Linda McClain

McClain started teaching at Boston University School of Law in 2007. She also teaches in the Boston University College of Arts & Sciences in the Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program. She is a member of the American Law Institute, where she works in the Members Consultative Group for the Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law. She is also involved in the Council on Contemporary Families, the American Political Science Association, and the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

McClain studied religion and government at Oberlin College and continued her education at the University of Chicago Divinity School, graduating with a master's degree in religious studies. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an editor for The Georgetown Law Journal. Upon graduation, McClain worked as an attorney in the litigation department at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and earned her LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 1991. That year, she began her academic career at Hofstra Law School, where she was appointedthe Rivkin Radler Distinguished Professor of Law and the co-director of the Institute for the Study of Gender, Law, and Policy. McClain married James E. Fleming in 1992.