Sally Kenney

Areas of Expertise

Women, law, and public policy; judicial selection; women and electoral politics; feminist organizations; the European Union; employment discrimination; women judges

Biography

Sally J. Kenney joined the Humphrey Institute faculty in 1995 after holding joint appointments in Political Science, Women's Studies, and Law at the University of Iowa.

Her research interests include gender and judging, judicial selection, feminist social movements, the European Court of Justice, exclusionary employment policies, and pregnancy discrimination. She served as a consultant to the US Congress's House Education and Labor Committee on discrimination resulting from fetal protection policies.

She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Magdalen College, Oxford, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Iowa.

She is the author of For Whose Protection? Reproductive Hazards and Exclusionary Policies in the United States and Britain, and is the co-editor of Politics and Feminist Standpoint Theories and Constitutional Dialogues in Comparative Perspective. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Women and Politics, and Judicature as well as in law reviews. She is currently at work on a book entitled Gender and Judging.

She teaches "The Politics of Public Affairs, the political science component of the core,"Survey of Women, Law, and Public Policy in the U.S." "Case Studies on Women and Public Policy," and seminars on "Feminist Organizations" and "Women and Electoral Politics." She advises students concentrating their studies in women and public policy.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Selected Writings

• Femocrats and Judicial Selection: Reconceptualizing Social Movement Insiders

• Thinking about gender and judging. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 15:1,87-110. 2008.

• Gender on the Agenda: How the Paucity of Women Judges Became an Issue. Journal of Politics 70(3): 717-735. 2008.

• Revolutionary Changes. Judicature, 89 (4): 232. 2006.

• Getting Comfortable with Women's Expertise. Minnesota Women in Political Science. Center on Women and Public Policy. 2006.

• Domestic Violence Intervention Program: Unconditional Shelter? Nonprofit Management and Leadership 16 (2): 221-243. 2005.

• Reading for Change. BookWomen 10 (1): 8-9. 2005.

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Representation: Extending the Frame to Courts. Social Politics 11 (1): 86-116. 2004.

• The Constitutional Status of the Family and Medical Leave Act. After Birth Signature Study Conference Proceedings, October 1, 2004.

• Novel Sleuth. BookWomen, 9 (2): 20-21. 2004.

• Britain Appoints First Woman Law Lord. Judicature, 87 (4): 189-190. 2004.

• Family and Medical Leave: When World is Designed to Work Better for Caretakers, Everyone Benefits. St. Paul Pioneer Press: 13A. August 12, 2004.

• Gender, the Public Policy Enterprise, and Case Teaching. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23 (1) 159-178. 2004.

• Where is Gender in Agenda Setting? Women & Politics, 25 (1/2): 179-207. 2003.

• United Kingdom's Judicial System Undergoes Major Reform. Judicature, 2: 2-5. 2003.

• How Judges Work: Thinking about Social Science and Law. Perspectives on Politics, 1 (2): 369-371. 2003.

• Politics Will Inevitably be a Part of Judicial Selection. Guest Editorial, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 14, 2003.

• Breaking the Silence: Gender Mainstreaming and the Composition of the European Court of Justice. Feminist Legal Studies, 10: 257-270. 2002.

• Counting Women Judges: The Intersection of Law and Politics. In Center for Economics Progress (ed.), Critical Junctures in Women's Economic Lives: A Collection of Symposium Papers. St. Paul, MN: Center for Economic Progress. 2002.

• Where are the Women in Public Policy Cases? Women's Policy Journal of Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1: 87-98. 2001.

• Using the Master's Tools to Dismantle the Master's House: Can we Harness the Virtues of Case Teaching? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 20 (2): 346-50. 2001.

• Our Bodies, Our Sleuths. BookWomen 5(2): 13-14. 2000-2001.

• Sisters and Sluts. BookWomen 4(4): 16-17. 2000.

• Beyond Principals and Agents: Seeing Courts as Organizations by Comparing Référendaires at the European Court of Justice and Law Clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court.
  Comparative Political Studies, 33 (5): 593-625. 2000.

• Puppeteers or Agents? What Lazarus's Closed Chambers Adds to our Understanding of Law Clerks. Law & Social Inquiry, 25 (1): 185-226. 2000.

• Tenure in a Chilly Climate. Coauthored with Susan Sterett, P/S, March 1999.

• The Members of the European Court of Justice. Columbia Journal of European Law, 5 (1): 101-133. 1998. Partially reprinted in The Law and Economics of the European Union, by Paul Stephan, Francesco Parisi, and Ben Depoorter, Newark, NJ: Mathew Bender, 2003.

• The European Court of Justice: Integrating Europe through Law. Judicature, 81 (6): 250-255. 1998.

• New Research on Gendered Political Institutions. Political Research Quarterly, 49 (2): 445-466. 1996.

• Pregnancy Discrimination in Comparative Perspective: Toward Substantive Equality. Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, 10: 351-402. 1996.

• Women, Feminism, Gender and the Law: Ruminations of a Feminist Academic. Women and Politics 15 (3): 43-67. 1995.

• Who is Protected? What's Wrong with Exclusionary Policies. Co-published simultaneously in Women & Politics, 13 (3/4): 153-173; and in Janna C. Merrick and Robert H. Blank (eds.), The Politics of Pregnancy: Policy Dilemmas in the Maternal-Fetal Relationship, 153-173. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, Inc. 1993.

• Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace: The Law and Sexual Difference. International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 14: 393-414. 1986.

Courses Taught

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