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Mary Ziegler
Gender Equality
Politics
Social Justice
Mary Ziegler helps organizations navigate polarization and constitutional debates through nonpartisan legal analysis. Mary works with leaders on reproductive rights law, democratic discourse, and political communication. UC Davis law professor, author of five books, featured in New York Times and The Atlantic.
Legal
Historian
Mary Ziegler is one of the foremost legal historians working on constitutional law and reproductive rights in the United States, offering audiences a nonpartisan framework for understanding America's most divisive debates.
A professor at UC Davis School of Law, Mary has written five books tracing the legal and political history of reproductive rights. Her analysis appears regularly in the New York Times and The Atlantic, where she breaks down complex legal shifts for broad audiences.
Mary's work helps organizations and audiences understand how polarization takes root and what it costs democratic institutions. She draws on decades of archival research and interviews with activists across the political spectrum to show how opposing sides misread each other's motives. Her approach replaces demonization with empathy, giving listeners concrete tools to engage with people they disagree with. As she puts it, "This isn't a women's issue, it's a democracy issue."
Audiences leave Mary's sessions with a clearer picture of how constitutional battles shape everyday policy, practical strategies for holding productive conversations across ideological lines, and a historically grounded understanding of where American law and politics may be headed next.
Book Mary Ziegler to give your audience the historical context and communication tools they need to navigate a fractured political landscape.
Mary brings unmatched constitutional expertise from UC Davis and five published books on reproductive rights law, giving leadership teams the historical context to decode polarization and its institutional costs. Her regular analysis in the New York Times demonstrates an ability to translate complex legal shifts into actionable insight, particularly valuable for organizations navigating policy uncertainty or stakeholder division.
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Mary Ziegler draws on decades of archival research and interviews with activists across the political spectrum to trace the legal and political history of reproductive rights, presenting findings through a nonpartisan framework that contextualises constitutional shifts for broad audiences.
Mary Ziegler speaks on the legal history of reproductive rights, constitutional law and political polarisation, and strategies for cross-ideological communication. She is a professor at UC Davis School of Law and the author of five books on the legal and political history of reproductive rights, with analysis published regularly in the New York Times and The Atlantic.
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