Linda McClain

Linda McClain is Professor of Law and the Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. She is also a Faculty Fellow in the Religion Fellows Program at the BU School of Theology. Her interests include family law and policy, gender law and policy, feminist legal theory, civil society, law and religion, political philosophy and reproductive issues. She is author of The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility (Harvard, 2006), co-editor of Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (Cambridge, 2009), co-author of Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard, forthcoming 2012), and co-editor of What Is Parenthood? (NYU, forthcoming 2012). A former faculty fellow at Harvard’s Center for Ethics and the Professions, she has been a visiting professor of law at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Virginia. She is Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Family and Juvenile Law.