Amy Laura Wax is a lawyer, neurologist, and academic from the United States.
Her research focuses on challenges in social welfare legislation and policy, as well as the interaction between the family, the workplace, and labor markets.
Wax studied Yale University and earned a bachelor’s degree there (B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, summa cum laude, 1975).
She then went to Oxford University (Marshall Scholar in Philosophy, Physiology, and Psychology, Somerville College, 1976)
She is the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Robert Mundheim Professor of Law.
Wax advocates the view that the United States should limit immigration because Western culture is superior.
Amy Wax race: Is Amy Wax white?
Wax is Jewish.
Her parents were Eastern European immigrants who lived in Troy, New York.
She attended public schools with her 2 sisters.
Her father worked in the garment business, while her mother was a teacher and government administrator in Albany, New York.
