Health Law considers the regulation of health care, medical research, and the food and pharmaceutical industries, as well as legal issues relating to public health. Read more about our Health Law offerings.
Dionne Lomax
Dionne Lomax is a Lecturer in the Markets, Public Policy and Law Department at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and (by courtesy) at Boston University’s School of Law. Prior to joining BU, Dionne dedicated her legal career to analyzing complex business transactions from an antitrust regulatory perspective. As a Partner in two national law […]
Wendy K. Mariner
Professor Wendy Mariner’s research focuses on laws governing health risks, including social and personal responsibility for risk creation in conceptions of insurance, as well as national health systems, including the Affordable Care Act and ERISA, health information privacy, and population health policy. She has published more than 100 articles in the legal, medical and health […]
Dianne McCarthy
Dianne McCarthy is a retired health care lawyer. Her legal work has focused on non-profit healthcare law, specializing in privacy and compliance; transactions related to intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions; faculty matters, including conflict of interest and scientific misconduct; and research related issues including those related to human subject research. Her current focus is […]
Linda C. McClain
Linda C. McClain is known for her work in family law, gender and law, and feminist legal theory. Her most recent book, Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), argues that, although denouncing and preventing bigotry is a shared political value with a long history, people […]
Elizabeth McCuskey
Elizabeth McCuskey is Professor of Health Law Policy & Management at the BU School of Public Health and BU School of Law, and Assistant Director of the Center for Law, Ethics, & Human Rights. Her research focuses on how state and local governments pursue legal reforms that promote health equity – especially insurance and access […]
Frances H. Miller
Professor Frances Miller’s zest for knowledge has turned her into one of the foremost experts on American health care law and policy and a specialist on comparative health systems. She served as a consultant to the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform in 1993 and was awarded two Fulbright Scholarships to research the […]
Kevin Outterson
Kevin Outterson, J.D., LL.M., is Professor of Law and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University, where he leads the Social Innovation on Drug Resistance program. He is also the founding Executive Director and Principal Investigator of Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), a global non-profit partnership funded by the U.S., U.K., and […]
Christopher Robertson
Christopher Robertson is a tenured professor and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health & Disability Law. He is also a Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management in the BU School of Public Health. In Fall 2025 he is on leave, serving as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Professor Robertson is an expert […]
Rachel Rosenberg
Rachel Rosenberg joins BU Law as a Lecturer to co-teach the Mental Health Litigation Practicum. Rachel began her career in public service by representing court-involved students in school discipline and special education matters as a Skadden Fellow at the EdLaw Project. She then joined the Public Defender Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services […]
Laura Stephens
Request an appointment Laura Stephens is a graduate of the BU Law Health Law Program. Following a judicial clerkship with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in Providence, she practiced law in the Office of the General Counsel for Mass General Brigham in Boston for 25 years before returning to the […]