Regents Professor; McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
Susan Wolf, JD, is McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine, and Public Policy; Faegre Benson Daniels Professor of Law; and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and is also a faculty member in the University’s Center for Bioethics. Professor Wolf is founding chair of the University’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences and Founding Director of the University’s Joint Degree Program in Law, Health and the Life Sciences. She received her AB from Princeton University and her JD from Yale Law School, with graduate work at Harvard University. In 1984 she became a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and then associate for law at The Hastings Center. She also taught law and medicine at New York University Law School for six years as an adjunct associate professor. She was a fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University before joining the Minnesota faculty in 1993. She is executive editor of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology and a member of the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics; Journal of Urban Health; and Neuroethics. She is author or coauthor of over 100 articles and chapters, law reviews, and other publications. She writes on a wide range of issues in health care, biomedical research, and oversight of emerging technologies. Her work addresses genetics and genomics, neuroscience, nanotechnology, reproductive technologies, death and dying, women’s health, and other topics in health law, law and science, and bioethics.