Saru Matambanadzo

Sub Title
Moise S. Steeg Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Sub Title 2
Emily Ratner and New Day II Professor of Social Entrepreneurship
Email
smatamba@tulane.edu
Phone
504-865-5811
School or College
School of Law
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Saru M. Matambanadzo the Moise S. Steeg, Jr. Associate Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and the Ratner Family and New Day II Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking. She teaches classes in employment law, gender law, law and sexuality, feminist legal theory, poverty law, and business formation.

Professor Matambanadzo received her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from University of California – Los Angeles, where she received numerous competitive grants including the UC President’s Dissertation Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Twin Pines Award, and the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. During her studies, she taught seminars not only at UCLA, but also at California State University, Long Beach and University of Oregon. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh summa cum laude in English Literature and Philosophy. She received the Helen Faison Scholarship for her undergraduate studies and a K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship for her post-baccalaureate studies in philosophy.

Saru M. Matambanadzo, Ph.D., joined the faculty of Tulane University School of Law in 2010. She is a nationally known authority on gender equality and workplace equity.. Professor Matambanadzo incorporates her diverse interdisciplinary research interests through law, policy, philosophy, vulnerability theory, and women’s studies, examining questions concerning the ways law and policies facilitate belonging and inclusion or lead to exclusion and marginalization. Her research also spans topics such as feminist legal theory, employment discrimination, animal rights, and food justice. Her publications include writing on legal pedagogy and critical theory, legal sex and trans identity, legal personhood in historical and contemporary contexts, and pregnancy discrimination against pregnant persons.

In her future research, Professor Matambanadzo will address the challenges mothers in the Gulf South Region face with employment discrimination, maternal health, and resource accessibility. She will also examine the complex problems related to food justice in the region, particularly in rural Mississippi. For this initiative, Professor. Matambanadzo and her husband David Noble are building a 32-acre farm in Foxworth, MS as a laboratory for grounding research in law and policy around food related issues. They intend to grow lavender and seasonal vegetables for market and to participate in the local agricultural community to understand and make innovative contributions to food justice.

In the past, Professor Matambanadzo has collaborated with Newcomb College Research Center on Women to produce a semi-annual report on gender parity for women in executive positions and board positions for publicly traded companies in Mississippi and Louisiana. She has been chair of the AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.  Professor Matambanadzo is also a member of the boards of LatCrit and ClassCrits, legal education corporations that focus on critical perspectives, employ intersectional methodologies in scholarship, teaching, and praxis, and promote the stories insights of marginalized persons through advocacy and scholarship.  In 2014-15, she was Tulane Law’s inaugural Gordon Gamm Faculty Scholar, an award to support the work of early-career professors.

First Name
Saru
Last Name
Matambanadzo
Moise S. Steeg Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Emily Ratner and New Day II Professor of Social Entrepreneurship
smatamba@tulane.edu
504-865-5811
Tulane Affiliation
Saru Matambandzo lecturing at a podium
Scholarly Works

Afterword: LatCrit Theory @ XX: Kindling the Programmatic Production of Critical and Outsider Legal Scholarship, 1996-2016, 10 Charleston L. Rev. 289 (2016). (with Frank Valdes and Sheila Veléz Martínez).

Reconstructing Pregnancy, 69 SMU L. Rev. 187 (Winter 2016).

Embodying Vulnerability: A Feminist Theory of the Person. Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Vol. 20, 2012, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-01. Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo

The Body, Incorporated. Tulane Law Review, Forthcoming, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-03. Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo

The Fourth Trimester. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 48, No. 1, p. 117, Fall 2014, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 14-6. Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo

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Education and Affiliations
BA, University of Pittsburgh
MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
JD, Harvard University
Saru Matambandzo lecturing at a podium
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Saru Matambandzo lecturing at a podium
Education and Affiliations
BA, University of Pittsburgh
MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
JD, Harvard University
Biography

Saru M. Matambanadzo the Moise S. Steeg, Jr. Associate Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and the Ratner Family and New Day II Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking. She teaches classes in employment law, gender law, law and sexuality, feminist legal theory, poverty law, and business formation.

Professor Matambanadzo received her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from University of California – Los Angeles, where she received numerous competitive grants including the UC President’s Dissertation Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Twin Pines Award, and the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. During her studies, she taught seminars not only at UCLA, but also at California State University, Long Beach and University of Oregon. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh summa cum laude in English Literature and Philosophy. She received the Helen Faison Scholarship for her undergraduate studies and a K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship for her post-baccalaureate studies in philosophy.

Saru M. Matambanadzo, Ph.D., joined the faculty of Tulane University School of Law in 2010. She is a nationally known authority on gender equality and workplace equity.. Professor Matambanadzo incorporates her diverse interdisciplinary research interests through law, policy, philosophy, vulnerability theory, and women’s studies, examining questions concerning the ways law and policies facilitate belonging and inclusion or lead to exclusion and marginalization. Her research also spans topics such as feminist legal theory, employment discrimination, animal rights, and food justice. Her publications include writing on legal pedagogy and critical theory, legal sex and trans identity, legal personhood in historical and contemporary contexts, and pregnancy discrimination against pregnant persons.

In her future research, Professor Matambanadzo will address the challenges mothers in the Gulf South Region face with employment discrimination, maternal health, and resource accessibility. She will also examine the complex problems related to food justice in the region, particularly in rural Mississippi. For this initiative, Professor. Matambanadzo and her husband David Noble are building a 32-acre farm in Foxworth, MS as a laboratory for grounding research in law and policy around food related issues. They intend to grow lavender and seasonal vegetables for market and to participate in the local agricultural community to understand and make innovative contributions to food justice.

In the past, Professor Matambanadzo has collaborated with Newcomb College Research Center on Women to produce a semi-annual report on gender parity for women in executive positions and board positions for publicly traded companies in Mississippi and Louisiana. She has been chair of the AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.  Professor Matambanadzo is also a member of the boards of LatCrit and ClassCrits, legal education corporations that focus on critical perspectives, employ intersectional methodologies in scholarship, teaching, and praxis, and promote the stories insights of marginalized persons through advocacy and scholarship.  In 2014-15, she was Tulane Law’s inaugural Gordon Gamm Faculty Scholar, an award to support the work of early-career professors.

Research

Gender Equality, Workplace Equity, Critical Legal Theory, Feminist Legal Theory, Legal Personhood

Scholarly Works

Afterword: LatCrit Theory @ XX: Kindling the Programmatic Production of Critical and Outsider Legal Scholarship, 1996-2016, 10 Charleston L. Rev. 289 (2016). (with Frank Valdes and Sheila Veléz Martínez).

Reconstructing Pregnancy, 69 SMU L. Rev. 187 (Winter 2016).

Embodying Vulnerability: A Feminist Theory of the Person. Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Vol. 20, 2012, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-01. Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo

The Body, Incorporated. Tulane Law Review, Forthcoming, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-03. Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo

The Fourth Trimester. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 48, No. 1, p. 117, Fall 2014, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 14-6. Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo

More

Tulane Tip

If Tulane is the DC universe, then the librarians are the Justice League and the libraries are their Halls of Justice. Librarians save our bacon all the time and they are superheroes. The Tulane Law Library is an amazing place to study, but did you know it also has a gender-neutral bathroom and crayons available to color during the stress of final examinations? Superheroes.