Sarah Swan

Professor Sarah L. Swan is Professor of Law and Dean’s Civil Governance Scholar at Rutgers Law School (Newark). She is a scholar and teacher of torts, state and local government law, criminal law, and family law. Her scholarship regularly appears in the nation's leading law reviews, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and The Georgetown Law Journal, among others. Her work has been cited by multiple courts, including the New York Court of Appeals, the Delaware Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Professor Swan joined the faculty at Rutgers Law School from the faculty at Florida State University College of Law. Previously, she was an Associate-in-Law and Fellow at Columbia Law School.

Professor Swan is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served as the elected Chair of the AALS Family and Juvenile Law Section (2023-2024). She is also an auxiliary officer with the New York City Parks Mounted Auxiliary Unit and can often be found patrolling the parks of New York City on horseback.