Investiture of Sarah B. Lawsky as the L.B. Lall and Sumitra Devi Lall Professor of Law
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois College of Law
- Contact
- Heather Ball, Director of Events
- hball@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- College of Law - All Other Events Calendar
The University of Illinois College of Law will celebrate the investiture of
Sarah B. Lawsky as the
L.B. Lall and Sumitra Devi Lall Professor of Law
Tuesday, October 13
12 pmRemote attendees may join the ceremony live at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77T0YGFeugc
Free and open to the campus community; a reception will immediately follow in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion.
Sarah B. Lawsky, the L.B. Lall and Sumitra Devi Lall Professor of Law, studies tax law, computational law, and the intersection of the two. Her recent work focuses on the formalization of tax law. Professor Lawsky’s research arguing for using a particular nonstandard logic to formalize tax law is the conceptual foundation for the domain-specific programming language Catala, which is the project of a team of computer scientists and lawyers.
Before joining the University of Illinois, Professor Lawsky taught at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, and George Washington University Law School. Before entering academia, she worked as a tax lawyer for large law firms. Professor Lawsky holds a PhD from University of California - Irvine, a JD from Yale Law School, an LLM from NYU School of Law, and an AB from the University of Chicago.