Peggie Smith
Professor Of Law
peggie-smith@uiowa.edu
319-335-9032
411 Boyd Law Building

BA, Yale University, 1987
MA, Yale University, 1990
JD, Harvard Law School, 1993

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Professor Smith joined the law faculty in the fall of 2003. Prior to joining the Iowa faculty, she taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. Professor Smith received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University, and has started her Ph.D. work in American Studies. She is a 1993 graduate of Harvard Law School where she was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Women's Law Journal. Ms. Smith clerked for the Honorable Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1994-95, before returning to Harvard as a Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow in Law Teaching.

A former visiting fellow at Cornell's School of Industrial Labor Relations, Professor Smith presently teaches Contracts, Employment Relationships, and a seminar on Gender and Work. Her research focuses on the legal implications caused by the separation between race and gender, home and work, and work and family. Her scholarship on the legal treatment of private paid household workers, published in the University of North Carolina and Wisconsin law reviews, highlights the interlocking roles of race, gender, and class in the historical development of labor standards. Other articles have explored legal models that can help workers forge an acceptable balance between work responsibilities and family obligations. Professor Smith is currently working on projects relating to the trafficking of women, work-family accommodation theory, and the school desegregation case of Briggs v. Elliot.

During the summer of 2003, Professor Smith was a visiting professor at the University of Trento, Faculty of Jurisprudence, in Trento, Italy where she taught Comparative Employment Discrimination Law.