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, 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. 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.