Bailey K Sanders

I am a visiting assistant professor at Duke Law. My research agenda is composed of two separate but complementary lines. My primary line of research is centered in antitrust law. I am interested in the ways in which market competition, and thus the antitrust laws, can promote or impede gender equality within society. My secondary line of research is focused on women’s representation in the courts and legislatures. Although market competition can and should be used to promote gender equality, institutional and cultural changes play an equally important role. 

My research has been published or Is forthcoming in The Michigan Law Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics (with Danielle Thomsen), the UCLA Journal Gender & Law, The Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal (with Jane Wettach), and the Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy. My dissertation, "Partisan Bridging and its Gendered Dimensions," was funded by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant.

I received my PhD in 2019 and my JD in 2021, both from Duke University. Following law school, I clerked on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Judge Gerald E. Tjoflat and then practiced in the McDermott, Will & Emery antitrust practice group in Washington D.C.

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