Dr. Cynthia Bowman

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Cynthia Grant Bowman joined Cornell Law School's Faculty in 2007 and has taught courses in Torts, Family Law, and Feminist Jurisprudence. She received her B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Prior to entering law school, she taught political science and spent a year at the University of Chicago as a National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellow in the history and philosophy of the social sciences. She earned her J.D. with honors from Northwestern University School of Law in 1982 and clerked for Judge Richard D. Cudahy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Bowman has published widely on issues of law pertaining to women, the legal profession, sexual harassment, and legal remedies for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. She authored one of the early texts on feminist legal theory, "Feminist Jurisprudence" (West Publishing, 1994), and co-authored casebooks focusing on women's rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her recent research has concentrated on the rights of cohabiting couples and their children.