About

Chan Tov McNamarah is a scholar of antidiscrimination theory and constitutional law. Their research examines the nature of discrimination, the purposes of its legal regulation, and the structure of legal arguments used to justify status-based inequality.

McNamarah’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Emory Law Journal, among other venues. Their research has been selected for presentation at the Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, the Equality Law Scholars Forum, and has twice been honored by the Dukeminier Awards for best legal scholarship on gender and sexual orientation.

Before entering academia, McNamarah worked as a litigation associate in the New York and Sao Paulo offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, focusing on white collar defense and government investigations. McNamarah was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell Law School immediately prior to joining the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Law, where they teach courses on Constitutional Law and Gender and Sexual Minorities and the Law.

Antidiscrimination Theory
Constitutional Law

Cis-Woman-Protective Arguments, 123 Colum. L. Rev. 845 (2023)

Misgendering, 109 Cal. L. Rev. 2227 (2021)