Rate My Professor Ani Satz

Satz's research brings together law, policy, ethics, and business to address issues in human health, disability, and nonhuman animals, with specializations in health law, disability law, animal law, torts, and law and philosophy. Her work explores regulatory fragmentation, the gap between formal legal protections and lived experience, and tort law's role in promoting health care quality. Key publications include "Customary Corruption" (with Liza Vertinsky), 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025); "Federalism, State Action, and Workers’ Medical Privacy," 100 Ind. L.J. (forthcoming 2024); "Rethinking Health Law Architecture," Am. J.L. Med. & Ethics (forthcoming 2024); "The Federalism Challenges of Protecting Workers’ Medical Privacy," 94 Ind. L.J. 1555 (2019); and "Animals as Living Accommodations," 24 Animal L. Rev. 1 (2018). She chaired sections of the Association of American Law Schools on Animal Law (2017), Law, Medicine and Health Care (2014), and Disability Law (2009), and was elected to the American Law Institute in 2016. Major awards include Fulbright Postgraduate Research Scholar and Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar. Satz teaches Torts, Health Law, Disability Law, Animal Law, Genetics and the Law, and Business Ethics; her scholarship has appeared in Michigan Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, and has been featured in Time Magazine, CNN, National Public Radio, and other outlets.