Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Catharine MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist specializing in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan and long-term visitor at Harvard Law School. She has taught at Yale, Chicago, Stanford, Columbia, and Hebrew University, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin) and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Her books include Sex Equality; Toward a Feminist Theory of the State; Only Words; Sexual Harassment of Working Women; Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws; and Are Women Human?
She created the concept that sexual abuse violates equality rights, pioneering the claim for sexual harassment as sex discrimination, and with Andrea Dworkin exposed the harms of pornography as civil rights violations. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian sexual atrocities, she established legal recognition of rape as genocide and won $745 million for them at trial. She works with Equality Now, an international NGO promoting sex equality worldwide, and is the special gender adviser to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Visiting Scholar itinerary:
Thursday-Friday, October 1-2
Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Thursday-Friday, October 15-16
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Monday-Tuesday, February 15-16
University of San Diego, California
Thursday-Friday, March 18-19
Alma College, Alma, Michigan