Lea VanderVelde is the Josephine R. Witte Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. She writes in the fields of employment law, property law, 19th century legal history, and constitutional law.
Lea Vandervelde's journal scholarship can be found at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=38086
Her books include: Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier, Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott, Analyzing Textual Data: From Words to Numbers to Meaning (forthcoming 2021), and several casebooks.