Audra Lyn Savage interrogates race and racism in law, specifically focusing on law, race & religion. She teaches courses on business organizations, race and the law, and law and religion. Professor Savage's scholarship has been published in the Columbia Law Review Forum, Utah Law Review, and the Journal of Law and Religion. She also has a chapter in a peer-reviewed collection of essays on Derrick Bell's racial realism, and is a collaborator with Columbia Law School's Law, Rights, and Religion Project.
Prior to joining the Wake Forest Law faculty, Professor Savage was a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Hon. James A. … Read more »
Audra Lyn Savage interrogates race and racism in law, specifically focusing on law, race & religion. She teaches courses on business organizations, race and the law, and law and religion. Professor Savage's scholarship has been published in the Columbia Law Review Forum, Utah Law Review, and the Journal of Law and Religion. She also has a chapter in a peer-reviewed collection of essays on Derrick Bell's racial realism, and is a collaborator with Columbia Law School's Law, Rights, and Religion Project.
Prior to joining the Wake Forest Law faculty, Professor Savage was a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Hon. James A. Wynn, Jr.) and was the Senior Lecturer and McDonald Distinguished Fellow at Emory University School of Law. Prior to joining the academy, she was in-house counsel for a public-private partnership transportation project in Northern Virginia, and served as a corporate associate for both Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Hogan Lovells.
Professor Savage earned her Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) with high honors at Emory Law with a dissertation focused on racism as the national civil religion of America. She received a Juris Doctor (JD) at Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Business Law Review. Professor Savage also received a Master of Laws (LLM) from Emory Law.
Professor Savage enjoys ballet, international traveling, yoga, horseback riding (English saddle), and movies.