Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Health Law and Policy Program
- A.B. Harvard College, 1999
- J.D. Harvard Law School, 2003
- M.P.H. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009
Lindsay F. Wiley is a professor of law and Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Program at UCLA Law where she teaches torts and various health law courses. Her research focuses on access to health care and healthy living and working conditions in the U.S. and globally. She is particularly interested in the law and ethics of governmental and private institutional powers and duties to protect and promote the public’s health. She is the author of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint and Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (with Lawrence O. Gostin) and Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten (with Seema Mohapatra).
Professor Wiley serves as a consultant to the Ethics Committee of the California Department of Public Health and as the U.S. Rapporteur for the Lex-Atlas Covid-19 Project, a global project comparing responses to Covid-19. She has served as a member of and consultant to committees convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine related to public health emergency response and federal communicable disease control powers.
She is the current chair of the Board of Directors of ChangeLab Solutions, LLC, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of law and policy to advance health equity. She has previously served as President of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, and as a member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a joint standing committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology Law.
Professor Wiley has held positions at American University Washington College of Law, the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, the Center for Law and the Public's Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman LLC in Baltimore, MD.