Abbe Gluck

Yale Law School

Abbe R. Gluck is the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and the founding Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She is also Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and a Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale and the Founding Faculty Director of the Yale Medical-Legal Partnership. Gluck has extensive experience serving all levels of government. Most recently,  she served in the Biden Administration as Special Counsel to the President where she was  the lead lawyer for the White House COVID-19 Response and the  lawywr in the White House Counsel’s Office responsible for litigation and policy relating to health care, USDA, and Veterans Affairs across the administration. She earned her B.A. and J.D. from Yale, and  clerked for then-Chief Judge Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Her newest book, COVID-19 and Law: Disruption, Impacts, Legacy (with Cohen et al.), was published in 2023. Her forthcoming book, Law and the 100-year-old American (with Alstott et al.)comes out next year.