Tracy A. Thomas is Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Research and Development at The University of Akron School of Law. Her research focuses in part on the field of remedies, concentrating on issues of equity and the remedial jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. She has recently joined as co-editor of West’s Remedies: Public and Private. A second area of Professor Thomas’ research is concentrated in legal history where she has explored issues of gender in the context of the family. She is currently at work on a book on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law under contract with New York University Press.
Articles
eBay Rx, Akron Intellectual Property Journal (2008)
From a remedial perspective, the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in eBay Inc. v....
Proportionality and the Supreme Court's Jurisprudence of Remedies, Hastings Law Journal (2007)
The evolution of the Supreme Court’s remedial jurisprudence evinces a quest for the ultimate judicial...
The Continued Vitality of Prophylactic Relief, Review of Litigation (Texas) (2007)
The categorization of a separate type of “prophylactic” injunction and its continued prevalence in the...
Restriction of Tort Remedies and the Constraints of Due Process: The Right to an Adequate Remedy, Symposium, Akron Law Review (2006)
In the recent proliferation of tort reform statutes, the dangerous clause of remedial jurisdiction stripping...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the Federal Marriage Amendment: A Letter to the President, Constitutional Commentary (2006)
This essay written from a historical, first-person perspective explores the parallels between the current movement...
Books
Contributions to Books
Bush v. Gore and the Distortion of Common Law Remedies, The Final Arbiter:The Consequences of Bush v. Gore for Law and Politics (2005)
The book The Final Arbiter addresses the legal and political consequences of the Bush v....
Other Works
Sex v. Race, Again, Slip Opinions, Washington University Law Review (2008)
The struggle between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama to make history as either the first...
Book Review, Sharon Hatfield, Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell, Law and History Review (2006)
In Never Seen the Moon, journalist Sharon Hatfield chronicles the story of school teacher Edith...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006)
This entry for the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties traces the civil rights work of...
The Beecher Sisters as Nineteenth-Century Feminist Icons of the Sameness-Difference Debate, Cardozo Women's Law Journal (2004)
This essay reviews the recent book, The Beecher Sisters by Barbara White, through the lens...
Works in Progress
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law (under contract with NYU Press) (2010)
The book entitled Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law is a...