23 Facts About Amy Wax

Amy Laura Wax was born on January 19,1953 and is an American legal scholar and neurologist.

Amy Wax is a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Amy Wax has often made remarks about non-white people that have been described by some of her contemporaries and colleagues as white supremacist and racist.

Amy Wax was born on January 19,1953, in Troy, New York.

Amy Wax was raised with her two sisters in an observant, conservative Jewish family in Troy, where she attended public schools.

Amy Wax's father worked in the garment industry, and her mother was a teacher and a government administrator in Albany, New York.

Amy Wax attended Troy High School, where she was head of the school's senior honor roll.

Amy Wax graduated as class valedictorian and attained the highest score in Rensselaer County in the New York Regents Examinations.

Amy Wax received a Marshall Scholarship to attend Somerville College, Oxford.

Concurrently, Amy Wax was a first year student at Harvard Law from 1980 to 1981.

Amy Wax practiced medicine from 1982 to 1987, doing a residency in neurology at the 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.

Amy Wax completed her legal education at Columbia Law School, where she became an editor of the Columbia Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Amy Wax was admitted to the New York State bar in 1988.

Amy Wax then worked in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States from 1988 to 1994.

Amy Wax became an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1994, becoming a full professor in 1999.

In July 2001, Amy Wax became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, receiving the university's appointment as the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law in May 2007.

Amy Wax received both the A Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course, and the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.

Amy Wax's academic focus is on social welfare law and policy, and the relationship of the family, the workplace, and labor markets.

Amy Wax authored Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century.

An August 2017 petition seeking to fire Amy Wax gathered about 4,000 signatures.

That same month, 33 of her fellow Penn Law faculty members signed an open letter condemning statements Amy Wax made in her Philadelphia Inquirer piece and Daily Pennsylvanian interview.

Khalif said that he had notified the university that, if Amy Wax were not fired within a week, he would begin disrupting university classes and other activities with a series of protests.

In January 2025, Amy Wax filed a suit against the University of Pennsylvania in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, seeking to remove all punishments and damages for lost wages and harm to her reputation.