Laura E. Gómez is Professor of Law and American Studies at the University of New Mexico and was previously Professor of Law and Sociology at UCLA. She received her A.B. from Harvard and her J.D. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford, working under Lawrence Friedman, and then clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Gómez has served as LSA Treasurer (2001-2003) and Trustee (Class of 1999) and multiple times as a member of the Program, Graduate Student Workshop and Diversity Committees (she chaired the latter two). She worked on LSA's minority fellowship project (with Lauren Edelman, Felice Levine and Lynn Mather) and currently serves on the selection committee for the NSF-funded LSA/ABF fellowship. Editor Carroll Seron appointed Gómez an Associate Editor of the Law & Society Review, and she has been a reviewer for several other journals in legal studies, gender studies, legal history and sociology. Her scholarship has focused on the intersection of law, politics and inequality in both contemporary and historical contexts. Gómez has published numerous articles and chapters, as well as two books: Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure (1997) and Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (2007). Gómez has been active in the ASA Sociology of Law Section, the AALS Minority Section, the Critical Race Theory Workshops and LatCrit, however, since first going to the 1990 annual meeting as a graduate student, she has considered LSA her intellectual home.