| Summary: | Law professor and social justice advocate Dorothy E. Roberts was born in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1977, she earned her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Yale College. In 1980, she received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. From 1981 to 1988, Roberts worked as a law associate in the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. until she became Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. In 1998, Roberts joined the faculty of Northwestern School of Law. Four years later, she was named the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at the Northwestern University School of Law. Recipient of the 1998 Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal and the 2007 Leadership Award from the Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers, she authored many articles and books including Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare.
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