Mary Dudziak

Mary L. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and director of the Project on War and Security in Law, Culture, and Society. A leading scholar of U.S. legal history and the history of the United States in the world, she works at the intersection of U.S. domestic law and international affairs. Her scholarship addresses race and civil rights during the Cold War, war powers, constitutional law, legal history, diplomatic history, and foreign relations law. Dudziak earned a JD, MA, MPhil, and PhD in American Studies from Yale University, as well as an AB in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Emory in 2012, she served as Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, with joint appointments in the departments of history and political science. She was previously Professor of Law and History at the University of Iowa College of Law and clerked for Judge Sam J. Ervin III of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Visiting appointments include John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke Law School, William Nelson Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress.

Dudziak's key publications include War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2012), Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2000; second edition 2011), Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey (Oxford University Press, 2008), editor of September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (Duke University Press, 2003), and co-editor of Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Her articles appear in journals such as Diplomatic History, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Michigan Law Review, and periodicals including Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, and Washington Post. Honors include Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History (2017), President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2017), John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2007), fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2007-2008), and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (2014-2015). She founded the Legal History Blog, serves on the U.S. Department of State Historical Advisory Committee, and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dudziak teaches Foreign Relations Law, Constitutional Law, 20th Century U.S. Constitutional History, and seminars on war and security.

Professional Email: mary.dudziak@emory.edu