External links
- "Mary Ziegler". School of Law . University of California, Davis. May 12, 2022.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |
Mary Ziegler | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1982 (age 42–43) Butte, Montana, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, JD) |
| Occupation | Legal historian |
| Employer | UC Davis School of Law |
| Website | www |
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]
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]
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]
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. Her book, Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction [20] was published by Yale Press in April 2025.
Ziegler has written on the legal history of abortion in the United States for The Atlantic , [21] CNN, [22] The New York Times , [23] and The Washington Post . [24] She also regularly comments on related topics for ABC News, [25] The New Yorker , [26] NPR, [27] and PBS NewsHour. [28] Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow has called her "the premier historian of abortion in the post-Roe era." [29]
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
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |
