Christen Hammock Jones

Christen Hammock Jones is a third-year PhD student studying American Legal History with a focus on reproductive rights and health in the United States throughout the twentieth century. Her dissertation examines the politics of abortion rights litigation between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. 

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.