Kate Redburn
Biography
I study legal history and theory of gender, sexuality, and political economy in the late 20th and early 21st century United States. My legal scholarship braids legal history, constitutional law, and anti-discrimination law. I hold a JD from Yale Law School, and am a PhD candidate in the Department of History and program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies also at Yale.
My primary research project traces the rise of religious objection to anti-discrimination law, explaining how public accommodations law re-configured the space of the market at the turn of the 21st century. I am also working on a secondary project about transgender legal history in the U.S. For the academic year 2020-2021, I worked as a law clerk to the Hon. Guido Calabresi on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
In the fall of 2022 I will join Columbia Law School as an Academic Fellow.
I’m also an active part of the Law & Political Economy community, and served for two years as the first Managing Editor of the LPE Project’s Law & Political Economy Blog. Prior to starting graduate school, I was a community organizer in New York, and a photographer and oral historian in Argentina thanks to a Fulbright Research Grant. You can also find my writing in magazines. (See writing tab.)
For current working papers, visit my SSRN page. CV available on request.
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