Courses Taught

American Legal History
Constitutional Law
Employment Discrimination
Family Law
Property

Profile

Professor Deborah Dinner is a legal historian whose research focuses on the history of gender, work, and family. Professor Dinner previously served as Harvard University’s Raoul Berger–Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow and New York University’s Samuel I. Golieb Fellow. Her scholarship focuses on the history of feminism and employment opportunity; sex equality and reproductive liberty; and child care and social policy. She is a member of the American Society for Legal History, Law and Society Association, and American Historical Association. Professor Dinner clerked for Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. As a graduate student at Yale University, she served as articles editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. In 2012, she received her Ph.D. from Yale University for a dissertation titled, "Pregnancy at Work: Sex Equality, Reproductive Liberty, and the Workplace, 1964-1993."