Mary Clark
Assistant Professor of Law
Office: Room 318
Phone: 202-274-4367
E-mail: mlclark@wcl.american.edu
Mary L. Clark is assistant professor at the WCL, teaching Property, Legal Ethics, and a seminar on Women's Legal History/History of Women in the Legal Profession. Prior to coming to the WCL, Clark was a visiting lecturer and research scholar at Yale Law School, and a Supreme Court fellow with the Federal Judicial Center. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Harvard Law School, she clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Montgomery, Alabama, before joining the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as an appellate attorney, concentrating on issues of sexual harassment and disability rights law.
Currently Teaching
- LAW-518-002 Property
- LAW-550-003 Legal Ethics
- LAW-769-004 Judicial Externship Seminar
- LAW-899-004 Supervised Externship
- LAW-979-001 Women's Legal History
- LAW-550-002 Legal Ethics
- LAW-815-001 Feminist Jurisprudence
Degrees & Universities
- A.B., Bryn Mawr College
- J.D., Harvard Law School
Selected Publications
- Mary Clark, Keep Your Hands Off My (Dead) Body: A Critique of the Ways in Which the State Disrupts the Personhood Interests of the Deceased and His or Her Kin in Disposing of the Dead and Assigning Identity in Death, 58 Rutgers L. Rev. 45 (Fall 2005).
- Mary Clark, One Man's Token Is Another Woman's Breakthrough? The Appointment of the First Woman Federal Judges, 49 Vill. L. Rev. 487 (2004).
- Mary Clark, Carter's Groundbreaking Appointment of Women to the Federal Bench: His Other 'Human Rights' Record, 11 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Policy & L. 1131 (2003).
- Mary Clark, Changing the Face of the Law: How Women's Advocacy Groups Put Women on the Federal Judicial Appointments Agenda, 14 Yale J.L. & Feminism 243 (2002).
- Mary Clark, The Founding of the Washington College of Law: The First Law School Established by Women for Women, 47 Am. U. L. Rev. 613 (1998).
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More Publications...
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- Mary Clark, Why Care About the History of Women in the Legal Profession?, 27 Rutger's Women's Rights L. Rep. 59 (2006).
- Mary Clark, Treading on Hallowed Ground: Implications for Property Law and Critical Theory of Recognizing the ‘Consecrated’ Nature of Land Associated with Human Death and Burial, 94 Ky. L.J. 487 (2005-2006).
- Mary Clark, Reconstructing the World Trade Center: An Argument for the Applicability of Personhood Theory to Commercial Property Ownership and Use, 109 Penn St. L. Rev 815 (2005).
- Mary Clark, Women as Supreme Court Advocates, 1879-1979, 30 J. S. Ct. Hist. 47 (2005).
- Mary Clark, Lessons Learned from the World Trade Center for Boston's Big Dig and Public Open Space Planning, 32 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 301 (2005).
- Mary Clark, Op Ed: A Fresh Start at Ground Zero, N.Y. Times A27 (May 5, 2004).
- Mary Clark, The First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900, 36 S.D. L. Rev. 87 (1999).
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Selected Presentations
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Commentary on Professor Susanna Fischer, “History of Judicial Compensation,” (D.C.-area Legal History Roundtable, Wash., D.C., Nov. 2007).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Women Judges Speaking Out (New Women’s Legal History Symposium, University of Akron Law School, Akron, Ohio, Oct. 2007).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Not My Brethren’s (Gate) Keeper? (Texas-Wesleyan University Law School Faculty Workshop, Fort Worth, Tex., Apr. 2007).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Symposium: Twenty Years of Legal Ethics: Past, Present, and Future (Georgetown University Law Center, Wash., D.C., Oct. 2006).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Commentary on Professor Renee Lerner Lettow, “American Judges, English Judges, and the Power to Comment on Evidence" (D.C.-area Legal History Roundtable at George Washington University Law School, Wash., D.C., Sept. 2006).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, The Legal Semiotics of Death and Burial (McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal, Quebec, Can., 2005).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Keep Your Hands Off My (Dead) Body (Emory University Law School, Atlanta, Ga., 2005).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Treading on Hallowed Ground (American Association of Law Schools Mid-Year Meeting, 2004).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, A History of Supreme Court Advocacy by Women, 1879-1979, Leon Silverman Endowed Lecture Series (Supreme Court Historical Society, U.S. Supreme Court, Wash., D.C., 2004).
- Mary Clark, Organizer & Moderator, Redeveloping the World Trade Center Site: A Study in Land Use Planning (American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., 2004).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Lessons Learned from the World Trade Center for Boston's Big Dig and Public Open Space Planning (Boston College Law School, Bos., Mass., 2004).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Why Does it Matter that Women and/or People of Color are Appointed to the Bench? Feminism and Legal Theory Project Workshop (Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y., 2003).
- Mary Clark, Presentation, Carter's Groundbreaking Appointment of Women to the Federal Bench (American Association of Law Schools Mid-Year Meeting, 2003).
