Carlin Meyer (born September 7, 1948) is an American law professor, feminist, and expert on issues of sex, sexuality, family and gender.
Meyer states that, “our early talk was about how women always ended up with purple hands from running the mimeo machines rather than serving as leading speakers or scholars…from there it was a short hop to the role of law in promoting male dominance.”[3] Meyer was a member of the Harvard section of the left-wing organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
She was a founding member of SDS's November Action Coalition (NAC) and also participated in, and helped to organize, the occupation of Harvard's University Hall in April 1969.
Following graduation, she participated in the building of Arcosanti, an experimental town in central Arizona spearheaded by the well-known Italian architect, Paolo Soleri, who sought to minimize the effect of urbanization on the natural environment.
As part of her clinic work, she wrote an appellate brief to help halt U.S. intervention in the Cambodian Civil War.
She received her LLM from Yale in 1988, at which point Meyer joined the New York Law School faculty as a professor.
[20] In addition, she served as the executive director of the Diane Abbey Law Institute for Children and Families at NYLS.