- Family Law
- Property
- Trusts & Estates
- The Regulation of the Modern Family (Seminar)
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Education
- BA, Honors and Distinction, Stanford University
- JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School
Background
Professor Albertina Antognini teaches Family Law, Property, Trusts & Estates, and a seminar on the state of the contemporary American family. Her research examines how law regulates intimate relationships across fields spanning property, contracts, and constitutional law. She is centrally preoccupied with the question of how categories that may appear “natural” are in fact products of law, with the goal of opening them up to a more rigorous critique.
Professor Antognini’s pieces have recently been published in UC Irvine Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Stanford Law Review, among others. In 2023, she was awarded a Fulbright to conduct research on nonmarital couples in Stockholm, Sweden. Her pieces have been twice selected for the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, and while at the University of Arizona, she received the College of Law’s Distinguished Early Career Scholar Award.
Professor Antognini is a co-founder and co-organizer of the Roundtable on Nonmarriage and the Law, an interdisciplinary conference focused on the study of nonmarital relationships. She has co-chaired the Family Law and Scholars Teachers conference, and participated as an observer in the Uniform Law Commission’s drafting of the Uniform Cohabitants’ Economic Remedies Act. She is currently a contributing editor to JOTWELL’s Family Law section.
Professor Antognini received her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and her B.A., with honors and distinction in Comparative Literature, from Stanford University, where she was awarded the Robert M. Golden Medal for her thesis on phenomenology and Italian literature. In 2010, she clerked for the Honorable Rosemary S. Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to joining Loyola, Professor Antognini was the James E. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, and a Thomas C. Grey Fellow at Stanford Law School.
Selected Scholarship
- Fraudulent Families, 15 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 128 (2024)
- Shallow Fakes, 128 Penn St. L. Rev. 69 (2023) (co-authored with Andrew K. Woods)
- Unwed Parents: The Limits of the Constitution, 35 J. Am. Acad. Matrim. Law. 425 (2023)
- Sexual Agreements, 99 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1879 (2022) (co-authored with Susan Frelich Appleton) (Selected for peer review in JOTWELL)
- Nonmarital Contracts, 73 Stan. L. Rev. 67 (2021) (Selected for peer review in JOTWELL)
- Nonmarital Coverture, 99 B.U. L. Rev. 2139 (2019)
- Against Nonmarital Exceptionalism, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1891 (2018)
- The Law of Nonmarriage, 58 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (2017)
- Family Unity Revisited: Divorce, Separation, and Death in Immigration Law, 66 S.C. L. Rev. 1 (2014)
- From Citizenship to Custody: Unwed Fathers Abroad and at Home, 36 Harv. J. L. & Gender 405 (2013)