Courses Taught

Health Law
Health Law & Policy Seminar

Profile

Professor Elizabeth Sepper is a health law scholar whose work explores the interaction of morality, professional ethics, and law in medicine. Her most recent article, forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, challenges the standard account of the role of conscience in health care delivery, which limits conscience to those medical providers who refuse to deliver controversial treatments.  She also has published in the areas of human rights, women’s rights, and international health law. Her articles have appeared in the Texas International Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, and New York University Law Review. She clerked for the Hon. Marjorie Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. and practiced at Human Rights Watch and NYU School of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.