Jennifer Oliva

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Jennifer Oliva is Professor of Law and Val Nolan Faculty Fellow at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she was awarded the 2024 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award and 2024 IU Maurer Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Most Outstanding Interactive Professor Award. Professor Oliva is a Research Scholar at Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law and a Senior Scholar with the UCSF/UC Law Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. She currently serves on the National Pain Advocacy Center’s Science & Policy Advisory Council and the Johns Hopkins University/UCSF Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) National Advisory Committee. Professor Oliva served as the 2023 Chair of the American Association of Law School’s (AALS) Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care and is the 2024 Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Biolaw. Her scholarship has been published by, or is forthcoming in, the Virginia Law Review, California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, UCLA Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, American Journal of Law & Medicine, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and online companions to the Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review and New York University Law Review. Professor Oliva’s research and teaching interests include health law and policy, privacy, evidence, torts, and complex litigation.

Presentation (PPTX format): The “New” Drug War: Implications for the U.S. Overdose Crisis, the Post-Dobbs Abortion Landscape, and the Public’s Health