Education

• A.B. Harvard College
• J.D. Yale Law School

Biography

Jessica Tueller is a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School. Her research focuses on tensions between and among progressive ideologies and movements, especially in the areas of feminism and international law. She investigates the origins and extent of these tensions, and in so doing often develops new approaches that further intersectional and coalitional work on gender equality and human rights.

Before joining Tulane, Tueller worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Wesleyan University and as a clinical supervisor at the University Network for Human Rights. She also completed a Robina Fellowship at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, where she worked across the Rapporteurship on the Rights of LGBTI Persons and the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women.

Tueller earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism and a student director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in History and Literature.