Participant Info
- First Name
- Katie
- Last Name
- Eyer
- City
- Philadelphia
- State
- PA
- Zip Code
- 19119
- Research Interests
- Constitutional Law, Anti-Discrimination Law, Employment Discrimination, LGBTQ Rights, Disability Rights, Racial Justice, Legal History
- Willing to be contacted by the media
- Yes
- On the academic market
- No
- University
- Rutgers Law School
- About Me
- Katie Eyer is an anti-discrimination law scholar, teacher and litigator. She is a leading expert on LGBT employment rights and on social movements' use of rational basis review to generate constitutional change. Her scholarship also explores the implications of history and social psychology for contemporary debates in anti-discrimination law across an array of other contexts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the UC Davis Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Professor Eyer is the recipient of several national, university and local awards for her scholarship, teaching, service, and work as a litigator, including the AALS Scholarly Papers Competition, the SALT Junior Faculty Award, the Dean's Award for Distinguished Service, and the Cheryl Ingram Advocate for Justice Award (LGBT rights advocacy). Most recently, Professor Eyer was awarded a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (awarded to those recently promoted with tenure whose work shows exceptional promise), a Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (awarded for excellence in teaching and scholarly work), and was voted Professor of the Year (Camden location). Professor Eyer is also an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Professor Eyer was a Research Scholar and Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where she conducted research in conjunction with the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality and taught Disability Law. Professor Eyer also litigated civil rights cases prior to entering academia full time, and secured a number of precedents in the Third Circuit expanding the legal rights of LGBT and disabled employees. From 2005-2007, she was a Skadden Fellow at Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, where she launched their employment rights project, providing direct legal services and engaging in impact litigation on behalf of LGBT employees.
Professor Eyer clerked for the Hon. Guido Calabresi in 2004-2005, and was a plaintiff-side anti-discrimination litigator with the private firm of Salmanson Goldshaw, PC from 2007-2012.
- Email
- katie.eyer@rutgers.edu
