Sarah B. Lawsky

Sarah B. Lawsky is the Howard Friedman '64 JD Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She specializes in tax law, legal formalism, and the application of artificial intelligence to legal systems. Previously, she taught at UC Irvine School of Law and George Washington University Law School, and held adjunct roles at NYU. Her research bridges tax policy, statutory interpretation, and computational legal methods.

Education: AB (University of Chicago), JD (Yale Law School), LLM (NYU School of Law), PhD (UC Irvine Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science).

Her work focuses on formalizing tax codes using logic and AI, exploring uncertainty in legal statutes, and optimizing tax policy through behavioral economics. She has held leadership roles including Vice Dean and Associate Dean of Academic Programs at Northwestern. Her publications analyze tax models, statutory reasoning, and philosophical foundations of legal boundaries.

Notable prior appointments include Research Professor of Law at Stanford (2011) and Senior Associate Dean at UC Irvine (2014–2016). She practices tax law previously in New York and advises on data analytics in legal education.