Amy L. Wax

Amy Laura Wax (born January 19, 1953) is an American legal scholar and neurologist. She is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy, as well as the relationship of the family, the workplace, and labor markets. She has often made remarks about non-white people that have been described as white supremacist and racist. Early life Wax was born and raised with her two sisters in a Jewish household in Troy, New York, where she attended public schools. Her father worked in the garment industry, and her mother was a teacher and a government administrator in Albany, New York. Education Wax attended and graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, summa cum laude, in 1975. She then attended Somerville College, Oxford, as a Marshall Scholar. She graduated in 1976 with a Master of Philosophy in physiology and psychology. She next attended both Harvard Medical School (M.D. 1981) and Harvard Law School (first year of law school, 1981). Wax practiced medicine from 1982 to 1987, doing a residency in neurology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and working as a consulting neurologist at a clinic in the Bronx and for a medical group in Brooklyn. She completed her legal education at Columbia Law School (J.D. 1987; Editor of the Columbia Law Review), working part-time to put herself through law school.