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| Mariann Meier Wang Partner Mariann
Meier Wang joined the firm in 2003. Her practice focuses on civil
rights, including First Amendment, prisoners’ rights, police
misconduct, and employment discrimination matters, and on commercial
litigation, including contract and tort disputes. Ms. Wang joined the
firm after practicing civil and human rights law and commercial
litigation for six years, and clerking for the Hon. Sterling Johnson,
Jr. in the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Wang previously worked at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, where she litigated federal and state constitutional challenges to laws restricting reproductive rights. At the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison she did commercial work such as trademark, contract, and employment litigation, and undertook pro bono work on a variety of cases, including by representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth in New York's child welfare system for discriminatory treatment and harassment. Ms. Wang also worked for two years at Interights, an international human rights group based in London, where she directed the strategic programs on equality/anti-discrimination and free expression, litigating and advising on cases involving human rights abuses in international and domestic courts. Ms. Wang worked as an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the Urban Justice Center, Harlem Legal Services, and the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit. Education Columbia
University, J.D., 1996, James Kent Scholar, Jane Marks Murphy Prize
(for excellence in clinical offerings and promise of a public interest
career), Human Rights Law Review Harvard University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1990, John Harvard and Elizabeth Agassiz Scholarships (for “academic work of highest distinction”) Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court; Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; U.S.
District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. District
Court, District of Colorado; New York
Memberships Association of the Bar of the City of New York; National Lawyers Guild; Asian American Bar Association of New York Selected Publications “The European Convention on Human Rights and Media Law” in Yearbook of Copyright & Media Law (Oxford University Press, 2002) (with Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC) “Elements of Effective Anti-Discrimination Law” in Interights Bulletin, Vol. 13, no. 4 (2001): Racism and Related Intolerance (co-editor) “The International Tribunal for Rwanda: Opportunities for Clarification, Opportunities for Impact,” 27 Columbia Human Rights Law Review (1995) |  |
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