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Jennifer L. Nye is a Senior Lecturer II in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a joint appointment in Law & Social Justice. She chairs the Five College Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Certificate Program and teaches courses focusing on intersections of law, gender, and social justice. Her academic career is complemented by over 12 years as a public interest attorney specializing in disability law, healthcare advocacy, and domestic violence litigation. Nye holds a law degree from Boston College Law School and previously taught at the University of Arizona's Women’s Studies Department and James E. Rogers College of Law.
Research interests include reproductive rights law, gender discrimination, and the historical underpinnings of legal frameworks. Her publications span legal manuals on domestic violence advocacy and groundbreaking feminist legal scholarship. She actively contributes to interdisciplinary initiatives across the Five Colleges, designing certificate programs that bridge legal practice and historical analysis.
Nye’s legal career includes victories at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging Medicaid cuts and representing survivors of domestic violence. This experience informs her teaching philosophy, which emphasizes training undergraduates to use law as a tool for systemic change. She advocates for historically marginalized communities through both academic and legal praxis.
