Catharine MacKinnon
The students were advised by Catharine MacKinnon, who had just graduated from Yale Law School. MacKinnon was working on her groundbreaking book, "Sexual Harassment of Working Women", and shared pre-publication copies with the Women’s Rights Litigation Clinic at Rutgers Law School, which represented Alexander and her co-plaintiffs. "Alexander v. Yale" was an early test of MacKinnon’s theory that sexual harassment constituted sex discrimination.