Dr. Clare Huntington

Biography

Clare Huntington is a nationally recognized expert in family law and poverty law, with a focus on the institutions and empirical foundations that influence the legal system's treatment of relationships. Her significant scholarship covers topics such as early childhood development, aging, and the impact of artificial intelligence on nonmarital families. Huntington's work aims to address the legal system's historical emphasis on marriage, especially in contexts where nonmarital families face challenges. She has received multiple teaching awards, including the Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2025 and recognition as Teacher of the Year at Fordham Law School in 2021. Huntington has contributed articles to prestigious journals such as the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, and the Stanford Law Review. Prior to academia, she was an attorney and advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice, served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun and Stephen G. Breyer, and had a role within the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Huntington, a co-founder of the University Seminar on Families and Inequality, is affiliated with Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy and Columbia Population Research Center. She joined Columbia Law School as a professor of law on July 1, 2023, after serving at Fordham Law School and the University of Colorado Law School.

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