Biography

Ann C. McGinley — an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of employment, disability, and torts law — is a professor emerita of UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law, where she formerly served as co-director of the Workplace Law Program and a member of the Health Law Program.

For 25 years, she taught law courses on topics including torts and disability and employment discrimination, as well as seminars on employment and gender. She also is a leader in multidimensional masculinities theory, an emerging discipline that applies masculinities theory from social sciences to legal interpretation.  

McGinley has published dozens of law review articles and book chapters and is the author of many works, including Masculinity at Work: Employment Discrimination Through a Different Lens (NYU Press 2016) and Disability Law: Statutory Appendix: Federal Statutes and Regulations, Fifth Edition (LexisNexis) (with Laura Rothstein).

Additionally, she has lectured at many universities across the country, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Boston universities. She currently serves as a visiting foreign professor at universities in Chile, Italy, Spain, and Israel. In 2019, McGinley was appointed by Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford to the Nevada Governor’s Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination.