Overview

Professor Baker is an Aliber Family Chair in Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.  Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of women’s intimate lives and the law. She writes and teaches about marriage, intimacy outside of marriage and parentage in the 21^st century. She also writes about women’s sexual agency, the law of rape and sexual misconduct as sex discrimination. She has taught Family Law, Children and the Law, and Sex and Sexual Orientation Discrimination. She especially enjoys teaching Property and Contracts in the first-year curriculum. 

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Research areas

• Marriage
• Parentage
• Cohabitation
• Child Well-Being
• Sex Equality
• Sexual Assault

Teaching areas

• Family Law
• Children and the Law
• Contracts
• Property
• Sex Discrimination
• Sexual Orientation and the Law

Professional affiliations and memberships

• Member, American Law Institute