Bailey K Sanders

Bailey K. Sanders is a legal scholar whose work examines how market competition can advance gender equality and the critical role of women’s representation in law and politics. Her research bridges antitrust, constitutional law, and gender equity, and has appeared or is forthcoming in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including The Michigan Law Review, The Columbia Journal of Gender & Law, and The Journal of Law & Courts. She is also co-author of The Fundamental Voter: American Electoral Democracy, 1952–2020 (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Bailey received her JD and PhD in Political Science from Duke University. She clerked for Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and practiced in the antitrust group at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, D.C., advising clients in the healthcare, PBM, and construction materials sectors on merger review, investigations, and complex litigation. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke Law School, where she teaches and writes in the areas of antitrust, consumer protection, business associations, and morally contested markets.

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