Nadia N. Sawicki is Beazley Chair in Health Law and Georgia Reithal Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Her areas of expertise are torts, health law, and bioethics. Prof. Sawicki’s research addresses issues at the intersection of these three fields, and she has published widely on subjects including law’s role in shaping the informed consent process; the challenges of protecting patients’ rights to effective medical care while also accommodating health care providers’ conscientious beliefs; tort law’s limitations in protecting the rights of patients making end of life decisions; and the state’s role in enforcing ethical norms in medicine. Prof. Sawicki is an active member of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and regularly serves as a peer reviewer for academic journals and professional organizations. In 2020, Prof. Sawicki was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. She has previously served as a member of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law, and co-chair of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities’ Law Affinity Group.
