Gail Agrawal
Dean and Professor of LawSubjects: Health Care Law and Regulation, Professional Ethics, Torts
Phone: (785) 864-4531
E-mail: gagrawal@ku.edu
Profile
Gail Agrawal joined KU Law as its dean in July 2006. Prior to assuming the deanship, she was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina Law School, where she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Senior Associate Dean, and during the 2005-06 academic year, as Interim Dean. Dean Agrawal is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. She graduated first in her class summa cum laude from the Tulane School of Law, and was an articles editor on the Tulane Law Review. She also holds a Masters of Public Health in health systems from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She was elected to membership in Order of the Coif and Delta Omega, the honor society for public health. Following law school, Dean Agrawal served as a law clerk to Senior Judge John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and to Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the United States Supreme Court. Agrawal was a member of the New Orleans law firm of Monroe and Lemann and in-house counsel to Aetna Inc. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School and Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and as the W. M. Keck Visiting Professor of Law and Legal Ethics at the University of Michigan Law School. Dean Agrawal is the 14th and first female dean of the University of Kansas School of Law.
Representative Publications
"Tribute to Gene Nichol: Musings of an Associate Dean," 83 North Carolina Law Review 1419 (2005); "The Impact of State Managed Care Liability Statutes," 22 Health Affairs 138 (September/October 2003); "What If You Could Sue Your HMO?: Liability Beyond the ERISA Shield," 47 St. Louis U. L.J. 235 (symposium issue) (2003); "The Managed Care Revolution: A Prequel," 65 Law and Contemporary Problems 11 (symposium issue) (2003); "Resuscitating Professionalism: Self-Regulation in the Medical Marketplace," 66 Mo. L. Rev. 341 (2001); "The Challenge of Regulating Managed Care" (monograph) (University of Michigan Press) (2001); "Chicago Hope Meets the Chicago School," 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1793, (1998) (book review essay).
Research Interests
Health care delivery and financing and medical ethics.
Education
J.D., summa cum laude, Tulane Law School, 1983; M.P.H., Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1983; B.A., University of New Orleans, 1978.
Admitted
Louisiana 1986, Connecticut 1994
Career History
Associate (1986-1989) and Partner (1989-1993), Monroe & Lemann; Counsel, head of Medical Management in Law and Regulatory Affairs, Aetna Inc., 1993-1996; Visiting Professor, University of Michigan Law School, 1996-1997; Associate Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law, 1997-2001; Professor, 2001-2006; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, 2003-2004; Senior Associate Dean, 2004-2005; Interim Dean, 2005-2006; Dean, Kansas, 2006-present.
Member
Order of the Coif; American Law Institute; American Health Lawyers Association; ABA, Louisiana and Kansas bar associations; Chair, federal Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation.
