Category: Wendy Netter Epstein

Wendy Netter Epstein is joining Bill of Health as a regular contributor.

Professor Epstein is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University Chicago Law School, and an Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Jaharis Health Law Institute at the DePaul University College of Law.  She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Recent Developments. Prior to starting her academic career, Professor Epstein was a partner in commercial litigation at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, concentrating on health industry clients.  Professor Epstein’s teaching and research interests focus on health care law and policy, contracts, and commercial law.  Her work takes an interdisciplinary approach, applying both law and economics and behavioral science principles to problems negatively impacting vulnerable parties.  In 2017, Professor Epstein won both the University-wide and law school Excellence in Teaching Awards at DePaul University.

Representative publications:

• The Health Insurer Nudge,  91 S. Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018).
• Price Transparency and Incomplete Contracts in Health Care, 67 Emory L. J. (forthcoming 2017).
• Nudging Patient Decision-Making, 91 Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2017).
• Revisiting Incentive-Based Contracts, 17 Yale J. Health Pol’y L. & Ethics 1 (2017).
• Facilitating Incomplete Contracts, 65 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 297 (2015).
• Public-Private Contracting and the Reciprocity Norm, 64 Am. U. L. Rev. 1 (2014).
• Contract Theory and the Failures of Public-Private Contracting, 34 Cardozo L. Rev. 2211 (2013).

Welcome, Wendy!