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Pamela Bridgewater

Professor of Law
On Leave

Phone: 202-274-4065
E-mail: vCard




Currently Teaching

There are no classes currently associated with this professor.

Areas of Specialization

  • Community Development Law
  • Gender and the Law
  • Legal History

Degrees & Universities

  • B.A., Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
  • J.D., Florida State University College of Law
  • LL.M., University of Wisconsin Law School

  • Selected Publications

    • Pamela Bridgewater, Gonzales v. Carhart: Continuing the Class Critique of the Reproductive Rights Doctrine and Movement, 59 S. C. L. Rev. 827 (Summer 2008).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, 'Of Slight Relevance': A Critical Economic Theory of Reproductive Labor, 56 Emory L.J. 1215 (Summer 2007).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Exploring Abortion Through a Personal, Political and Pedagogical Prism, in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (Adrien K. Wing, ed., N.Y.U. Press 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Ain't I A Slave: Slavery, Reproductive Abuses and Reparations, 14 UCLA Women's L.J. 89 (Fall 2005).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Exploring Abortion Through a Personal, Political and Pedagogical Prism, in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (Adrien K. Wing 2003).

    • + More Publications...

    • Pamela Bridgewater, New Approaches to Roe and Reproductive Rights, 5 Geo. J. Gender & L 817 (Fall 2004).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Reproductive Rights and Civil Freedom: The Thirteenth Amendment's Role in the Struggle for Reproductive Freedom, in Sources: Notable Selections in Race and Ethnicity (Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., ed., 3d ed., Dushkin/McGraw-Hill 2002).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Un/Re/Dis Covering Slave Breeding in the Thirteen Amendment Jurisprudence, Wash. & Lee Race & Ethnic Ancestry L.J. (Fall 2001).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Reproductive Rights and Civil Freedom: The Thirteenth Amendment's Role in the Struggle for Reproductive Freedom, 3 J. Gender, Race & Justice 401 (2000).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Connectedness and Closeted Questions: The Use of History in Developing Feminist Legal Theory, 11 Wis. Women's L.J. 351 (1997).

  • + Selected Works in Progress

    • Pamela Bridgewater, Breeding a Nation: Reproductive Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom (South End Press (forthcoming 2006)).

  • + Selected Presentations

    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Narratives in Critical Legal Feminist Theory (Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop, Emory University Law School, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 2007).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, From Slavery to Reconstruction to Black Power (African American Legal History Panel at the Southeastern Law School Association Annual Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 2007).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reading Gentleman: Race and Gender in Legal Academy (University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, July 2007).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Black Women and the Legal Profession (Holland and Knight, LLP., Wash., D.C., June 2007).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Scholarly Voices: Women of Color in Legal Scholarship (SE/SW People of Color Scholarship Conference, Florida A&M University College of Law, Tallahassee, Fla., Mar. 2007).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Symposium Moderator, Emerging Issues in Family Law (Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Feb. 2007).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Emerging Issues in Property Rights and Redevelopment (Northeast People of Color Scholarship Conference Nassau, Bahamas, July 2006).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Critical Economic Theory and the Rational Reproductive Actor (Columbia Law School, N.Y.C., N.Y., Mar. 2006).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Hurricane Katrina and Kelo: Implications for the Poor (National Lawyers Guild National Conference, Wash., D.C., Mar. 2006).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Economic Actor Reproductive Labor (Mid Atlantic People of Color Conference, Jan. 2006).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Constitutionalism and Reproductive Rights (University of Kwa Zulu Natal, Durban, S. Afr., Dec. 2005).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reproduction and Feminism (Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., 2005).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reproduction and Feminist Legal History (Socialist Scholars Conference, N.Y.C., N.Y., Mar. 2005).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Of Slight Relevance, Reproductive Decision Making and Free Trade in the Americas (Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop, Feb. 2005).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reproductive Slavery and Reparations: The New Tool in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom (St. Louis University School of Law Faculty Colloquim, St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 2004).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Tending the Ties that Bind: The Inescapably Interdependence of Lawyers, Activist, Academics, Historians and Journalists (Kopkind Colony Summer Retreat, Aug. 2004).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Racialized Reproduction: Sexual and Reproductive Exploitation as a Modality of Subordination (AALS Mid Year Conference on Race, 2004).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Integrating Gender into Legal Education (Lay and Society Annual Meeting, May 2004).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reproduction and Free Trade in the Americas (LATCRIT Colloquim/Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Arg., Aug. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, The History of Reproductive Rights in America (Gloria Steignam Institution Lecture Series, July 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Globalization and Reproduction: An Feminsit Legal Theory Activist Project (Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop/University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., Jun. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, The Prism of Race and Sexuality (Law School Admissions Council Annual Meeting, May 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Strange Bedfellows: Political Activism and teh Reproductive Rights Doctrine (Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., Apr. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Getting Real: Exploring the Symbolic Importance of Roe v. Wade (American University Washington College of Law Symposium, Wash., D.C., Apr. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Narratives in Legal Pedagogy (Georgetown Law Center, Wash., D.C., Mar. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reparations and the Female Slave Experience (Symposium on Reparations Depaul University, Chi., Ill., Mar. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reproductive Freedom and the Role of Midwives (American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Mar. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Sexual Identity and Race in the Legal Profession (Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Feb. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Women and Estate Planning (Women of Washington, Inc., Wash., D.C., Jan. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, The Other Thirty Years' War: Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect Reproductive Freedom (Feminist Majority Foundation, Annual Meeting, Wash., D.C., Jan. 2003).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Multidimensionality in Law School Admissions (NLGLA/Lavender Law, Phila., Pa., Oct. 2001).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reproduction, Slavery and Feminst Theory (Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., Oct. 2001).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, A Singular Silence: The Constitution on Matters of Sexual and Reproductive Abuses (Faculty Colloquium Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., Apr. 2001).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage: The Pitfalls of Single Issue Organizing (Association of American Law Schools, S.F., Cal., Jan. 2001).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Prisms, Space and Margins: Critical Queer Legal Theory (Critical Legal Studies Conference Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Fin., Sept. 2000).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Erasing the Alter: A Prismal Analysis of Transgender and Same-Sex Marriages (Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y., Nov. 2000).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Increase of Violence Against Women in the Military (American Association of Law Schools, Wash., D.C., Jan. 2000).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Narratology and Doctrine in American Legal History (Critical Legal Studies Conference University of London, London, Eng., Sept. 1999).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, History, Identity and Narrative: The Pursuit of Reproductive Freedom (Critical Race Feminism Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Nov. 1998).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Calling All Queers!: Sexual Orientation and the Legal Academican (NLGLA/Lavender Law Conference, Bos., Mass., Oct. 1998).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, The Norplant Crisis and the Thirteenth Amendment: Toward a Content Bas Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conneticuted Remedy for Reproductive Abuse (Critical Race Theory Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., Nov. 1997).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, The Globalization of the Reproductive Rights Discourse (Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich., Mar. 1997).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Towards a Feminist Lesbian Legal and Political Theory (National Women Law Student's Association, Long Beach, Cal., Feb. 1997).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, The Global Pursuit of Reproductive Freedom (Law and Society Association Annual Conference University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scot., July 1996).
    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Deviance and Feminst Theory: Learning from the Margins (National Women Law Student's Association, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., Mar. 1996).

  • + Selected Media Appearances

    • Pamela Bridgewater, Speech, Reproduction in the Americas (Encuentro Feminista, San Jose, Costa Rica, Dec. 2002).