Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, Nancy Levit

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Law Professors | Co-Authors

Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy. “A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce—why women’s progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back.”

The authors:

Naomi Cahn — Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, an expert in family law, trusts and estates, feminist jurisprudence, and reproductive technology. Her beat is gender equity in the workplace, with a particular emphasis on economic inequality and family roles. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and New Yorker.  

Nancy Levit is the associate dean for faculty and holds a curator’s professorship at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law. She teaches Defamation & Privacy, Employment Discrimination, Gender & Justice, Jurisprudence, and Torts, and serves as a faculty advisor to the UMKC Law Review. She is also a member of UMKC’s Women’s and Gender Studies faculty and has previously taught Criminal Law and Constitutional Law.

Professor June Carbone of the University of Minnesota Law School is an expert in family law, assisted reproduction, property law, and law, medicine, and bioethics. She has also taught contracts, remedies, financial institutions, civil procedure, and feminist jurisprudence. Throughout her career, she has focused on the intersections of law and economics, law and science, and law and society.

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July 26, 2026

VBB 385 Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, Nancy Levit: Why Women’s Equality Isn’t!

Naomi Kahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levitt are esteemed law professors and co-authors of Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy, which explains how women in the workforce are being shafted.