Dr. Maureen Brady

Biography

Maureen Brady is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law and Deputy Dean at Harvard Law School. She teaches property law related subjects and her scholarship extensively uses historical analyses of property institutions and land use doctrines to explore broader theoretical questions. Her current research projects delve into the relationship between covenants and zoning, the persistence of community knowledge in property doctrine, and the historical context of state constitutional law. Brady serves as an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Fourth Restatement of Property. Previously, she was a faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was honored with the 2019 UVA Student Council Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2018 Z Society Distinguished Faculty Award for her impactful contributions to students. Her recent article, “The Forgotten History Metes Bounds,” was awarded the Association of American Law Schools’ Scholarly Papers Prize. Additionally, she received the American Society of Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize for her work as an early-career scholar. Brady earned her A.B. summa cum laude in History from Harvard College, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received the Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation Women’s Athletics Prize. She obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a two-time recipient of the Parker Prize in legal history. After graduating, she clerked for Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit before practicing as a corporate associate at Ropes Gray focusing on intellectual property transactions, and later pursued her Ph.D. in Law at Yale University.

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