Margaret Brinig

Contact Information

Margaret Brinig
Fritz Duda Family Professor of Law
Box 780
Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-2303

Degrees

B.A., Duke University
J.D., Seton Hall University
M.A., Ph.D. George Mason

Honors/awards

Distinguished University Professor, George Mason University, 1993
Elected to the American Law Institute

Educational research interests

Law and economics of the family; Empirical work

Current educational studies

Catholic School Closings and Neighborhood Life (with Nicole Garnett)

Select publications

Supporting the Covenant: Family and Community (forthcoming, University of
Chicago Press, 2009)

From Contract to Covenant: Beyond the Law and Economics of the Family
(Harvard University Press, 2000)

Bio

Margaret F. Brinig, B.A. Duke University, J.D. Seton Hall University,
M.A., Ph.D. George Mason University is the Fritz Duda Family Professor of
Law at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in family law,
contracts and dispute resolution, and is known internationally for her work
on the law and economics of the family. She has written or coauthored a
number of books and more than 80 articles, including From Contract to
Covenant: Beyond the Law and Economics of the Family and the new two volume
collection The Economics of Family Law. Her forthcoming Supporting the
Covenant: Family and Community is under contract with the University of
Chicago Press. Professor Brinig serves as a referee various journals and
academic presses. She is a member of the American Law Institute, an
executive board member of the International Society for Family Law, and has
recently been an officer in both the American and Canadian Law and Economics
Associations. She has been an officer in the Socioeconomics and Family Law
Sections of the American Association of Law Schools and is currently
Chair-Elect of the Law and Economics section. She holds graduate degrees in
both law and economics.