Before joining the faculty, Professor Spivack practiced civil litigation at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, a New York law firm. She received her B.A. from Princeton, her J.D. from New York University School of Law, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from Boston College. She clerked for the Honorable Robert G. Flanders, Jr. of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Professor Spivack teaches Family Law; Wills, Trusts, and Estates; Feminist Jurisprudence; and, Legal History.
Articles
Dower Is Not Enough: The Case of Lady Anne Clifford, New England Law Review (Forthcoming) (2011)
The article uses a seventeenth century Englishwoman’s legal battles for her property rights to intervene...
Let's Get Serious: Spousal Abuse Should Be a Complete Bar to Inheritance, 90 Oregon Law Review 247 (2011)
Essentially, the thesis of the article is that a spouse or intimate partner who is...