Sarah Abramowicz

• Biography

  Sarah Abramowicz is an associate professor of law at Wayne State University Law School. She has taught courses on family law, contracts, and law and literature. Her scholarship focuses on the history of child custody law and of adoption, and on the place of childhood in the troubled intersection between family law and other areas of law, especially contract law. Her work has appeared in the Fordham Law Review, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and University of Colorado Law Review and has been selected for the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and for the Columbia/Georgetown/UCLA/USC Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop.

  Abramowicz holds a doctorate in English literature from Columbia University. She earned her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she was Review & Essays Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar. After earning her law degree, she was awarded a fellowship in the Program on Careers in Law Teaching at Columbia Law School. She then served as a law clerk to the Hon. Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

• Degrees and Certifications

  Ph.D., Columbia University
  J.D., Columbia Law School
  B.A., Stanford University

• Courses Taught

  Family Law, Contracts, Adoption in Law and Literature

• Selected publications

  Bifurcating Settlements, 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 376 (2018) (with Michael Abramowicz)
  

  Nature, Nurture, Narrative, Law: Oliver Twist, the Wellesley Case, and the Victorian Anxiety About Parentage (Nineteenth-Century Literature); selected for 2013 Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop.

  Contractualizing Custody, 83 Fordham L. Rev. 67 (2014)

  Beyond Family Law, 63 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 293 (2012)
  
  A Family Law Perspective on Parental Incarceration, 50 Fam. Ct. Rev. 228 (2012)

  The Legal Regulation of Gay and Lesbian Families as Interstate Immigration Law, 65 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 11 (2012)
  
  Rethinking Parental Incarceration, 82 U. Colo. L. Rev. 793 (2011)
  
  Childhood and the Limits of Contract, 21 Yale J.L. & Human. 37 (2009)
  
  Note, English Child Custody Law, 1660-1839: The Origins of Judicial Intervention in Paternal Custody, 99 Colum. L. Rev. 1344 (1999)

• Social Science Research Network
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• Accomplishments
  • Sarah Abramowicz Sarah Abramowicz has been named Edward Wise Research Scholar (2024).
• Recent courses taught

  Winter Term 2025 (future)

  • LEX7301 - Family Law

  Fall Term 2024 (current)

  • LEX6200 - Contracts A

  Fall Term 2023

  • LEX6200 - Contracts A

  Winter Term 2023

  • LEX7301 - Family Law
  • LEX8248 - Law and Literature Seminar

  Fall Term 2022

  • LEX6200 - Contracts A

  Winter Term 2022

  • LEX7301 - Family Law
  • LEX8248 - Law and Literature Seminar