Katie Eyer is an antidiscrimination law teacher, scholar, and
litigator. Her award-winning scholarship draws on legal history and
social psychology to illuminate contemporary debates in
antidiscrimination law and theory. Prior to entering academia,
Professor Eyer litigated precedent-setting cases on behalf of LGBT and
disabled employees.
Professor Eyer joined the Rutgers law faculty as an assistant professor
in June 2012. Her scholarship takes multidisciplinary
approaches to questions of contemporary antidiscrimination law, and has
appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as the University of
Pennsylvania Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law
Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Southern California Law
Review. Her recent work draws on archival and other historical
materials to illuminate contemporary debates in constitutional
antidiscrimination law and theory.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, 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. She 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 antidiscrimination litigator with the private firm of
Salmanson Goldshaw, PC, from 2007-2012.
