Sarah Waldeck

Professor Sarah Waldeck

Professor of Law
SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL

waldecsa@shu.edu
(973) 642-8820
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Biography
 
Professor Sarah Waldeck focuses on how the law influences behavior and shapes social and familial norms. Her scholarship has explored this question in a number of contexts, including charitable giving and the estate tax, electronic payment systems and other emerging technologies, and male circumcision.

Her most recent work examines university endowment spending policies and their consequences and proposes a methodology for determining which endowments are large enough to warrant Congressional attention. This work is informed by Professor Waldeck’s experience before law school, when she worked in the development offices of a small liberal arts college and a New York City hospital.

Professor Waldeck’s current work-in-progress explores the legal and familial arrangements typical to inherited family cottages. This is a topic she frequently uses to elucidate legal doctrine when she teaches Property and Estates and Trusts. Professor Waldeck also teaches Cultural Property and, on occasion, Criminal Law.

Professor Waldeck blogs on these and other topics on Concurring Opinions. Seton Hall Law School named her the Robert Diab Research Fellow in 2007.

Prior to joining the Seton Hall faculty in 1999, Professor Waldeck was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. She also clerked for the Honorable Richard Cudahy of the United Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin, where she was editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Law Review.

 
Publications
 

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Inherited Property and Tenancies in Common, Work-in-Progress

The Coming Showdown Over University Endowments: Enlisting the Donors,  Fordham L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009).

Government Intervention in Emerging Networked Technologies, Ore L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008) (Co-Authored with Eric Lillquist)         
                
An Appeal to Charity: Using Philanthropy to Reinvigorate the Estate Tax, 24 Va. Tax Rev. 667 (2005).

Using Male Circumcision to Understand How Social Norms Work as Multipliers, 72 U. Cin. L. Rev. 455 (2003).

Social Norm Theory and Male Circumcision: Why Parents Circumcise, 3 Am. J. Bioethics, Issue 2 (2003).

Encouraging a Market in Human Milk, 11 Colum. J. Gender & L. 361 (2002).

Cops, Community Policing, and the Social Norms Approach to Crime Control: Should One Make Us More Comfortable with the Others?, 34 Ga. L. Rev. 1253 (2000).