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Mary Anne Case is the Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, with research focusing on feminist jurisprudence, constitutional law, and the intersection of gender, religion, and legal institutions. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, she has taught at multiple universities including University of Virginia and Princeton, and served as Bosch Public Policy Fellow in Berlin and Crane Fellow at Princeton.
- Teaches subjects: feminist jurisprudence, constitutional law, regulation of sexuality, family law, religious freedom
- Academic Affiliations: Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (board member), Law and Rationality Institute
Research spans gender equality, reproductive rights, and Vatican's gender ideology, with particular focus on how religious institutions interact with sexual civil rights. Her work examines historical feminist movements and contemporary legal challenges in marriage and family law.
Notable awards include the Crane Fellowship (Princeton) and Berlin Prize (Bosch Foundation). She frequently presents at international conferences on topics like same-sex marriage comparisons, feminist constitutionalism, and gendered spaces in legal institutions.
As a public intellectual, Professor Case has engaged in debates with figures like Judge Richard Posner and Martha Nussbaum on the state of feminism. Recent work analyzes pandemic-era Egalitarian Catholic movements through legal frameworks, documenting how women's leadership emerged during church closures.
