Marianne Delpo Kulow

Marianne DelPo Kulow is a lawyer, law professor and the current Director of Bentley University's Women's Leadership Institute.  She began her career as a lawyer, serving as a litigation associate first with Bingham Dana (now Bingham McCutchen) and then with Peabody and Arnold.

Marianne has been a law professor at Bentley University since 1993 and has published on various aspects of discrimination law, ranging from religion to age to same sex sexual harassment, as well as on such diverse topics as same sex marriage laws, Sunday closing laws, liquor sales liability, and tobacco liability abroad.

She used a sabbatical leave to conduct international and domestic research on the topic of same sex marriages.  In addition to teaching business law, Marianne has developed and taught courses on Gender and the Law, Race and the Law, and "Outsiders" and the Law.

As the mother of two children under the age of eight, Marianne has spent the past decade conducting extensive field research on the topic of balancing pregnancy, parenting, and work outside the home-a topic on which she hopes to influence public policy.

Marianne earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University, her M.A. from the University of Liverpool, and her J.D. cum laude from Boston University School of Law.