Mary Ziegler

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Mary Ziegler
Born1982 (age 41–42)
Butte, Montana, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA, JD)
OccupationLegal historian
EmployerUC Davis School of Law
Websitewww.maryrziegler.com

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[edit]

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[edit]

Law[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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]

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]

  1. ^ a b "Mary Ziegler". School of Law. University of California, Davis. May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Big Sky Scribe". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  3. ^ "Remembering Meredith Price". Andover. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Ziegler, Mary (September 9, 2019). "Curriculum Vitae: Mary Ziegler" (PDF) – via Florida State University.
  5. ^ "Details: About". Mary Ziegler. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  6. ^ "Mary Ziegler". Legal Talk Network. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  7. ^ "Mary Ziegler". Harvard Law School. Archived from the original on January 6, 2022. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  8. ^ "Mary Ziegler". Amazon.com. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  9. ^ "The Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize". Harvard University Press. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  10. ^ "Multiple choice". The Economist. June 18, 2015. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  11. ^ Ziegler, Mary (2018). Beyond Abortion. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674976702. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  12. ^ Halpern, Sue (2018). "The Known Known". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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
  16. ^ Zeigler, Mary (2022). Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States. Taylor & Francis Limited. ISBN 9781032102504. Retrieved May 19, 2022 – via Routledge.
  17. ^ Ziegler, Mary (2022). Dollars for Life. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300260144. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ "DOLLARS FOR LIFE". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  20. ^ "Mary Ziegler". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  21. ^ Ziegler, Mary (September 2, 2021). "Opinion: The sinister genius of Texas abortion law". CNN. CNN. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ 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.
  26. ^ 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.
  27. ^ 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.
  28. ^ "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.

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