Nicole Huberfeld Joins BU as Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights
Huberfeld brings expertise at the intersection of health care law and constitutional law.
Nicole Huberfeld joined Boston University in July as professor of health law, ethics & human rights at the University’s School of Public Health. Her scholarship focuses on the cross-section of health care law and constitutional law with emphasis on health care reform, the role of federalism, and spending power in federal health care programs, especially Medicaid.
She authored the first new casebook on health care law in a generation, The Law of American Health Care, with Elizabeth Weeks, of the University of Georgia School of Law, and Kevin Outterson, executive director of CARB-X and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law at BU Law. The Law of American Health Care was written to serve a rising generation of health care lawyers in a new legal landscape redefined by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. As such, it was conceived and structured as a departure from many traditional casebooks.
Huberfeld’s article, titled Federalizing Medicaid, was cited by the US Supreme Court in the first Affordable Care Act case, NFIB v. Sebelius. Her work also has been cited by the Delaware Supreme Court, federal district courts, and in briefs to the US Supreme Court. She has an article forthcoming in Stanford Law Review (with co-author Abbe Gluck, Professor of Law and Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School) and has published in national and international journals including Boston College Law Review, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, Boston University Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Health Affairs, and Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law. She has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including Congressional Quarterly, Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, National Law Journal, Mother Jones, and Modern Healthcare.
Prior to joining the BU faculty, Huberfeld was the Ashland-Spears Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law and a bioethics associate at the College of Medicine. She taught courses on constitutional law, health care organizations and finance, bioethical issues in the law, and a seminar on health law and policy. Previously, she taught at Seton Hall University School of Law and directed the health care compliance certification program there. Huberfeld also practiced law in New York and New Jersey before entering academia.
