Rate My Professor Abbe Gluck

Abbe R. Gluck is the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, where she also holds secondary appointments as Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. She earned her B.A. summa cum laude in English and International Studies from Yale University in 1996 and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000. Following law school, she clerked for Chief Judge Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. Her career includes faculty positions at Columbia Law School (2008-2012) and Yale Law School since 2012, where she founded the Medical Legal Partnership Program and the Elder Law Project. Prior to academia, she held senior roles in government, including Special Counsel to the President and to the White House COVID-19 Response Team in the Biden Administration (2020-2021), special counsel and senior advisor to the New Jersey Attorney General under Governor Jon Corzine (2007-2008), and various positions in New York City government under Mayor Michael Bloomberg (2004-2006). She practiced briefly at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (2001-2002).

Gluck is an expert in health law, federalism, legislation, civil procedure, and state courts. Her scholarship, published in leading journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, and Stanford Law Review, includes pioneering empirical studies on the congressional lawmaking process (Stanford Law Review, 2013), state implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Stanford Law Review, 2017), multidistrict litigation, unpublished opinions, gun violence, and the opioid crisis. Key books include The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America (with Zeke Emanuel, 2020), A New Deal for Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War (with Charles Fuchs, 2021), and Law and the 100-Year Life (edited, 2025). She is the co-author of a leading Legislation casebook. Recognized as one of the most-cited scholars in public law and statutory interpretation, Gluck received Yale Law School’s Teaching Award in 2015 and the Eisenberg Prize in 2024. She serves as an elected member and Council member of the American Law Institute, Chair of the Health Law Committee of the Uniform Law Commission, and Chair of the Fund for Modern Courts (as of 2026). She is chair emerita of the AALS Section on Legislation and the Law of the Political Process.