B.A., College of William and Mary, 1967; J.D., University of Virginia,
1977. Professor Scott practiced law briefly after graduating from law
school and then served as legal director of the Forensic Psychiatry
Clinic, Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University
of Virginia, 1979-87. She served as associate professor at the
University of Virginia, 1988-91; University Professor,...
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B.A., College of William and Mary, 1967; J.D., University of Virginia,
1977. Professor Scott practiced law briefly after graduating from law
school and then served as legal director of the Forensic Psychiatry
Clinic, Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University
of Virginia, 1979-87. She served as associate professor at the
University of Virginia, 1988-91; University Professor, 1992-2006;
and Class of 1962 professor of law, 2001-06. She visited at Columbia
Law School in 1987-88, 2001-02, 2003 and 2005, and joined
the Columbia faculty as the Harold R. Medina Professor of Law
in 2006. Professor Scott teaches family law, property, criminal law,
and children and the law. She has written extensively on marriage,
divorce, cohabitation, child custody, adolescent decision-making,
and juvenile delinquency. Her research is interdisciplinary, applying
behavioral economics, social science research, and developmental
theory to family/juvenile law and policy issues. She was the founder
and co-director of the University of Virginia’s interdisciplinary Center
for Children, Families and the Law. Currently, Professor Scott is
involved in empirical research on adolescents in the justice system
as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on
Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice. She is the co-author,
with Ira Ellman, Paul Kurtz, Lois Weithorn and Brian Bix, of Family
Law: Cases, Text, Problems (4th ed., 2004). She is also co-author, with
Samuel Davis, Walter Wadlington, and Charles Whitebread, of Children
in the Legal System (3rd ed., 2004).
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