Kate Redburn
About Me
I am a legal historian with expertise in anti-discrimination law and the First Amendment. My research links history, gender studies, and law to understand the evolving relationship between doctrine, identity, and political economy in the postwar United States. I have written on the rise of religious objection to anti-discrimination law, transgender constitutional history, and regulation of non-normative families.
I recently joined Columbia Law School as an associate professor of law and director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law after serving as an academic fellow. Prior to joining the faculty, I clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and helped found the Law and Political Economy Project. I am a graduate of Columbia University, Yale Law School, and will soon complete a Ph.D. in history at Yale.
My academic work has been published or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Law and History Review. In 2025, I was named Emerging Scholar of the Year by the Yale Law Journal.
Public scholarship is important to me. You can find my essays and book reviews about the history of sexuality, transgender politics, and constitutional law on the writing tab. My work and expertise has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, and the New Republic, among other media.
For current working papers, visit my SSRN page. CV available on request.
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