Rate My Professor Jennifer Nye

Nye’s academic interests center on the United States, women, gender, sexuality, and family, with research in critical legal theory, critical race theory, feminist jurisprudence, and the role of law and litigation in social movements addressing LGBT rights, disability, domestic violence, reproductive rights, and poverty law. She teaches courses such as Women and the Law: History of Sex and Gender Discrimination, Rape Law: Gender, Race, (In)Justice, History of Reproductive Rights Law, Sex and the Supreme Court, Social Justice Lawyering, U.S. Women’s History from 1890, and Liberty or Equality?: History of the LGBT Rights Law. Her publications include "The Gender Box" in the Berkeley Women’s Law Journal (1998), "Legal Response to Domestic Violence in the GLBT Community" in Domestic Violence and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community: A Resource (2000), The Nuts and Bolts of Domestic Relations and Domestic Violence Law (CLE Seminar Manual, 2001), and An Overview of Arizona Medicaid Services & Due Process Rights (CLE Seminar Manual, 2009). In 2023, she received the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for her exceptional teaching, mentoring, and curriculum development.