Elissa Philip Gentry is an Associate Professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business. She is also an Associate Member at the Toulouse School of Economics.
Professor Gentry holds a JD and a PhD in Law and Economics from Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining the academy, she served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France, and as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Jane Roth of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia.
An empiricist by training, Professor Gentry’s research lies at the intersection of health law, risk and uncertainty, pharmaceutical regulation, and economics. Her work on risk regulation in drugs and medical devices has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, as well as law reviews like Hastings Law Journal and Arizona State Law Journal.
Her current research empirically examines the effects of judicial opinions on pharmaceutical strategy, heterogeneity in the value of a statistical life/injury, and the doctrine of informed consent.