Mary Ziegler is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California Davis School of Law and a legal historian of struggles over reproductive health in the United States from 1945 to the present. She is a 2023 Guggenheim fellow and one of the world’s leading historians of the U.S. abortion debate.

Ziegler is also the author of six books on the history of social movement mobilizations around reproduction, including "After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate," which won the Harvard University Press Thomas J. Wilson Prize, and "Roe: The History of a National Obsession." Additionally, she is the editor of a major international collection with Elgar Press about abortion law around the world.

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Ziegler was a professor at Florida State University College of Law and was the Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School before coming to UC Davis. She is a contributor to media outlets such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, "PBS Newshour," CNN, and the Washington Post.

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