Christine A. Littleton

Biography

Christine A. Littleton
Professor of Law and Women's Studies
Chair, Women's Studies Programs
B.S. Pennsylvania State University, 1974
J.D. Harvard, 1982
UCLA Law faculty since 1983
littleton@law.ucla.edu

Christine Littleton regularly teaches courses on women and the law, sexual harassment and feminist legal theory in the Law School and the Women’s Studies Programs. She has also taught Contracts, Remedies, Employment Discrimination, Disability Rights and Sexual Orientation and Law. From 1993 to 1996, she served as Director of the undergraduate Women's Studies Program and since 1999 has chaired the expanded Women's Studies Programs, overseeing the undergraduate and graduate programs at UCLA.

Littleton was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the California Women's Law Center, and still participates as a volunteer attorney and consultant there. An active member of the California Bar since 1982, she has assisted numerous public interest organizations and attorneys in cases involving discrimination on the basis of sex, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and HIV status, and has received awards for public interest legal work and feminist education. Since moving to Orange County in 1997 she has replaced some of her pro bono legal work with volunteer work in other areas, including establishing a monitoring site for Monarch larva, and with memorizing freeway exits.

Before law school, Littleton enjoyed a series of brief and ill-paid careers as a high school teacher, legal secretary, and part-time actor. While in law school, she was a member of the Harvard Law Review and managing editor of the Harvard Women's Law Journal. She clerked for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Current research interests include equality theory in feminism, law and public discourse.

Review Essay, "Working Women: Thank You, You’re Unwelcome," 19 Berkeley Women’s L.J. 299-312 (2004)(reviewing Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, Catharine A. MacKinnon and Reva B. Siegel, eds. (Yale Univ. Press 2004)).