Dr. Lynda Dodd

Biography

Lynda Dodd is a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where she has been teaching since 2018. Her courses focus on the intersections of gender, race, law, and public policy, and she offers both undergraduate and graduate-level courses in qualitative methods. Dodd previously held the position of Joseph H. Flom Professor at the City University of New York-City College from 2010 to 2018 and served as a member of the law faculty at American University’s Washington College of Law from 2005 to 2010. Her career includes experience as a litigation associate at Sidley Austin and work at the Brennan Center for Justice. Dodd's research centers on American political constitutional development, constitutional law theory, jurisprudence, and civil rights litigation. She is the author of the forthcoming book, "Taming Rights Revolution: Supreme Court, Constitutional Torts, Elusive Quest Accountability" (Cambridge University Press), which delves into political and legal debates surrounding civil rights litigation under Section 1983 and the origins of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 during the Roberts Court era. Additionally, she is in the process of completing another book project titled "Sisterhood Struggle: Alice Paul, National Woman’s Party, Campaign Nineteenth Amendment." Dodd earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.

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