Mary Ziegler

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.[6] 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 was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in spring 2022[7] and joined the law faculty at UC Davis in the fall of 2022.[1]

Ziegler is the author of five books on the history of abortion in the United States.[8] 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[9] and was reviewed in The Economist.[10] Her second book, Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Privacy, was published by Harvard University Press in 2018[11] and was reviewed in The New York Review of Books.[12] Her third book, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020[13] and was reviewed in The Christian Science Monitor[14] and The Washington Post.[15]

In 2022, Ziegler published a reference book titled Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States with Routledge Press.[16] Her most recent book, Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment was published by Yale University Press in June 2022[17] and was reviewed in The New York Times.[18] Kirkus Reviews called the book a "sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.”[19]

Ziegler has written on the legal history of abortion in the United States for The Atlantic,[20] CNN,[21] The New York Times,[22] and The Washington Post.[23] She also regularly comments on related topics for ABC News,[24] The New Yorker,[25] NPR,[26] and PBS NewsHour.[27] Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow has called her "the premier historian of abortion in the post-Roe era."[28]