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Area of FocusAbout Sylvia's Work
Sylvia Law teaches, writes, and litigates on issues of women’s rights, health care, and poverty.
As a practicing attorney, Law has represented welfare recipients and has helped challenge laws restricting women’s access to abortion. She has played a major role in dozens of civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and in lower state and federal courts, and has testified before Congress and state legislatures on a range of issues involving health law, women's rights, poverty, and constitutional law. She has written on feminist legal theory, health-care delivery, and legal education. Her books include Blue Cross: What Went Wrong? (1973), Pain and Profit: The Politics of Malpractice (1979), and American Health Law (1990).
Biography
Law has taught at the New York University Law School since 1973, and in 1994, became the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry. She is also co-director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at NYU. She is an active member of the boards of the Center for Reproductive Rights and of Compassion and Choices, a group committed to improving palliative care and choice for terminally ill people.
Law received a B.A. (1964) from Antioch College and a J.D. (1968) from the New York University Law School.
Last updated January 1, 2005.
Published on August 1, 1983
