Role: Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Juvenile and Family Law Program, University of Colorado Law School
Boulder, Colorado

  Contact: Jennifer.Hendricks@Colorado.EDU

  Research Interests:
Constitutional Law | Sex and Equality in the Family | Reproduction and Parenting

Jennifer Hendricks joined the CU faculty in 2012, teaching family law and civil procedure. She previously taught at the University Of Tennessee College Of Law. Her research interests include sex equality and sex differences in parental rights, constitutional family law, and federal-state relations. 

Before teaching, Professor Hendricks practiced plaintiffs' trial and appellate litigation in Montana, where she specialized in constitutional, employment, and discrimination cases. In her practice, Professor Hendricks successfully challenged illegal voter-redistricting and vote-counting, helped high school girls win equal sports opportunities, won access to government documents for reporters and private citizens, and defended against defamation claims. She also represented victims of harassment and discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation. 

Professor Hendricks graduated with honors in mathematics and women's studies from Swarthmore College and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She clerked for the Hon. Karen Nelson Moore on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While in law school, she served as a research assistant for Professor Laurence Tribe and taught legal reasoning and analysis.