Christen Hammock Jones

Christen Hammock Jones is a first-year PhD student studying American Legal History with a focus on reproductive rights and health in the United States throughout the twentieth century. 

Christen is barred as an attorney in New York and has practiced as a litigator at a large international law firm and on the Reproductive Rights & Health team at the National Women’s Law Center. She obtained her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2020 and a dual Bachelor/Master of Arts in English from the University of Georgia in 2014. Before law school, Christen worked in D.C. as a fellow at the American Constitution Society and a litigation paralegal at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. At Columbia, Christen was the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law and winner of the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court competition. 

Christen is broadly interested in anything that involves bodies and boundaries, including abortion, capital punishment, the doctor-patient relationship, justiciability doctrines, risk, expertise and legitimacy, and intrauterine devices. Her current projects include analyzing intersections between the third-wave consumer rights movement and the abortion rights movement, the history of standing doctrine in reproductive rights law, and a book-length project on lawsuits that push the limits of legal procedure.