Chan Tov McNamarah is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell Law School. Their research examines the nature of discrimination, the purposes of its legal regulation, and how constitutional and criminal law both shape—and are shaped by—the dynamics of identity and status-based inequality.

Through theoretical and doctrinal analysis, Chan Tov’s current projects update equal protection to address the shape, speed, and spread of modern discrimination, and investigate how historic criminal regulation authored the status hierarchies that equality law now seeks to dismantle. Their prior writing on the structure of legal arguments against the equal citizenship of gender and sexual minorities has twice been honored by the Dukeminier Awards, and is published in Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Cornell Law Review.

Previously, Chan Tov practiced in New York and São Paulo, focusing on white-collar defense and government investigations.

For more information about their work, a current CV is available here, and their Research Agenda is available here.