Danielle Pelfrey Duryea (MA, JD, LLM) is an Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University School of Law, where she is a member of the Center for Health Law Studies and inaugural director of SLU’s new medical-legal partnership with Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. Her research and teaching interests include:
- Health justice, health equity, and medical-legal partnership;
- Critical theories and practices;
- Interprofessional collaborative practice and interprofessional education;
- Food and drug law; and
- Administrative law, regulatory compliance, and organizational risk management.
Before joining the faculty at SLU, she founded and directed health-related experiential programs at Boston University School of Law and the University at Buffalo School of Law; she also completed a clinical teaching fellowship in the Domestic Violence Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. Before entering legal academia, she practiced in health law and government enforcement for five years at AmLaw A-List firm Ropes & Gray LLP. Before earning her JD at Georgetown, she was a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia, where her dissertation work applied a postcolonial theoretical approach to racism in white feminism.