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (2015)
- Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy (2018)
- Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present (2020)
- Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States (2022)
- Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment (2022)
- Roe: The History of a National Obsession (2023)
References
edit- ^ a b "Mary Ziegler". School of Law. University of California, Davis. May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
- ^ a b "Big Sky Scribe". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ "Remembering Meredith Price". Andover. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ a b c Ziegler, Mary (September 9, 2019). "Curriculum Vitae: Mary Ziegler" (PDF) – via Florida State University.
- ^ "Details: About". Mary Ziegler. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
- ^ "Mary Ziegler". Legal Talk Network. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ "Mary Ziegler". Harvard Law School. Archived from the original on January 6, 2022. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ "Mary Ziegler". Amazon.com. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ "The Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize". Harvard University Press. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ "Multiple choice". The Economist. June 18, 2015. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Ziegler, Mary (2018). Beyond Abortion. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674976702. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Halpern, Sue (2018). "The Known Known". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Ziegler, Mary (2020). Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108653138. ISBN 9781108653138. S2CID 214326295.
- ^ Stern, Seth (June 29, 2020). "Fifty years of legal skirmishes have deepened the divide over Roe v. Wade". The Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Pollitt, Katha (May 13, 2020). "The long fight for reproductive rights is only getting harder". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
Book review of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America by David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe and Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present by Mary Ziegler and Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood by Michele Goodwin
- ^ Zeigler, Mary (2022). Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States. Taylor & Francis Limited. ISBN 9781032102504. Retrieved May 19, 2022 – via Routledge.
- ^ Ziegler, Mary (2022). Dollars for Life. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300260144. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
- ^ Szalai, Jennifer (June 12, 2022). "Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
- ^ "DOLLARS FOR LIFE". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
- ^ "Mary Ziegler". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Ziegler, Mary (September 2, 2021). "Opinion: The sinister genius of Texas abortion law". CNN. CNN. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Ziegler, Mary (August 26, 2021). "Opinion | Texas Has Cleared a Path to the End of Roe v. Wade". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Ziegler, Mary (May 18, 2021). "Perspective | Abortion is legal until a fetus is viable. Will the Supreme Court change that standard?". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Dwyer, Devin (September 2, 2021). "Why the Texas abortion law could be in effect for 'months at a minimum'". ABC News. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Chotiner, Isaac (June 29, 2020). "What John Roberts's Surprise Abortion-Rights Ruling Means for the Future of Roe v. Wade". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ McCammon, Sarah (September 21, 2021). "Doctor Who Defied State's Abortion Law Is Sued, Launching A Legality Test Of The Ban". NPR. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ Woodruff, Judy (September 1, 2021). "Texas is using sovereign immunity to restrict abortions. Why is the Supreme Court silent?". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ^ "Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present". Indybay. December 10, 2020 [Posted 2020-12-10, event January 14, 2021]. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
External links
edit- "Mary Ziegler". School of Law. University of California, Davis. May 12, 2022.
- Appearances on C-SPAN