Serena Mayeri is the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, with a secondary appointment in the Department of History and membership in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) Program. Her work examines the interplay between social movements and legal change, focusing on feminist legal strategies, reproductive rights, family law, and constitutional history. She authored Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (2011) and is completing Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law (Yale, 2025). Her research has been published in top law journals and cited in high-profile legal debates, including Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization . Teaching courses in family law, employment discrimination, and legal history, Mayeri co-authored amicus briefs on abortion rights and gender equality. Awards include the Littleton-Griswold Prize, Darlene Clark Hine Award, and Gorman Teaching Award. She serves on executive committees for GSWS and the Andrea Mitchell Center for Democracy Studies, emphasizing interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Recent publications analyze post- Dobbs constitutional frameworks, marital supremacy critiques, and intersectionality in feminist advocacy. Her op-eds critique GOP policy misrepresentations and Trump administration actions, demonstrating commitment to public legal discourse. Though no explicit grants are cited, her work intersects with funded research on legal history and social justice.










