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Carol Sanger
Born
Nuremberg, Germany

(1948-12-30) December 30, 1948 (age 75)
PartnerJeremy Waldron
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineFamily law
Institutions

Carol Sanger (born December 30, 1948)[1] is an American legal scholar specializing in reproductive rights. She is Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.[2] She is not related to either reproductive rights activist Alexander C. Sanger or his grandmother, the pioneering birth control activist Margaret Sanger.[3]

Biography

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Sanger was born on December 30, 1948, in Nuremberg, Germany.[1] She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her J.D. (Juris Doctor) degree from the University of Michigan. She began her career as a lawyer in private practice before teaching at the University of Oregon Law School and then at Santa Clara University.[4]

Sanger joined the faculty of Columbia Law School in 1996. She teaches and writes about contracts, family law, and abortion law in the United States.[2][5]

She was named an honorary fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford for her “world-renowned scholarship in the common law of contract, women’s rights, and research in human rights law.”[6] She was also a fellow at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.[7]

Sanger delivered the 2018 Annual Distinguished Lecture for Boston University School of Law.[8] She was honored by the academic journal The Green Bag for "exemplary legal writing" in 2013 for her article The Birth of Death: Stillborn Birth Certificates and the Problem for Law, which first appeared on the California Law Review.[9][10]

Personal life

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Sanger's partner is former Columbia Law and currently New York University School of Law professor Jeremy Waldron.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Carol Sanger" (PDF). Columbia Law School. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Carol Sanger". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  3. ^ "A Dialogue On Abortion in the US", Women Across Frontiers Magazine, July 2017.
  4. ^ "Carol Sanger". Santa Clara Law. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  5. ^ Smith, Jordan (May 9, 2017). "Women Should Not Be Ashamed to Talk About Abortion: A Conversation with Author Carol Sanger". The Intercept. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  6. ^ "Carol Sanger Elected Honorary Fellow by the University of Oxford's Mansfield College". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  7. ^ "Carol Sanger | Program in Law and Public Affairs | Princeton University". lapa.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  8. ^ "On the Reproductive Beat with Columbia Law Professor Carol Sanger | School of Law". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  9. ^ "Columbia Law School Professor Carol Sanger Honored for Scholarship". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  10. ^ "The Birth of Death: Stillborn Birth Certificates and the Problem for Law". California Law Review. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  11. ^ Reibstein, Larry. "Introducing Jeremy Waldron | NYU Law Magazine". Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  12. ^ "N.Y.U. 's Big Raid: Scoring Waldron From Columbia Law". Observer. 2006-03-13. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
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