Rate My Professor Chinelo Diké-Minor

Chinelo Diké-Minor serves as Associate Professor of Law at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, having joined the faculty in January 2021. She teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, and a variety of health law subjects. Prior to her academic career, Diké-Minor was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama for eight years, where she served as the criminal division’s health care fraud coordinator, successfully prosecuting numerous health care fraud and opioid prescribing cases. She previously practiced civil and criminal litigation at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York City. Her judicial clerkships include service with the late Honorable Judge Mark Kravitz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and the late Honorable Rosemary Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Diké-Minor earned her BA from Wesleyan University and her JD from Yale Law School.

Diké-Minor’s research focuses on gaps in criminal health care fraud and abuse laws, as well as grand jury and right to counsel issues in criminal procedure. Her key publications include “Be Careful What You Wish For: An Overreliance on Telemedicine Could Harm Health Equity,” 33 Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences 137 (2024); “The Untold Story of the United States’ Anti-Kickback Laws,” 21 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 103 (2023); and “The Devil Made Me Do It: An Argument for Expanding the Anti-Kickback Statute to Cover Private Payers,” 56 Connecticut Law Review 91 (2023). Her scholarship has been cited in a published opinion by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Diké-Minor has received the Lightfoot, Franklin & White Faculty Scholarship Award (2025), the Harvey S. Jackson Excellence in Teaching Award for upper-level courses (2021-22), Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General Awards for Excellence in Fighting Fraud, Waste and Abuse (2022 and 2024), the U.S. Attorney’s Office Special Act Award for Sustained High-Level Performance (2019), and the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association’s Special Investigative Resource and Intelligence System Investigation of the Year Award (2017). She was selected as a Health Law Scholar for the 2022 Annual Health Law Scholars Workshop.