Serena Mayeri is Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History (by courtesy) at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she writes and teaches about equality law, family law, law and social movements, and legal history. Her first book, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2011), received prizes from the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. Her second book, Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law, was published by Yale University Press in 2025. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, most recently on the role of history in constitutional interpretation; reproductive rights and justice; and the weaponization of antidiscrimination law. She has co-authored amicus briefs in cases involving equal employment opportunity, reproductive rights, immigration and family law. At Penn, she has served on the executive committees of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program. Prior to coming to Penn, she was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at New York University School of Law and a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.