Jill Horwitz

Trobman Innovation Professor of Law
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine

Biography

Jill Horwitz previously served as the David Sanders Professor in Law and Medicine at UCLA School of Law and Professor of Public Affairs (by courtesy) at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Jack N. Pritzker Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She was the Vice Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life at UCLA School of Law for the academic years 2019-2021. Professor Horwitz holds appointments as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria Department of Economics in British Columbia, Canada. Prior to joining UCLA in 2012, she was on the law faculty at the University of Michigan, where she was the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law and Co-Director of Law and Economics. She also held joint appointments at Michigan with the School of Public Health and the Ford School of Public Policy.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Empirical Legal Research
  • Health Law and Policy
  • Nonprofit Law and Policy

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Education

  • BA, Northwestern University
  • MPP, Harvard University
  • JD, Harvard University
  • PhD, Harvard University

Prior Appointments

  • Jack N. Pritzker Visiting Professor of Law, 2025, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine, 2020-2025, University of California Los Angeles School of Law
  • Vice Dean for Faculty & Intellectual Life, 2019-2021, University of California Los Angeles School of Law
  • Professor of Public Affairs (by courtesy), 2017-2025, University of California Los Angeles School of Law
  • Professor of Law, 2012-2020, University of California Los Angeles School of Law
  • Professor of Health Management & Policy (by courtesy), 2010-2012, University of Michigan School of Public Health
  • Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy), 2010-2012, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy
  • Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business & Law, 2009-2010, University of Michigan Law School
  • Professor of Law, 2008-2012, University of Michigan Law School
  • Assistant Professor, 2003-2008, University of Michigan Law School

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