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American legal historian
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]
Bibliography
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
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a
b
"Mary Ziegler" .
School of Law . University of California, Davis. May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2022 .
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a
b
"Big Sky Scribe" .
The Harvard Crimson . Retrieved October 1, 2021 .
^
"Remembering Meredith Price" .
Andover . Retrieved October 1, 2021 .
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a
b
c
Ziegler, Mary (September 9, 2019).
"Curriculum Vitae: Mary Ziegler" (PDF) – via
Florida State University .
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"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 .
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"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 .
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