Professor Marsha Garrison

Marsha Garrison is the Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School where she is affiliated with the Law School’s Center for Health, Science & Public Policy.  Professor Garrison has co-authored two widely used textbooks: Family Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions (4^th, 5^th, and 6th eds.) and Law and Bioethics: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation (1^st-3d eds.). She currently serves as President of the International Society of Family Law and was the Society’s Secretary-General from 2005-14.  Professor Garrison is a member of the American Law Institute and the Advisory Boards of the Journal of Law and Family Studies and the Child and Family Law Quarterly. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bologna in 2013 and a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Yangon University in 2016.  Her recent research has focused on marriage, cohabitation, and child welfare decision making.