Law Professor at Florida State University Wins Book Award

Mary Ziegler, the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor in the College of Law at Florida State University, has been awarded the Thomas J. Miller Memorial Prize from the Board of Syndics of Harvard University Press. The award is given to a first time book author who is recognized for writing that is “outstanding in content, style, and mode of presentation.”

Professor Ziegler was honored for her book After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Harvard University Press, 2015). The book includes quotes from more than 100 oral history interviews.

Professor Ziegler joined the faculty at Florida State in 2013 after teaching for three years at the St. Louis University School of Law. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and earned her law degree at Harvard Law School. After law school she clerked for a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale Law School.