Ani B. Satz

Associate Professor, Emory University School of Law, Rollins School of Public Health, and Center for Ethics

Curriculum Vitae

 

Areas of Expertise
Health Law, Disability Law, Law and Philosophy, Animal Law

Biography

Ani B. Satz is a regulatory health lawyer and philosopher who teaches Torts, Health Law, Disability Law, Animal Law, Genetics and the Law, and Law and Vulnerability. Her research focuses on the legal response to vulnerability and governmental obligations to those who are vulnerable. Professor Satz's most recent scholarship addresses from a law and ethics perspective access to health care, disability discrimination, and the well-being of nonhuman animals. Her work has appeared in books, peer-reviewed journals, and law reviews. Professor Satz's scholarship is published in journals including the Michigan Law Review; Washington & Lee Law Review; Emory Law Journal; Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics; and Washington Law Review. 

Professor Satz was a Fulbright Postgraduate Research Scholar at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Tulsa. She holds a JD from the University of Michigan School of Law and a PhD in philosophy from Monash University, which she completed while a fellow at Princeton University. Before coming to Emory, Professor Satz lectured at Yale University in the Philosophy Department and the Ethics, Politics and Economics Program, as well as at Monash University Medical School. She also clerked for the Honorable Jane R. Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

In addition to her Law School appointment, Professor Satz holds faculty appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health and the Center for Ethics. 

Professor Satz was a visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center Fall 2010. She served as 2009-10 chair of the Disability Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and continues to serves as a member of the executive board of that section as well as the Animal Law Section.

Education: BA (Hons.), University of Tulsa; PhD, Monash University (completed at Princeton University); JD, University of Michigan.

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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Disability and Discrimination: Cases and Materials (forthcoming Aspen 2013)

Disability, Vulnerability, and Legal Fragmentation: Toward Accessing Education, Work, and Health Care, in Righting Educational Wrongs: Disability Studies in Law and Education (Arlene S. Kanter & Beth A. Ferri eds., forthcoming 2011)

Disability Discrimination After the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, 2010 Utah L. Rev. (forthcoming 2011) (invited introduction to AALS Section on Disability Law 2010 program)

Overcoming Fragmentation in Health and Disability Law, 60 Emory L. J. 277 (2011)

Fragmented Lives: Disability Discrimination and the Role of “Environment-Framing,” 68 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 187 (2010)

Animals as Vulnerable Subjects: Beyond Interest-Convergence, Hierarchy, and Property, 16 Animal L. Rev. 65 (2009)

Disability, Vulnerability, and the Limits of Antidiscrimination, 83 Wash. L. Rev. 153 (2008)

The Limits of Health Care Reform, 59 Ala. L. Rev. 1451 (2008)

Toward Solving the Health Care Crisis: The Paradoxical Case for Universal Access to High Technology, 8 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 93 (2008) (peer reviewed)

A Jurisprudence of Dysfunction: On the Role of “Normal Species Functioning” in Disability Analysis, 6 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 221 (2006) (peer reviewed)

Would Rosa Parks Wear Fur? Toward a Nondiscrimination Approach to Animal Welfare, 1 J. Animal L. & Ethics 101 (2006)

The Case Against Assisted Suicide Reexamined, 100 Mich. L. Rev. 1380 (2002) (reviewing Kathleen Foley & Herbert Hendin eds., The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care (2002))

Disability and Biotechnology, in Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (Thomas J. Murray & Maxwell J. Mehlman eds., 2000) (with Anita Silvers)

Book Review, 14 Bioethics 279 (2000) (reviewing Neil A. Holtzman and Michael S. Watson, Promoting Safe and Effective Genetic Testing in The United States (1999))

Prenatal Genetic Testing and Discrimination Against the Disabled: A Conceptual Analysis, Monash Bioethics Rev., Oct. 1999, at 11

Book Review, 13 Bioethics 443 (1999) (reviewing Maxwell J. Mehlman and Jeffrey R. Botkin, Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality (1998))

Doctors as Managers, 4 Health Care Analysis 162 (1996)

Book Note, 10 Bioethics 89 (1996) (reviewing Susan Wright, Molecular Politics: Developing American and British Regulatory Policy for Genetic Engineering (1994))

Tribal Courts, Tribal Judges, and Indian Law in Wisconsin, in Classroom Activities on Wisconsin Indian Treaties and Tribal Sovereignty 212 (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 1996) [Winner of the Wisconsin Library Association Distinguished Document Award]

Book Review, 3 Health Care Analysis 334 (1995) (reviewing Angus Clark ed., Genetic Counselling: Practice and Principles (1994))

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Memorial Dedication to Stephanie Feldman Aleong, 34 Nova L. Rev. 583 (2010) (invited contribution)

A Not-So Protective Law: Genetic Screening Safeguard Creates Unforeseen Inequities, Difficulties, Atlanta J.-Const., May 27, 2008, at A13

Re-Imagining Health Care Reform: From Old Paradox to New Paradigm, The Academic Exchange, May 2008, at 8

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