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Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Columbia University
J.D., University of Georgia
Courses
Torts
Health Law Survey
Health Care Finance
Biographical Information
Elizabeth Weeks Leonard joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2011 as an associate professor teaching Torts and Health Law Survey. Her additional teaching and research interests include health care financing and regulation, and public health law.
Prior to coming to UGA, Leonard served on the faculty at the University of Kansas School of Law. During her time there, she was honored with the Howard M. and Susan Immel Award for Teaching Excellence and with the Meredith Docking Faculty Scholar Award, a university-wide honor for faculty who have distinguished themselves early in their careers. Additionally, she has served as a visiting professor at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and at Georgia Law.
Her scholarship includes articles published in the Hofstra Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Washington University Law Review and the North Carolina Law Review. She was also recognized as one of four emerging health law scholars nationwide by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics with its Health Law Scholars Award in 2005. Leonard currently serves as secretary for the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care.
Before entering academe, Leonard worked as an associate in the Health Industry Group at Vinson & Elkins in Houston. She also served as a judicial clerk for Judge Jacques L. Wiener Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and for Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips of the Supreme Court of Texas.
Leonard earned her bachelor's degree from Columbia University and her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Georgia, where she was on the Jessup Moot Court Team, was editor-in-chief of the Georgia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Before returning to her hometown of Athens for law school, Leonard was a psychiatric social worker in Chicago.
ARTICLES
Affordable Care Act Litigation: The Standing Paradox, 38 Am. J.L. & Med. 410 (2012).
The Rhetoric Hits the Road: State Challenges to the Affordable Care Act Implementation, 46 U. Rich. L. Rev. 781 (2012).
Introduction: The Prospects for Public Health Reform, 39 J.L. Med. & Ethics 312 (2011).
Can You Really Keep Your Health Plan? The Limits of Grandfathering Under the Affordable Care Act, 36 J. Corp. L. 753 (2011).
Rhetorical Federalism: The Value of State-Based Dissent to Federal Health Reform, 39 Hofstra L. Rev. 111 (2010).
State Constitutionalism and the Right to Health Care, 12 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1325 (2010).
The Public's Right to Health: When Patient Rights Threaten the Commons, 86 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1335 (2009).
Cooperative Federalism and Health Care Reform: The Medicare Part D "Clawback" Example, 1 St. Louis Univ .J. Health L. & Pol'y 79 (2007).
Failure to Connect: The Massachusetts Plan for individual Health Insurance, 55 Kan L. Rev. 1283 (2007).
Beyond Compensation: Using Torts to Promote Public Health, 10 J. Health Care L. & Pol'y 27 (2007).
Lessons from Katrina: Response, Recovery, and the Public Health Infrastructure, 10 Depaul J. Health Care L. 251 (2007).
After the Catastrophe: Disaster Relief for Hospitals, 85 N.C. L. Rev. 223 - 300 (2006).
Gauging the Cost of Loopholes: Health Care Pricing and Medicare Regulation in the Post-Enron Era, 40 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1215 (2005).
The New Economic Credentialing: Protecting Hospitals from Competition by Medical Staff Members, 65 J. Health L. 247 (2003).
BOOK CHAPTERS
States' Rights: Point/Counterpoint, DEBATES ON U.S. HEALTH CARE REFORM (Sage Publications, Wendy E. Parmet, ed., forthcoming 2011).
Medical-Legal Partnership: Three Voices from the Law School Clinic, VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIVE LAW TEACHING: A CRITICAL READER 337 (Carolina Academic Press, 2011) (with MaryBeth Musumeci & Brutrinia D. Arellano).
Tort Litigation for the Public's Health, RECONSIDERING LAW AND POLICY DEBATES: A PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE 187 (Cambridge Univ. Press, John G. Culhane, ed., 2010).
Beyond Compensation: Using Torts to Promote Public Health, PUBLIC HEALTH: ENFORCEMENT AND LAW 43 (Icfai Univ. Press, A. Sabitha ed., 2008).
BOOK REVIEWS
Populations, Public Health, and the Law, by Wendy E. Parmet (Georgetown Univ. Press 2009), 30 J. Legal Med. 427 (2009).
Public Health Law for a Brave New World: Book Review, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, by Lawrence O. Gostin (University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2d ed., 2008), 9 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol'y 181 (2009).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
The Role of States in Federal Health Care Reform, 20 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 181 (2011).
Rhetorical Federalism: The Role of State Resistance in Health Care Decisionmaking, J.L. Med. & Ethics 73 (2011) (symposium on Using Law, Policy, and Research to Improve the Public's Health).
What I Talk About When I Talk about Health Law, 18 Annals Health L. 9 (2010) (special edition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy, Loyola University Chicago School of Law).
Right to Experimental Treatment: FDA New Drug Approval, Constitutional Rights, and the Public's Health, 37 J.L. Med. & Ethics 269 (2009) (symposium on Pharmaceutical Innovation: Law & the Public's Health).
Teaching Sicko, "Teaching Health Law" column, 37 J.L. Med. & Ethics 139 (2009).
Loopholes: Opportunity, Responsibility, or Liability? "The Ethical Health Lawyer" column, 35 J.L. Med. & Ethics 320 (2007).
Is It Worth the Trouble? The New Policy on Dissemination of Information on Off-Label Use Under the Food and Drug Modernization Act, 54 Food & Drug L.J. 645 (1999).
Note, The Newly Found "Compassion" for Sexually Violent Predators: Civil Commitment and the Right to Treatment in the Wake of Kansas v. Hendricks, 32 Ga. L. Rev. 1261 (1998).
PROCEEDINGS
Symposium on Public Health Reform: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Implications for the Public's Health, 39 J.L. Med. & Ethics 312 (Invited Guest Editor) (2011).
Faculty Convenor, Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium: The Role of States in Federal Health Care Reform, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, KS, February 11, 2011.
Faculty Convenor, Kansas Law Review Symposium: The Massachusetts Plan and the Future of Universal Coverage, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, KS, Nov. 10, 2006.
Brief of Professors and Practitioners of Health Law as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs, States of Texas, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, and New Jersey v. Michael Leavitt, 547 U.S. 1204 (2006), (No. 06-135) original, (cert. denied, June 19, 2006).
Contact Information
University of Georgia School of Law 305 Rusk Hall Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-4309
Fax: (706) 542-7404
Email: weeksleo@uga.edu
Administrative Support
Shawn Lanphere
Phone: (706) 542-9357
Email: shawlan@uga.edu