Ani B. Satz is a regulatory health lawyer and philosopher who is an expert in health, disability, tort, and animal law; policy; and ethics. Satz is Professor of Law and Public Health; Founding Director of the Health Law, Policy, and Ethics Project; Affiliated Professor of Business; Global Health Fellow; and Senior Faculty Fellow of the University Center for Ethics at Emory University. She holds a JD from the University of Michigan and a PhD in philosophy from Monash University (completed at Princeton University), where she was a Fulbright Postgraduate Research Scholar. From 2018–21, Satz served a three-year administrative term as President-Elect, President, and Immediate Past-President of the University Senate and Chair-Elect, Chair, and Immediate Past-Chair of the University Faculty Council. Her scholarship brings together law, policy, ethics, and business to examine issues affecting human health, individuals with disabilities, and nonhuman animals.Some of the unifying themes o fSatz’s work include issues of fragmentation in regulation and the difference between formal legal protection and lived experience. Her health law work has addressed topics such asaccess to and quality of health care services, challenges to regulatory and public health law architecture, public health emergencies, fragmentation in health care delivery and financing, the failures of tort law to promote patient safety, disability discrimination within healthcare, and medical privacy. Satz is widely published in books, peer-reviewed journals, and law reviews, and her research has been featured by The Hill, Time Magazine, CNN, and National Public Radio, among other media outlets. She has taught over ten different courses at Emory across four units and centers, teaching undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at all levels. Satz clerked for the Honorable Jane R. Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She served as 2017 Chair of the Section on Animal Law, 2014 Chair of the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care, and 2009 chair of the Section on Disability Law of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2016, Satz became an elected member of the American Law Institute.Spring 2027, Satz will be an Arete Ethics Research Scholar at Emory University.
