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Sylvia A. Law is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry and the co-director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at New York University School of Law.
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Sylvia A. Law is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry and the co-director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at New York University School of Law.
Law was born in Minnesota in 1942 and attended public schools in Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana. She earned her B.A. (1964) from Antioch College, and her J.D. (1968) from New York University School of Law.
In 1984, Law became the first lawyer in the United States selected as a MacArthur Prize Fellow. She has been active in the Society of American Law Teachers, served as president of the organization from 1988 to 1990. In 2004, Prof. Law was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, the Sylvia A. Law Fellowship in Economic Justice was created as part of the Hays Civil Liberties Program at NYU Law School.
She lives in New York City, Woodstock, New York and Kailua, Hawaii. Her son, Benjamin Ensminger-Law was born in 1977 and is a banker in New York City.
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