Mary Ziegler

In 2022, Ziegler published a reference book titled Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States with Routledge Press. Her most recent book, Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment was published by Yale University Press in June 2022 and was reviewed in The New York Times. Kirkus Reviews called the book a "sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.”

Ziegler is the author of five books on the history of abortion in the United States. Her first, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate, won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first manuscript in any discipline from Harvard University Press and was reviewed in The Economist. Her second book, Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Privacy, was published by Harvard University Press in 2018 and was reviewed in The New York Review of Books. Her third book, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020 and was reviewed in The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post.

After graduating from law school, Ziegler clerked for Justice John Dooley of the Vermont Supreme Court before completing a Ruebhausen postgraduate fellowship at Yale Law School. She began work as an assistant professor at the Saint Louis University School of Law in 2010 before joining the faculty at Florida State University College of Law in 2013. She was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in spring 2022 and joins the law faculty at UC Davis in the fall of 2022.

Ziegler was born in 1982 and grew up in Montana. She graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 2000 and Harvard College in 2004, where she published short stories in the Harvard Advocate and taught English as a second language to refugee students through the Refugee Summer Youth Enrichment program. Ziegler then earned her JD from Harvard Law School in 2007. She lives in California with her husband and daughter.