Joseph A. Singleton is the Health Law & Policy Fellow at the Wake Forest University School of Law. Joe is the supervising attorney for Wake Forest Law’s Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic with Dean Allyson E. Gold and conducts health law and policy research with Prof. Mark A. Hall. Joe also co-teaches a Selected Topics in Health Law Course with Prof. Chris Coughlin. Joe’s research interests include health law and policy, public health, social determinants of health, life sciences, clinical trials, health insurance, hospital regulation, medical malpractice, long-term care, and medical-legal partnerships.
Joe has worked with Prof. Mark A. Hall on the impact of Medicaid expansion on North Carolina’s health care safety net and contributed to Prof. Hall’s recent report on HCA Healthcare’s purchase of Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Joe’s most recent co-authored article, Proportional Possession (forthcoming w/Allyson E. Gold in Cornell Law Review) discusses the foundations of modern American eviction law and explores how modern eviction courts disproportionality center the interests of property owners while minimizing the possessory interests of tenants, leading to unjust outcomes.
Joe received his J.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Law, M.A. from the University of Chicago, and B.M.E. from Northern Kentucky University. Before law school, Joe worked as a legal assistant for five years at a nationally respected law firm that represented victims of nursing home abuse and neglect and medical malpractice.