Christine A. Littleton

Biography

Christine A. Littleton
Professor of Law and Women's Studies
Chair, Department of Women's Studies
B.S. Pennsylvania State University, 1974
J.D. Harvard, 1982
UCLA Law faculty since 1983; Women's Studies faculty since 2008
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 in Women’s Studies. She has also taught courses in contracts, remedies, employment discrimination, disability rights and sexual orientation law, and helped develop the Law School’s policies and practices on reasonable accommodation for students with disabilities. From 1993 to 1996, she served as Director of the undergraduate Women's Studies Program; in 1999 she returned to oversee both graduate and graduate programs in women’s studies; and in 2008 became the inaugural chair of the new Department of Women’s Studies in the Division of Social Sciences. She currently holds a split appointment in both the School of Law and the Department of Women’s Studies.

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. She has served on the editorial board of the feminist academic journal Signs and is currently a regional co-editor for the Women’s Studies International Forum.

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 sex discrimination, equality theory and feminism.