Erika Bachiochi

Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar who works at the intersection of constitutional law, political theory, women’s history, and Catholic social teaching, She teaches courses in the history of women in political thought and directs the Mercy Otis Warren Initiative for Women in Civic Life and Thought, serving as editor-in-chief of its online journal, Fairer Disputations.

A 2018 visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, she is also a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington D.C. and a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA and founded its Wollstonecraft Project. Her latest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021. 

Ms. Bachiochi’s essays have appeared in publications such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Christian Bioethics, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Politico, First Things, American Compass, CNN.com, The New Digest, National Review Online, National Affairs, Claremont Review of Books, SCOTUSblog, and Public Discourse.

Ms. Bachiochi serves on the Advisory Boards/Councils of the Moral Ecology Trust at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at UVA; the Center for the Law and the Human Person at CUA; the American Institute for Boys and Men; the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum; Natural Womanhood; and St. Thomas More Academy (South Bend). She is a co-founder of St. Benedict Classical Academy and serves on the Board of Trustees at Montrose School.