Aviva Abramovsky joined University of Idaho College of Law as dean in June of 2024.

Abramovsky is a noted expert in the fields of insurance law, commercial law, regulation of financial entities and legal ethics. She is a member of the American Law Institute and was the winner of the New York State Bar Association Professor David D. Siegel Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the study of New York law. She is the author of “Uniform Commercial Code, West’s McKinney’s Forms for New York,” as well as numerous other book chapters and articles in the fields of insurance and commercial law.

She joins Idaho Law from the University at Buffalo School of Law, where she was the William J. Magavern Faculty Scholar. Before that role, she served as dean of the school from 2017-23. During her tenure as dean, the law school’s clinical legal education program expanded to include the launch of a new Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic, a Community Engagement Clinic, and the revitalization of its Innocence and Justice Project. The law school also saw expanded student and academic support services with significant rises in student outcomes, job placement, and bar passage.

Before Buffalo, Abramovsky was the Kaufman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and an associate dean at Syracuse University College of Law, where she led the school’s internationalization efforts.

A graduate of Cornell University, she received her bachelor’s degree in industrial and labor relations before earning her juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania.