Jill R. Horwitz

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Jill R. Horwitz is the Trobman Family Innovation Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Professor of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. [1] She is a faculty expert at the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at Northwestern University. [2]

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Horwitz also serves as Founding Faculty Director of the Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits at UCLA School of Law. [3] She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, [4] and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia of Canada. [5]

Horwitz was the Reporter of the American Law Institute's first Restatement of the Law Charitable Nonprofit Organizations. [6]

Education and training

Horwitz graduated from Northwestern University, with a B.A. in History with honors. [7] She holds a J.D. magna cum laude, Master in Public Policy, and Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University. [8] She was a Law Clerk for Judge Norman H. Stahl of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1997–1998). [9]

Career

Before joining Northwestern University in 2025, Horwitz was on the UCLA School of Law faculty from 2012-2025. She was the David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine at the UCLA School of Law, and served as Vice Dean of Faculty and Intellectual Life. Horwitz was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School from 2003 to 2012. While at the University of Michigan, she was the Co-Director of the Program in Law and Economics and the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law. [10] She also held appointments at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She has been a member of the Core Faculties of both the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical and Policy Scholars programs at Michigan.

Among her many appointments, she has been chair of the Board of Advisors of the New York University National Center on Philanthropy and the Law. [11]

Horwitz has written extensively on both nonprofit law and the interconnections among health regulation, economics, and policy. She has published on topics ranging from the effects of nonprofit and for-profit ownership of hospitals on medical service provision [12] to medical technology diffusion [13] and opioid regulation [14] , and has frequently commented on these topics in editorials, [15] [16] [17] [18] testimony to Congress, [19] [20] and the press. [21] [22] [23] Horwitz's publications often attract scholarly and public attention, including her work on hospital ownership [24] and workplace wellness. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]


References

  1. ↑ "Jill Horwitz, Faculty Profiles, Faculty & Research: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law".
  2. ↑ "Faculty Experts".
  3. ↑ "UCLA LMPN".
  4. ↑ "Jill Horwitz". The National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Faculty Members and Areas of Research". University of Victoria. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "Current Projects: Principles of the Law of Charitable Nonprofit Organizations". The American Law Institute. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  7. ↑ "New Appointments". UCLA School of Law. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  8. ↑ "New Appointments". UCLA School of Law. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  9. ↑ "Jill R. Horwitz". UCLA School of Law. Archived from the original on 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  10. ↑ "Jill Horwitz". University of Michigan School of Law. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  11. ↑ "Current Members of the Advisory Board". New York University School of Law. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  12. ↑ Horwitz, Jill R. (2024). "Threatening Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exemption". JAMA. 331 (6): 469–470. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.28289. PMID   38236589.
  13. ↑ Horwitz, Jill R.; Nichols, Austin; Yu, Anthony; Colla, Carrie H.; Cutler, David M. (August 2025). "Technology regulation reconsidered: The effects of certificate of need policies on the quantity and quality of diagnostic imaging". Journal of Health Economics. 102 103020. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.103020. PMC  12278910. PMID   40543423.[ non-primary source needed ]
  14. ↑ Meara, Ellen; Horwitz, Jill R.; Powell, Wilson; McClelland, Lynn; Zhou, Weiping; O'Malley, A. James; Morden, Nancy E. (2016). "State Legal Restrictions and Prescription-Opioid Use among Disabled Adults". New England Journal of Medicine. 375 (1): 44–53. doi:10.1056/NEJMsa1514387. PMC   4985562 . PMID   27332619.
  15. ↑ "Universities Hit by US Funding Drain Have Legal Means to Recover". 21 May 2025.
  16. ↑ "OpenAI Conversion Sheds Nonprofit Purpose Without Justification". 13 February 2025.
  17. ↑ Jill R. Horwitz; Helen Levy (29 June 2012). "Obamacare will help drive down health care costs". CNN. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  18. ↑ Jill R. Horwitz; Helen Levy. "Health Care Economics 101 And The Supreme Court". Health Affairs Blog. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  19. ↑ https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Statement-of-Jill-R.-Horwitz-September-16-2025.pdf
  20. ↑ "The Tax-Exempt Hospital Sector". U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  21. ↑ "OpenAI's Complex Path to Becoming a For-Profit Company". 29 September 2024.
  22. ↑ Stephanie Strom (2008-02-20). "Hospital's Accounting Is Under Fire by a Union". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  23. ↑ Noah Ovshinsky (20 May 2010). "Can Health Care Save Detroit?". NPR.org. National Public Radio. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  24. ↑ Beckman, Mary; Horwitz, Jill (2025). "The Steward Debacle: Legal and Ethical Risks of the New Breed of Health Care For-Profits" . Health Affairs Forefront. doi:10.1377/forefront.20250904.215132.
  25. ↑ Chris Fleming; 21 January 2014 (2014). "Examination Of Health Information Technology's Disappointing Impact Leads Health Affairs 2013 Top-Fifteen List" . Health Affairs Blog. doi:10.1377/forefront.20140121.036499.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ↑ Ron Goetzl (2014). "Workplace Wellness Programs: Continuing The Discussion" . Health Affairs Blog. doi:10.1377/forefront.20140127.036730.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  27. ↑ Sarah Kliff. "Corporate wellness programs: Not quite the cost savers". The Washington Post . Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  28. ↑ Rex Huppke (18 March 2013). "Weighing employee wellness programs". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  29. ↑ "Jill Horwitz". C-SPAN. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
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