Meghan Dawe is a sociologist whose research investigates law and society through the lens of legal education and the legal profession, and particularly how social and economic inequalities are reproduced through lawyers’ careers. As a postdoctoral fellow at The Baldy Center, Fall 2024, Dawe will draw on quantitative and qualitative data to analyze race and class-based differences in student loan borrowing and repayment, and how student debt shapes the careers of law school graduates;

Research topics include: how geography and markets shape lawyers’ professional opportunities, experiences, and rewards; the role of national context in shaping lawyers’ career aspirations in the United States and Canada; and the social structure and hierarchies of the American legal academy.

Dawe received her PhD from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining The Baldy Center, she was a Resident Research Fellow at Harvard Law School and a Research Social Scientist at the American Bar Foundation.