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E-Mail:
kerryabrams@virginia.edu


Phone:
(434) 924-7361

Office: WB388

Secretary/Assistant:
Pamela Messina


    Kerry Abrams

    Associate Professor of Law
    Co-Director, Center for Children, Families and the Law

    J.D., Stanford Law School, 1998
    B.A., Swarthmore College, 1993

    Kerry Abrams joined the faculty in 2005 as an associate professor of law. She teaches courses on family law, immigration law and feminist legal theory. She also co-directs the Center for Children, Families, and the Law, a joint project with the UVA Department of Psychology. Abrams’ current scholarship focuses on the intersection of immigration and family law, with an emphasis on how immigration law shapes and regulates marriage.

    Abrams clerked in New Orleans for Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and practiced law for several years at the New York City law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP. From 2002-05, she was an acting assistant professor of lawyering at New York University School of Law.

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