# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amy-l-wax
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:29:14.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amy-l-wax"
name: "Amy L. Wax"
slug: "amy-l-wax"
description: "Amy Laura Wax is an American legal scholar and neurologist. She is a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy, as well as the relationship of the family, the workplace, and labor markets. Her remarks on race have attracted controversy, with some calling them white supremacist or racist and others disputing those characterizations."
tagline: "American legal scholar (1953-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amy_Wax_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1953-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.08
  momentum:             15.61149182920401
  historical:           6.405801333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-wax-7b77b9a/"
    handle:    "amy-wax-7b77b9a"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/awax/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Эми Вакс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "ايمى واكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Wax"
    title: "Amy Wax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Wax"
    title: "Amy Wax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "איימי וקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Wax"
    title: "Amy Wax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98_%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98"
    title: "ემი ვაქსი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62871161"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump