Laura Savarese is an Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law. She is a legal historian who studies the evolving substantive law, procedures, and institutions that shape families’ relationships to the state.

Prior to joining the Law College faculty, Professor Savarese was a Golieb Fellow at NYU School of Law. She received her B.A. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Yale Law School, and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Yale Department of History. She also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Rowan D. Wilson of the New York Court of Appeals, and was a summer associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York.

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Ph.D., Yale University (expected 2024)
J.D., Yale Law School
MSt, University of Oxford
A.B., Harvard College