Jennifer S. Hendricks
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., 1993, Swarthmore College
J.D., 1998, Harvard University
Jennifer Hendricks
Courses Taught
- Civil Procedure
- Complex Litigation
- Law and Gender
- Constitutional Law
- Advanced Constitutional Law
About
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.