Professor Hobday has been teaching at Hamline University since 2006 in the areas of legal research and writing, constitutional law, and employment law. Her research focus, broadly described, considers how law shapes public policy with a particular interest in how our laws must address the needs of underrepresented populations. She has used different lenses-- criminal justice and feminist theory, accessibility, educational policy, and tort reform-- to evaluate our laws, but all with a similar underlying inquiry. Professor Hobday's recent work has focused primarily on domestic violence, with particular emphasis on what employers and universities can or should do to address the violence their employees or students may be experiencing.

Before coming to Hamline, Professor Hobday clerked for the Honorable Gerald W. Heaney on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law for several years in a mid-sized Minneapolis law firm, representing individuals and businesses in commercial litigation, including employment-law matters, shareholder disputes, and trademark infringement. She holds a BA in Program of Liberal Studies (Classical Literature) and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame and a JD from the University of Minnesota.