Tracy A. Thomas is the Aileen McMurray Trusler Professor of Law at Akron Law. She served as Director of Faculty Research from 2007 to 2009. Her research focuses on legal history and gender, equity, and remedial jurisprudence. She is a co-editor of West’s Remedies: Public and Private. Professor Thomas is currently at work on a monograph entitled Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law under contract with New York University Press.
Books
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law (under contract with NYU Press) (2012)
The book entitled Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law is a...
Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law (with TJ Boisseau) (2011)
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists...
Women and the Law (2011)
A 2010 report on women in the United States recognized that women have come a...
Remedies: Public and Private (5th ed. 2009) (with David I. Levine & David J. Jung) (and Teacher's Manual), West (2009)
Contributions to Books
The Struggle for Gender Equity in the Northern District of Ohio, A History of the Northern District of Ohio (2012)
The Northern District of Ohio, like many of its sister courts, was reluctantly drawn into...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Notion of a Legal Class of Gender, Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law (2011)
In the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used narratives of women and their involvement with...
Law, History, and Feminism, Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law (2011)
This is the introduction to the book, Feminist Legal History. This edited collection offers new...
Sex v. Race, Again, Who Should be First? Feminists Debate the 2008 Presidential Campaign (2010)
In this book, feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 presidential campaign....
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....
Articles
Teaching Remedies as Problem-Solving: Keeping it Real, Saint Louis University Law Journal (2013)
I began teaching Remedies as a problem-solving course over a decade ago. I was then...
Misappropriating Women's History in the Law and Politics of Abortion, Seattle Law Review (2012)
“Without known exception, the early American feminists condemned abortion in the strongest possible terms.” This...
Bailouts, Bonuses, and the Return of Unjust Gain, Comments, Washington U. L. Review (2009)
In March 2009, ailing insurance giant triggered a national outcry when it paid out $165...
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...
Other Works
Sex v. Race, Again, Slip Opinions, Wash. U. L.Rev (June 2008) (2008)
The struggle between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama to make history as either the first...
The New Face of Women's Legal History: An Introduction to the Symposium, Akron Law Review (2008)
Women’s legal history is developing as a new and exciting field that provides alternative perspectives...
Women's Suffrage, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus ed., 2008). (2008)
The battle for women’s right to vote raged for almost seventy-five years before culminating in...
Question & Answers: Remedies, Lexis (2007)
A student study aid consisting of 200 multiple choice questions in remedies.
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...
Works in Progress
Back to the Future of Abortion Regulation in the First Term, ExpressO (2013)
Abortion and women's reproductive rights have reemerged as front-page news. As popular culture grapples with...