Anita Wyzanski Robboy

• 2022-2023: Visiting Scholar at Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University; Research Associate at Hadassah – Brandeis Institute
• 2009: Recipient of Volunteer Lawyers Project, “Gideon’s Trumpet Award”
• 2005 – 2007: Named a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” in the areas of Family Law and Litigation

Anita spent two years as a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England and is widely known for her professional writing, including her well-known book, Aftermarriage: The Myth of Divorce, Alpha Publication (2001). Anita’s other written contributions include:

• 2013: “Alimony Reform Act One Year Later: Early Lessons to be Learned,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
• “Hot Tips about Social Security for Lawyers,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
• “What Family Law Attorneys Need to Know About the Social Security Act,” Massachusetts Family Law Quarterly
• 1993: “Family Law Guidebook: A View from the Bench,” Butterworth Legal Publishers
• January 1991: “C.C. v. A. B. and Beyond,” with Judge Edward M. Ginsburg, Boston Bar Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1
• 1975: “A Black Conductor on the Underground Railroad,” published in The Many Voices of Boston: A Historical Anthology, 1630-1975, H.M. Jones Little Brown Co., Boston, pp 204-212
• 1973: “Lewis Hayden: From Fugitive Slave to Statesman,” New England Quarterly, 46: 591-613

• 2015: Presenter, MBA Annual Family Law Conference, “Divorce and the Special Needs Child: Pitfalls to Avoid”
• 2013: Presenter, Senior Partners for Justice, “Pearls and Pitfalls of the Alimony Reform Act”
• 2012: Presenter, Senior Partners for Justice, “Social Security and Family Law”
• 2008: Presenter, National Conferences for the Institute of Financial Analysts