Marcia McCormick

About me

I am currently a Professor of Law with a secondary appointment as a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Saint Louis University. I am also the Director of the William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law there. I have also visited at the University of Iowa School of Law.

My courses focus on employment and labor law, criminal law, constitutional law, and sexuality and gender. My research is in these areas, as well, with emphases on discrimination, gender and sexuality, and constitutional issues. My work has been published in a variety of law journals, including the Berkeley Journal of Labor & Employment Law, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Indiana Law Review, and others. I have contributed to several books and co-author a leading casebook on Employment Discrimination Law and a leading treatise and hornbook on Employment Law. I frequently speak to members of the media for legal analysis of civil rights issues and engage in pro bono work. I have received awards for my scholarship, teaching, and service, and in recognition of this work, am a member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Foundation. I am also a member of Saint Louis University’s Research Institute.

I earned a B.A. from Grinnell College and graduated with honors from the University of Iowa School of Law. My legal career began as a staff attorney with the International Human Rights Law Institute, working as the primary legal analyst of the use sexual violence in the war in the former Yugoslavia. I then joined the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, where I litigated civil appeals in state and federal courts. From there, I joined the faculty at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology and then moved on to Cumberland Law School at Samford University before coming to SLU LAW.