Elizabeth Weeks serves as Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Georgia (UGA) and holds the Charles H. Kirbo Chair in Law. Since 2020, she has served as Associate Provost for Facutly Affairs at UGA. She an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and serves as immediate past chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Torts and Compensation Systems and previous chair of the Section on Law, Medicine, and Ethics.
Weeks’s research focuses on health care financing and regulation, health care reform, and public health law. She co-authored The Law of American Health Care (with N. Huberfield, M. Lawrence, and K. Outterson) (Aspen Publishing, 3d ed. 2023) and Healthism: Health Status Discrimination and the Law (with J. Roberts) (Cambridge University Press 2019), and has a forthcoming solo-authored book, Healthism and Invisible Conditions (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2027). Weeks has authored numerous chapters, articles, and shorter pieces, in the Boston University Law Review, Hofstra Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Washington University Law Review, Georgia Law Review, and North Carolina Law Review, among others.
Additional academic honors include the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics Health Law Scholar Award; University of Kansas Meredith Docking Faculty Scholar Award; and University of Kansas School of Law Howard M. and Susan Immel Award for Teaching Excellence. She previously served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development for UGA School of Law. Weeks began her tenure-track career at the University of Kansas (KU) School of Law, where she served on the faculty for eight years, including as Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, an experiential learning program with the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Weeks also has been recognized for her academic leadership, including selection for the University System of Georgia’s Executive Leadership Institute, Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program, UGA Women’s Leadership Fellows program, UGA Public Service and Outreach Fellows program, UGA College of Public Health Leadership Academy, and the inaugural class of Advocacy Fellows for the Sunflower Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. Weeks earned her B.A. from Columbia University and J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law. She is a native of Athens, Georgia. She has professional experience as a psychiatric social worker in Chicago, Illinois; judicial law clerk in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Austin, Texas; and law firm associate in the health industry group of Vinson & Elkins, LLP in Houston, Texas.