Carlin Meyer was born on September 7,1948, in Chicago, Illinois.
13 Facts About Carlin Meyer
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Carlin Meyer went on to attend Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Carlin Meyer joined a feminist group called Bread and Roses.
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Carlin Meyer was a member of the Harvard section of the left-wing organization Students for a Democratic Society.
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Carlin Meyer was a founding member of SDS's November Action Coalition and participated in, and helped to organize, the occupation of Harvard's University Hall in April 1969.
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Carlin Meyer protested, among other things, Harvard's support of US involvement in the Vietnam War, the presence of Reserve Officers' Training Corps on campus, and Harvard's institutional racism.
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From 1977 to 1981, Carlin Meyer worked as assistant general counsel to District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest trade union for public employees in the United States.
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Carlin Meyer served as the President of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
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Carlin Meyer went on to study at Yale University, after having been inspired by a night course in American legal history taught by the legal historian and law professor, Morton Horwitz.
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Carlin Meyer received her LLM from Yale in 1988, at which point Meyer joined the New York Law School faculty as a professor.
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At NYLS, Carlin Meyer went on to teach courses on labor and employment law, feminist jurisprudence, family law, legal ethics, evidence, and lawyering.
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Carlin Meyer currently serves on the board of directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union and as part-time counsel for the New York State Assembly Committee on Ethics and Guidance.
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Carlin Meyer is a member of the Society of American Law Teachers, the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and the Law and Society Association.