Meghan Dawe
Biography
Meghan Dawe is a Research Associate at the Global Justice Lab of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Previously, she was a Resident Research Fellow at the Center on the Legal Profession and a sociologist whose research analyzes the relationship between law and inequality through the lens of the legal profession and lawyers’ careers.
Meghan has an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the Center on the Legal Profession and a sociologist, she was a Research Social Scientist at the American Bar Foundation. She was involved with several ABF research projects on the legal profession and co-authored The Making of Lawyer Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession with Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Bryant Garth, Joyce S. Sterling, David B. Wilkins, and Ethan Michelson (under contract with University of Chicago Press). Meghan is Project Manager for the ABF’s After the JD study of lawyer careers.
Select publications
- Nelson, Robert L., Ioana Sendroiu, Ronit Dinovitzer and Meghan Dawe. 2019. “Perceiving Discrimination in the Legal Workplace.” Law & Social Inquiry 44(4): 1051-82.
- Dawe, Meghan and Ronit Dinovitzer. 2016. “Immigrant Offspring in the Legal Profession: Exploring the Effects of Immigrant Status on Earnings among American Lawyers.” In Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender and Class in Legal and Professional Careers, Spencer Headworth, Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer and David B. Wilkins (eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Dinovitzer, Ronit and Meghan Dawe. 2020. “Canada: Continuity and Change in a Modern Legal Profession.” Chapter in Lawyers in 21st Century Societies: National Reports, Richard Abel, Hilary Sommerlad, Ulrich Schultz and Ole Hammerslav, (eds.). Hart Publishing.
- Dinovitzer, Ronit and Meghan Dawe. “Early Legal Careers in Comparative Context: Evidence from Canada and the United States.” International Journal of the Legal Profession 23(1): 83-107.
- Ryan, CJ and Meghan Dawe. 2021. “Mind the Gap: Gendered Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy.” Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 34(3): 567-612.