Professor of Law and Judge Alexander P. Waugh, Sr., Scholar.
(Torts; Family Law; Children and the Law; Race, Gender, and Tort Law.)
Professor Perry earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, her M.S.W.
from the Columbia University School of Social Work, and her J.D. from
New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar
and an editor of the Law Review. She served as law clerk
to Judge Mary Johnson Lowe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York and was associated with the New York law firm
of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts. Prior to joining the Rutgers
faculty in the spring of 1984, Professor Perry was an Assistant U.S.
Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Professor Perry writes
in the area of family law with a particular interest in the
intersection of critical race theory and feminist legal theory. She has
published articles on numerous subjects, including transracial and
international adoption, the legal obligations of marriage, the Black
family and family law, no-fault divorce, and alimony.
