Biography

Jamie R. Abrams’ teaching and scholarship interests include appellate advocacy, legal writing, family law, sex discrimination, masculinities theory, and immigrant rights.  Ms. Abrams has a forthcoming book chapter on Migrating and Mutating Masculinities in Institutional Law Reforms in Masculinities and Law (Ashgate Press, Martha A. Fineman and Michael Thomson eds.) and a forthcoming article on Entrenched Masculinities Within the Republican Government Tradition with the West Virginia Law Review.  She has previously published articles with the Duquesne Law Review, the William & Mary Journal of Women & the Law, and the St. Louis University Public Law Review (articles available at http://ssrn.com/author=862554).  Ms. Abrams was awarded the Mussey-Gillett Shining Star Award from the District of Columbia’s Women’s Bar Association (“WBA”) in 2008 for her work co-authoring reports in 2006 and 2008 on the status of women and women of color in the legal profession as part of the WBA’s nationally-recognized Initiative on Advancement and Retention of Women (reports available at http://www.wbadc.org). 

She previously taught Legal Rhetoric and Sex-Based Discrimination and coordinated the first-year legal research curriculum at the American University Washington College of Law.  Ms. Abrams began her career in private practice specializing in white collar criminal defense and environmental law at Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.  She then practiced at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a Litigation Associate where she specialized in complex civil litigation matters in various state and federal courts in a range of substantive areas, including accounting malpractice, products liability, wage and employment, contract disputes, and third-party discovery claims.  As an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Ms. Abrams was profiled in the American Bar Association Journal in a piece titled “Coach Me, How 3 Lawyers Learned to be All-Stars at Climbing the Corporate Ladder, Making Rain, Marketing their Practice.”

She received her LL.M from Columbia University (James Kent Scholar, highest academic honors), her J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law (summa cum laude), and her B.A. in criminal justice and political science from Indiana University – Bloomington (cum laude).

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