Abigail R. Moncrieff

Peter Paul Development Professor
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., cum laude, Wellesley College
J.D., with honors, University of Chicago Law School

Interests: healthcare law; healthcare law and economics; structural constitutional law; legislation

Abigail Moncrieff first became interested in healthcare law while working on Al Gore’s presidential campaign during her first year of college in 1999-2000, walking door-to-door in New Hampshire to convince primary voters that Gore’s healthcare plan was more realistic than his opponent’s. Her interest grew stronger throughout and immediately following college, as she wrote seminar papers about the Patients’ Bill of Rights, interned in Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s healthcare policy office, and accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to study comparative healthcare policy in Switzerland.

During law school, the issues that Professor Moncrieff had begun tackling during college came into sharper focus as she mastered the tools necessary for understanding the complex legal problems underlying insurance markets and healthcare delivery. She started engaging in academic law during her time at University of Chicago Law School, writing two articles related to insurance and public health, one of which won the Casper Platt Award for Outstanding Paper by a Law Student and was later published in the Administrative Law Review.

After graduating from University of Chicago in 2006, Professor Moncrieff clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Sidney R. Thomas and then accepted an academic fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. While at the Petrie-Flom Center, Professor Moncrieff wrote an article arguing for federalization of medical malpractice policy, which was published in the Columbia Law Review. She joined the faculty at Boston University School of Law in 2009, where she now teaches the first-year Legislation course as well as a seminar on Health Care Law and the Constitution. In her writing, she continues to tackle structural governmental barriers to efficient healthcare delivery in the United States.