Mary L. Dudziak

Mary Louise Dudziak is an American legal theorist, civil rights historian, and a leading foreign policy and international relations expert. She is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University.[1] Her research has examined the intersection of race, civil rights, and the surprising influence of Cold War politics in accelerating the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[2] Dudziak is also a leading biographical scholar of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Her work has examined his role and influence in spreading American legal ideals and values abroad.[3]

Mary L. Dudziak
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)

Yale Law School (J.D)

Yale University (Ph.D)
OccupationLaw Professor
Known forCivil Rights History
Websitewww.marydudziak.com

Career

Before joining Emory University, Dudziak was the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she held joint appointments in USC's Department of History and Political Science. Prior to USC Law, she was a professor of Law and History at the University of Iowa, and a law clerk for Judge Sam J. Ervin, III, of the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals. Dudziak is also a distinguished visiting law professor at Harvard, Duke and at the University of Maryland.

Publications
  • War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (2012)
  • Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2011)
  • Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (2011)
  • Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (2006)
  • September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (2003)
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References
  1. "Mary L. Dudziak | Emory University School of Law | Atlanta, GA". Emory University School of Law.
  2. "Cold War Civil Rights". July 31, 2011 – via press.princeton.edu.
  3. "Exporting American Dreams". January 12, 2012 – via press.princeton.edu.
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