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Biography

Professor Garrison is an expert on law and policy relating to families, children, reproductive technology, health-care decision making, and torts. Her research and writing spans a broad range of topics, including marriage, cohabitation, parentage determination, the economics of divorce, medical decision making, child welfare and, most recently, climate change. Much of her research is interdisciplinary, applying social science and economic data to legal policy issues. Her research has been published in a wide variety of books and leading law journals. She is affiliated with the Center for Health, Science & Public Policy.

Professor Garrison currently serves as co-editor (with F. Swennen, University of Antwerp) of the Elgar Research Handbook on Divorce Law (forthcoming 2026). Her most recent book Family Life and Family Justice: Untying the Knot was published by Routledge in 2023. Garrison has co-authored two widely used casebooks: Family Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions (4th-6th eds.) and Law and Bioethics: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation (1st-3d eds.). She is a past president of the International Society of Family Law and a member of the American Law Institute, the advisory boards of the Cambridge Family Law Centre and the Journal of Law and Family Studies, and the International Advisory Board of the Child and Family Law Quarterly. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bologna (2014) and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo (2003), Southwest University of Political Science and Law (2025), and Yangon University (2016 [Senior Fulbright Scholar] and 2019).