Jennifer L. Herbst teaches in the areas of health law, bioethics, business organizations, administrative law, and public health law. She also serves as a volunteer community member on the Adult and Pediatric Ethics Committees for Yale-New Haven Hospital. Prior to joining the Quinnipiac faculty in 2011, she represented hospitals, health care practitioners, and pharmaceutical companies at a law firm in Philadelphia and helped coach the high school mock trial team at Franklin Learning Center.
Her current research projects include looking at the ethical and legal frameworks for informal caregivers making health care decisions for incapacitated patients, the history and theology of equity in 16th– and 17th-century England, and how to provide more and better clinical ethics support for our rural health care practitioners. Herbst received her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology from Dartmouth College, her law degree and master’s degree in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, her LL.M in Legal Education from Temple University Beasley School of Law, and Certificate in Theology and Health Care from Duke Divinity School in May 2025.