Jennifer S. Hendricks

Associate Professor of Law
B.A., 1993, Swarthmore College
J.D., 1998, Harvard University

Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Women and the Law

email: jsh (at) tennessee.edu
SSRN author page: http://ssrn.com/author=501615

Professor Hendricks joined the UT faculty in 2005. After receiving her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard, she clerked for the Hon. Karen Nelson Moore on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. For six years she practiced plaintiffs’ trial and appellate litigation in Montana, where she specialized in constitutional, employment, and discrimination cases. In her practice, Professor Hendricks successfully challenged illegal voter-redistricting and vote-counting, helped high school girls win equal sports opportunities, won access to government documents for reporters and private citizens, and defended against defamation claims. She also represented victims of harassment and discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation.

While at Harvard, Professor Hendricks served as a research assistant and taught legal reasoning and analysis. Her third-year paper on the Violence Against Women Act won the Notre Dame Feminist Jurisprudence Prize. Her research interests include sex equality and federal-state relations.

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Representative Publications

Popular Election of the President: Use or Abuse of the Electoral College?, 8 Election L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2008).

Essentially a Mother, 13 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 429 (2007). Honorable Mention, AALS Scholarly Papers Competition.

Preemption of Common Law Claims and the Prospects for FIFRA: Justice Stevens Puts the Genie Back in the Bottle, 15 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol’y Forum 65 (2004).

Women and the Promise of Equal Citizenship, 8 Tex. J. Women & L. 51 (2000). Winner, Notre Dame Feminist Jurisprudence Competition.

Works in Progress

Contingent Equal Protection

Power Grab and Category Error: Semtek and the Federal Rules

"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone"

February 28, 2008