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Nicole Huberfeld, JD

Edward R Utley Professor in Health Law, Health Law, Policy & Management - Boston University School of Public Health

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Biography

Nicole Huberfeld is Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at BU School of Law and School of Public Health, where she is Chair of BU Health Law Program and Co-Director of BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Her research studies the intersection of health law and constitutional law, often focusing on federalism while studying the needs of vulnerable populations in health reform, Medicaid, and reproductive rights. She is co-author of two leading health law casebooks: The Law of American Health Care, with Elizabeth Weeks (University of Georgia School of Law), Kevin Outterson (Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law, Executive Director of CARB-X), and Matt Lawrence (Associate Professor of Law at Emory School of Law) (3d edition 2023). She also is coauthor of Public Health Law, 3d Ed. (with Mariner, Annas & Ulrich, 2019) (4th edition forthcoming 2025). She has authored many book chapters, national and international law journal articles, peer-reviewed articles, and commentaries, appearing in publications such as Stanford Law Review, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Boston College Law Review, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, University of Chicago Law Review, Boston University Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, U.C. Davis Law Review, Health Affairs, JAMA, and New England Journal of Medicine. Her work has been cited in judicial opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court, lower federal courts, state courts, and federal and state executive agencies. Nicole also serves as Research Director for the Uniform Law Commission’s Joint Editorial Board on Health Law.

She has been interviewed by media such as The Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, Bloomberg News, Congressional Quarterly, Huffington Post, National Law Journal, Mother Jones, Law 360, Politico, Vice News, Newsweek, Time, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Univision.

In 2019, Huberfeld won the Excellence in Teaching Award for teaching in the Core at BU School of Public Health. In 2021, she was nominated for the Melton Teaching Award at BU Law, and in 2022, 2023, & 2024 she was nominated for the Petit Teaching Award at BU Law.

Prior to joining the BU faculty, Huberfeld taught courses on constitutional law, health care organizations and finance, bioethical issues in the law, and health law and policy at the University of Kentucky College of Law and College of Medicine. Huberfeld won the College of Law Duncan Teaching Award in 2008. Previously, she taught at Seton Hall University School of Law as well as created and directed the health care compliance certification program at SHU Law. She also practiced health law in New York and New Jersey before entering academia.

Other Positions

  • Professor - Boston University School of Law
  • Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research - Boston University

Education

  • Seton Hall University, JD Field of Study: Law
  • University of Pennsylvania, BA Field of Study: History

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHLW840
  • SPHLW951
  • SPHLW952
  • SPHPH719

Publications

  • Published on 11/5/2024

    Huberfeld N, McCuskey E, Ulrich MR. The US Presidential Election's High Stakes for the Future of Medicine. JAMA. 2024 Nov 05; 332(17):1421-1422. PMID: 39302830.

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  • Published on 7/17/2024

    Madeline Cohen, Sarah O'Connor, and Nicole Huberfeld. OB-GYN board certification shouldn’t require traveling to Texas, a state hostile to abortion and abortion providers. STAT News. 2024.

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  • Published on 6/29/2024

    Nicole Huberfeld. Why Idaho’s position in the Supreme Court emergency abortions case is concerning. The Hill. 2024.

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  • Published on 4/23/2024

    Nicole Huberfeld. EMTALA, a vital health law you’ve never heard of, is in danger. STAT News. 2024.

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  • Published on 1/1/2024

    editors Debra Bingham, Nicole Huberfeld, Sarah H. Gordon. DAVID K. JONES, RIPPLES OF HOPE IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. UNC Press. 2024.

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  • Published on 1/1/2024

    Linda C. McClain, Nicole Huberfeld. While Republicans are downplaying abortion ahead of November, Democrats are leaning in on the issue. The Conversation. 2024.

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  • Published on 1/1/2024

    Margaret Katana Ogongo, Beth Karlan, Alexander Melamed, Nicole Huberfeld, Robin Yabroff, Jennifer Zhu. Impact of the Dobbs Decision on Cancer Care (w/M.K. Ogongo, B. Karlan, A. Melamed, R. Yabroff, J. Zhu),. SOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY BLOG. 2024.

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  • Published on 1/1/2024

    Nicole Huberfeld, Karen Basen-Engquist, Beth Y. Karlan, Margaret Katana Ogongo, K. Robin Yabroff. The Effect of Dobbs on Cancer Care. Health Affairs Forefront. 2024.

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  • Published on 1/1/2024

    Gregory Curfman, Nicole Huberfeld. Federal Appeals Court Upholds Graphic Warning Labels For Cigarettes. Health Affairs Forefront. 2024.

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  • Published on 1/1/2024

    Nicole Huberfeld. Confusion, Chaos, and Conflict in U.S. Law and Health Care after Dobbs, ILCEA (Institut des langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie, University Grenoble Alps). 2024.

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