She is the author of the recent New York Times best-selling book LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes (2025). In 2023, the American Law Institute named Litman a recipient of its Early Career Scholars Medal, which is awarded every other year to “two outstanding early-career law professors whose work is relevant to public policy and has the potential to influence improvements in the law.” Also in 2023, the American Constitution Society recognized Litman with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar Award, a yearly award given to an outstanding scholar in the early stages of an academic career who has demonstrated “scholarly excellence, the ability to imagine how society might be more just and more equal,” as well as other qualities exemplified by Justice Ginsburg. Her scholarship has also been recognized twice with the Richard D. Cudahy award for scholarship on regulatory and administrative law (once in 2023 and also in 2026).
Litman’s recent work has appeared or will appear in the University of Chicago Law Review, California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Northwestern Law Review, among other journals. Her writing for popular audiences has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and Slate.
Following her clerkships, she worked at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where she specialized in appellate litigation. Litman previously was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where she received one of its inaugural Student Government Teaching and Advising Awards, and an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where she received the Professor of the Year Award in 2019. In 2021, Michigan Law students awarded her the L. Hart Wright Teaching Award.
Litman maintains an active pro bono practice. Working as a cooperating attorney with the ACLU of Michigan, she argued and won a case in the Michigan Supreme Court holding that the state’s civil rights laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
