June Carbone

Professor June Carbone is the inaugural holder of the Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology. She is an expert in family law, assisted reproduction, property, and law, medicine and bioethics, and also has taught contracts, remedies, financial institutions, civil procedure, and feminist jurisprudence. Previously she taught at other universities and before that she served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice (1978-83). Carbone writes prolifically on law and the family, marriage, divorce, and domestic obligations, including changes brought about by the biotechnology revolution. Her most recent books are Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford U. Press, 2010), which explores the effects of diverging values and norms in America, and Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family (Oxford U. Press, 2014), which examines the widening class divide in the American family.