Jill Hasday
- Distinguished McKnight University Professor
- Centennial Professor in Law
Degrees
- Yale University, B.A.
- Yale Law School, J.D.
Expertise
- American Legal History
- Anti-discrimination Law
- Constitutional Law
- Disability
- Domestic Violence
Professor Jill Hasday teaches and writes about anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, family law, and legal history. She is the author of three books: Family Law Reimagined (Harvard University Press 2014), Intimate Lies and the Law (Oxford University Press 2019), and We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (Oxford University Press forthcoming 2025). Intimate Lies and the Law won the Scribes Book Award for “the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year” and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Family and Relationships.
Professor Hasday’s articles have appeared in many leading law reviews, including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, New York University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review.
Professor Hasday received her B.A. from Yale University in 1994, graduating summa cum laude with distinction in history and winning election to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1997, Professor Hasday graduated from Yale Law School, where she was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and received honors in all graded courses. After law school, Professor Hasday clerked for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Professor Hasday joined the University of Minnesota Law School as a tenured faculty member in 2005. She has been the Centennial Professor in Law since 2013.
In 2014, Professor Hasday became a Distinguished McKnight University Professor. The University of Minnesota awards this honor to its "most distinguished and highest-achieving mid-career faculty."
In 2018 and 2024, Professor Hasday won the Stanley V. Kinyon Tenured Teacher of the Year Award.
Professor Hasday is the Editor-in-Chief of Constitutional Commentary. Please visit the journal's webpage for more information and past issues.
Professor Hasday also runs the Public Law Workshop, which brings nationally recognized scholars to Minnesota to present their current work on public law topics. See the most recent Public Law Workshop schedule.
