Anna Zaret
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Phone
312-503-2670
Assistant
Shona Bonds
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-4852
Assistant Email
shona-bonds@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Anna Zaret is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a Ph.D. candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her research investigates the relationship between law and expertise, focusing on how medical and scientific evidence informs criminal procedure, constitutional law, and health law. Prior to joining Northwestern, she was a Fellow at the Law, Economics, and Politics Center at Berkeley Law and at the UCSF–UC Law Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy. She clerked for the Hon. Laurel Beeler of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Her scholarship has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the California Law Review. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from UC Law San Francisco, where she served as Senior Articles Editor of the UC Law Journal and was a Tobriner Social Justice Fellowship recipient.
Areas of Expertise
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
- Health Care Law
- Law and Science
Selected Publications
- Plainly Incompetent: How Qualified Immunity Became an Exculpatory Doctrine of Police Excessive Force, 170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 407 (2022) (Co-authored by: Osagie K. Obasogie).
- Medical Professionals, Excessive Force, and the Fourth Amendment, 109 California Law Review 1 (2021) (Co-authored by: Osagie K. Obasogie).
Education
- PhD Candidate (ABD), University of California, Berkeley
- JD, University of California Law, San Francisco
- BA, University of California-Santa Cruz
Prior Appointments
- Fellow, Law, Economics, and Politics Center, Berkeley Law
- Law Clerk, Hon. Laurel Beeler, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- Research Fellow, UCSF – UC Law Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy