Catherine Dunham

B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J.D., Campbell University School of Law
L.L.M., University of Virginia School of Law

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Courses: Civil Procedure, Complex Civil Litigation, Evidence, Gender in the Law

Scholarly Expertise: Gender-based Employment Discrimination, Civil Procedure, Class Action Litigation, Evidence.

Professional Experience: Professor Catherine Ross Dunham serves as a member of Elon University School of Law's charter faculty and formerly served as the School of Law's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Professor Dunham is an expert in the law related to Civil Procedure and Civil Litigation, authoring articles on procedural doctrine and contributing to the annual Survey of Federal Class Action Law: A U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit-by-Circuit Analysis. Her scholarship also explores topics related to gender equity and implicit gender bias litigation, analyzing implicit bias-based claims specifically in the context of Title VII class action litigation.  

Professor Dunham’s articles on implicit bias have been published in the Akron Law Review, the DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law, and the University of Maryland Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class. Her scholarship on Evidence, specifically her article "Reputation Evidence in the Age of Instagram," was awarded the 2021 Edward D. Ohlbaum Paper in Advocacy by theTemple Law Review. She has served as a trial analyst for several major news outlets, including NBC and CNN, and is a prior recipient of the ABA Smyth-Gambrell Award for Teaching Professionalism.