Faculty

Meredith Johnson Harbach is Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law, where she teaches courses in Family Law, Children & the Law, Reproductive Justice, and Civil Procedure. Her recent scholarship has analyzed and critiqued the state’s relationship to families and children through the lens of America’s childcare law and policy. She also writes on reproductive justice and state politics. Her 2016 article, Nudging Parents, was winner of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Call for Papers Award. Professor Harbach is Chair of the AALS Section on Children & the Law. She supervises the Family Law Concentration Program at Richmond Law, and recently completed a three-year, gubernatorial appointment to the Virginia Council on Women, where she served as Chair of the Women’s Healthcare Initiative. During the 2017-18 Academic Year, Professor Harbach was a Visiting Scholar with the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative at Emory Law School.