Amy Wax
Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School
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- University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Biography
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Amy Wax’s work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy as well as the relationship of the family, the workplace, and labor markets.
By bringing to bear her training in biomedical sciences and appellate practice as well as her interest in economic analysis, Wax has developed a uniquely insightful approach to problems in her areas of expertise.
Wax has published widely in law journals, addressing liberal theory and welfare work requirements as well as the economics of federal disability laws. Current works in progress include articles on same-sex marriage, disparate impact theory and group demographics, rational choice and family structure, and the law and neuroscience of deprivation. Her most recent book is Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century (Hoover Institution Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
Wax has received the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course and the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. As an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wax argued 15 cases before the United States Supreme Court.
Videos
Amy Wax - Immigration and Less-Educated American Workers
Inconvenient Minority Podcast Season 2 Ep. 1: Analyzing Students for Fair Admissions with Amy Wax
Amy Wax, on the perilous quest for equal results in academia
"Whither the Looniversity?" - S2 E6 - Dr. Amy Wax, Robert Mundheim Prof. of Law, University of Penn.
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