Mary Ziegler

Ziegler 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]

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.[5] 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 will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in spring 2022.[6]

Ziegler is the author of three books on the history of abortion in the United States.[7] 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[8] and was reviewed in The Economist.[9] Her second book, Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Privacy, was published by Harvard University Press in 2018[10] and was reviewed in The New York Review of Books.[11] Her most recent book, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020[12] and was reviewed in The Christian Science Monitor[13] and The Washington Post.[14]

Ziegler has written on the legal history of abortion in the United States for The Atlantic,[15] CNN,[16] The New York Times,[17] and The Washington Post.[18] She also regularly comments on related topics for ABC News,[19] The New Yorker,[20] NPR,[21] and PBS NewsHour.[22] Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow has called her “the premier historian of abortion in the post-Roe era.”[23]

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• Faculty profile at Florida State University