Jennifer B. Wriggins
Associate Dean for Research,
Sumner T. Bernstein Professor of Law
A.B., Yale University
J.D., Harvard University
Office Phone: (207) 780-4503
wriggins@usm.maine.edu
Professor Wriggins, the Sumner T. Bernstein Professor of Law, specializes in Torts, Insurance Law, and Family Law. Upon receiving her J.D., Professor Wriggins served as Clerk to Hon. Edward T. Gignoux, U.S. District Judge in Portland, Maine. She was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law in Spring 2005. Her book, "The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law" (NYU Press 2010, co-authored with Professor Martha Chamallas of Ohio State University) will be published in Spring 2010. She is the 2006 recipient of the USM Faculty Senate award for excellence in teaching. She was appointed Associate Dean for Research in May 2009. She has published articles in the areas of torts, insurance, and family law, with a focus on race and gender. In October 2008, her research was cited in James McMillen v. The City of New York which held that use of race-based life expectancy tables was unconstitutional. Her articles are frequently cited and excerpted in books. Prior to joining the faculty of Maine Law, she was a partner at Pressman, Kruskal & Wriggins in Cambridge, Massachusetts, served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, and was in private practice in Maine. She graduated magna cum laude with distinction in philosophy from Yale College and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. She is a member of the American Law Institute, and is Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Torts and Compensation Systems section.
View Associate Dean Wriggins's most recent curriculum vitae.
Recent Publications
- Is the Health Insurance Individual Mandate ‘Unprecedented’?: The Case of Auto Insurance, (February 25, 2012). [SSRN]
- Op-Ed., Individual Mandates are Nothing New: Auto Insurance Laws Show that Government is Capable of Creating Solutions to Collective Problems, such as Health Care, Portland Press Herald, March 18, 2012. [PPH]
- The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law (NYU Press 2010) with Professor Martha Chamallas. [Amazon.com]
- Damages In Tort Litigation: Thoughts on Race and Remedies, 1865-2007, 27 Review of Litigation 37 (2008) [PDF]
- Whiteness, Equal Treatment, and the Valuation of Injury in Torts, 1900-1949 (August 13, 2007). [SSRN]
- Torts, Race, and the Value of Injury, 1900-1949, 49 Howard Law Journal 99 (2005) [PDF]
- Toward A Feminist Revision of Torts, 13 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, & Law 139 (2005) [PDF]
- Domestic Violence in the First Year Torts Curriculum, 54 Journal of Legal Education 511 (2005) [PDF]
- Introduction to Symposium on Law, Labor and Gender, 55 Maine Law Review 1 (2003) [PDF]
- Interspousal Tort Immunity and Insurance "Family Member Exclusions": Shared Assumptions, Relational and Liberal Feminist Challenges, 17 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 251 (2002) [PDF]
- Domestic Violence Torts, 75 Southern California Law Review 121(2001) [PDF]
- Parental Rights Termination Jurisprudence: Questioning the Framework, 52 South Carolina Law Review 241 (2000) [PDF]
- Family Law and Marriage Law: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Couples of the Same Gender, 41 Boston College Law Review 265 (2000) [PDF]
- Genetics, IQ, Determinism, and Torts: The Example of Discovery in Lead Exposure Litigation, 77 Boston University Law Review 1025 (1998). [PDF]
- Rape, Racism, and the Law, 6 Harvard Women's Law Journal 103 (1983). [PDF]
