Catharine MacKinnon, born in 1946, is an American jurist and legal scholar who is a founding figure of feminist legal theory. Her scholarship and litigation work in the 1970s and 1980s were instrumental in establishing sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination actionable under United States law, a theory the Supreme Court adopted in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986). A long-serving professor at the University of Michigan Law School, she has also written extensively on pornography, international human rights and the legal theory of sex equality.
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RoleLegal scholar; professor, University of Michigan Law School 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Cross-Tradition Connections
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MacKinnon argued that workplace "sexual harassment" is sex discrimination. As cocounsel in the first sexual harassment case heard by the Supreme Court, her argument was unanimously affirmed.
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