Serena Mayeri is a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at the New York University School of Law, and a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2001, where she served as Executive Editor and Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. She also held the Legal History Fellowship and coordinated the Legal History Forum in 2000-01. In 2003-04, she was a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her dissertation, "Reasoning from Race: The Civil Rights Paradigm and American Legal Feminism, 1960-1980," examines how lawyers, judges, activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens reasoned about the relationship between racial and gender equality during the 1960s and 1970s. Portions of this work have been published as "Constitutional Choices: Legal Feminism and the Historical Dynamics of Change," in the California Law Review, and "'A Common Fate of Discrimination': Race-Gender Analogies in Legal and Historical Perspective," in the Yale Law Journal. Serena's research interests include antidiscrimination law, family law, constitutional law and history, religion, immigration, and the history of progressive and conservative social movements.
Serena Mayeri is a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at the New York University School of Law, and a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2001, where she served as Executive Editor and Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. She also held the Legal History Fellowship and coordinated the Legal History Forum in 2000-01. In 2003-04, she was a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her dissertation, "Reasoning from Race: The Civil Rights Paradigm and American Legal Feminism, 1960-1980," examines how lawyers, judges, activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens reasoned about the relationship between racial and gender equality during the 1960s and 1970s. Portions of this work have been published as "Constitutional Choices: Legal Feminism and the Historical Dynamics of Change," in the California Law Review, and "'A Common Fate of Discrimination': Race-Gender Analogies in Legal and Historical Perspective," in the Yale Law Journal. Serena's research interests include antidiscrimination law, family law, constitutional law and history, religion, immigration, and the history of progressive and conservative social movements.