Abbe R. Gluck is joining Bill of Health as a regular contributor.

Abbe R. Gluck is a professor at Yale Law School. She joined Yale Law School in 2012, having previously served as an associate professor of law and the Milton Handler Fellow at Columbia Law School since January 2010. She is an expert in Congress and the political process, legislation, federalism, state and local government, civil procedure, and health law. She has extensive experience working as a lawyer in all levels of government. Prior to joining Columbia, Professor Gluck served in the administration of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine as the special counsel and senior advisor to the New Jersey Attorney General. She also served in the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg – as chief of staff and counsel to the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, senior counsel in the New York City Office of Legal Counsel, and deputy special counsel to the New York City Charter Revision Commission. Prior to law school, she worked in the U.S. Senate for Senator Paul S. Sarbanes of Maryland.

Before returning to government work after law school, Professor Gluck was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She earned B.A. degrees in English and International Studies from Yale University, summa cum laude, where she was editor-in-chief of The Yale Herald, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, she clerked for then-Chief Judge Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Her recent writing has used federalism as lens through which to study both statutory interpretation theory and health law. Most recently, Professor Gluck conducted the most extensive empirical study in history about the realities of the congressional law-making process, the results of which were published in two articles in the Stanford Law Review.

Recent Publications:

Statutory Interpretation from the Inside—An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting,
Delegation and the Canons: Part II, 66 STAN. L. REV. – (forthcoming 2014) (with Lisa
Bressman)

Our National Federalism, 123 YALE L.J. – (forthcoming 2014)

Statutory Interpretation from the Inside—An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting,
Delegation and the Canons: PartI, 65 STAN. L.REV. 901 (2013) (with Lisa Bressman)

Federalism from Federal Statutes: Health Reform, Medicaid and the Old Fashioned
Federalists’ Gamble, in THE HEALTH CARE CASE (Persily et al. eds. 2013)

The Federal Common Law of Statutory Interpretation: Erie for the Age of Statutes, 54 WM. & MARY L. REV. 753 (2013)

Federalism from Federal Statutes: Health Reform, Medicaid and the Old Fashioned
Federalists’ Gamble, 81 FORDHAM L. REV. 1748 (2013)

A Conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 25 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. (2013) (with Gillian Metzger)

Intrastatutory Federalism and Statutory Interpretation: State Implementation of Federal Law in Health Reform and Beyond, 121 YALE L.J. 534 (2011)

Statutory Interpretation Methodology as “Law”: Oregon’s Pathmarking Approach and its Lessons for the Nation, 47 WILLAMETTE L. REV. 539 (2011) (invited keynote address)

Intersystemic Statutory Interpretation: Methodology as “Law” and the Erie Doctrine, 120 YALE L.J. 1898 (2011)