Sanger was born on December 30, 1948, in
Nuremberg,
Germany. Sanger joined the faculty of
Columbia Law School in 1996. She teaches and writes about contracts, family law, and abortion law in the
United States. She was named an honorary fellow of
Mansfield College, Oxford for her “world-renowned scholarship in the common law of contract, women’s rights, and research in human rights law.” She was also a fellow at the
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Sanger delivered the 2018 Annual Distinguished Lecture for
Boston University School of Law. She was honored by the academic journal
The Green Bag for "exemplary legal writing" in 2013 for her article
The Birth of Death: Stillborn Birth Certificates and the Problem for Law, which first appeared on the
California Law Review. == Personal life ==