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Professor Chapin Cimino Cody 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


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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