Visiting Scholar
2025

Nicole Huberfeld is Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at Boston University, with a joint appointment at the Law School and the School of Public Health. She is Chair of the BU Health Law Program and a founding Co-Director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Her research focuses on the intersection of health law and constitutional law, often studying law as a structural determinant of health. She frequently publishes on federalism in health care, which includes topics within health reform, Medicaid, and the post-Dobbs reproductive health landscape. She has more than 100 publications, including two leading health law casebooks, book chapters, law journal articles, peer-reviewed articles, and commentaries. Her work has been cited in judicial opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal and state courts as well as by federal and state agencies. In 2025, she won the BUSPH Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship as well as the “Do” Award for the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management. In 2019, she won an Excellence in Teaching Award at BUSPH, and students have nominated her yearly for the Pettit and the Melton Awards for excellence in teaching at BU Law. She also serves as Research Director for the Uniform Law Commission’s Joint Editorial Board on Health Law. Media quotes include the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Bloomberg News, Reuters, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Politico, Boston Globe, Stat News, and Univision.