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Chapin
Cimino Cody
Associate Professor of Law
Email: Chapin.C.Cody@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4703
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 321
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Education
J.D., with honors, University of Chicago Law School,
B.A., magna cum laude, Denison University
Chapin Cody’s chief interests are in contracts, affirmative
action and Constitutional law, higher education law and law and
humanities.
Professor Cody received her J.D. with honors from the University
of Chicago Law School, where she staffed the Law Review.
She previously taught at Villanova University School of Law.
She has also taught courses in the Government and Politics Department
of Widener University.
After clerking for Judge Edmund V. Ludwig of the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, she became a
commercial litigation associate for Pepper Hamilton LLP. There,
she handled contracts, higher education, white collar defense
and antitrust cases, including a stint as lead associate in a
multi-million dollar antitrust prosecution that resulted in a
victory for the plaintiff.
As a summer associate with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, she
drafted an amicus curiae brief in a voting rights and equal protection
case filed in the United States Supreme Court.
Professor Cody’s scholarship focuses on affirmative action
and the role of role of sincerity and subterfuge in the law.
Her publications have included “Considering Standing, Sincerity
and Antidiscrimination,” in the Brigham Young University
Law Review, and “Class-Based Preferences in Affirmative
Action Programs After Miller v. Johnson: A Race-Neutral Option
or Subterfuge?” in the University of Chicago Law Review.
She has served on the board of directors for New Directions
for Women in Philadelphia.
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