Professor of Law
B.A. 1991, University of California, Berkeley; J.D. 1995, Stanford University Law School
Miranda Oshige McGowan teaches and writes in the areas of employment discrimination, constitutional law, race and gender identity, law and literature, and jurisprudence. Her current research includes an empirical analysis of Justice Scalia's methodology in statutory interpretation cases and an analysis of the nature of group identity and its relationship to protection from discrimination under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
McGowan received her B.A. degree in Political Science, magna cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, where she was awarded the departmental citation for graduating first in her department. She graduated with distinction from Stanford University Law School in 1995, where she was an articles editor for the Stanford Law Review. McGowan clerked for Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1995 to 1996. After her clerkship, she practiced employment discrimination law and complex litigation as an associate of the law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin until she joined the University of Minnesota Law School faculty in 1998.
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