Dr. Jill Horwitz

Biography

Jill Horwitz is a highly respected legal scholar and policy expert specializing in empirical legal research, health law policy, and nonprofit law policy. She serves as the Trobman Innovation Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and was previously the David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine at UCLA School of Law, where she also held a courtesy appointment as a Professor of Public Affairs at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Notably, Professor Horwitz served as Vice Dean for Faculty Intellectual Life at UCLA and has a strong association with the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Research Associate. Her academic journey includes pivotal roles at the University of Michigan, where she was the Louis Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business Law and co-directed programs in Law and Economics. A prolific author, her research addresses pressing issues within health care markets and the opioid crisis, reflecting her commitment to impacting law and policy. She obtained her B.A. with honors from Northwestern University and completed her M.P.P., J.D. magna cum laude, and Ph.D. in health policy at Harvard University. Additionally, she has clerked for Judge Norman Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

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