Naomi Mezey (she/her) received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she served as an articles editor for the Stanford Law Review. She also has a masters degree in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Professor Mezey served as law clerk for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She worked as a Legislative Aide to former Senator Alan Cranston. Her teaching fields include Legislation, Civil Procedure, Jurisprudence and Law and Culture.
Mezey’s interdisciplinary scholarship helped to create the field of law, culture, and humanities. Her research brings together law and cultural studies to focus on the legal regulation of racial, sexual, gender, and national identities. She also writes on film and visuality, cultural property, maternalism, bisexuality, legal violence, and sovereignty. Her work has been widely anthologized and her article on the erasure and recognition of race in the US census was selected for the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Mezey is currently working on a research collaboration on the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements with Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute as well as a book project about nationalism and secession with a focus on Catalonia’s recent attempt to gain independence from Spain.
Mezey serves on the Organizing Committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities and is a co-founder and co-convener of the Columbia, Georgetown, USC, UCLA, Penn & Stanford Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop. She sits on the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Law in Context and serves as an Academic Advisor to the Life of the Law Podcast.
Education:
Stanford University — J.D.
University of Minnesota — M.A.
Wesleyan University — B.A.