Mary Ziegler
Mary Ziegler is an American legal historian who is the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law. Early life and education. Ziegler grew up in Montana. She graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 2000 and Harvard College in 2004, where she published short stories in the Harvard Advocate and taught English as a second language to refugee students through the Refugee Summer Youth Enrichment program. Ziegler then earned her JD from Harvard Law School in 2007. Career. 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. 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. She will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in spring 2022. Authorship. Ziegler is the author of three books on the history of abortion in the United States. 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 and was  reviewed in "The Economist". Her second book, "Beyond Abortion:" Roe v. Wade "and the Fight for Privacy", was published by Harvard University Press in 2018 and was reviewed in "The New York Review of Books". Her most recent book, "Abortion and the Law in America:" Roe v. Wade "to the Present", was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020 and was reviewed in "The Christian Science Monitor" and "The Washington Post". Public engagement. Ziegler has written on the legal history of abortion in the United States for "The Atlantic", "CNN," "The New York Times", and "The Washington Post". She also  regularly comments on related topics for ABC News, "The New Yorker", NPR, and PBS NewsHour. Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow has called her “the premier historian of abortion in the post-"Roe" era.”