Associate Professor of LawElizabeth Weeks joined the KU law faculty in 2004. She is a summa cum laude graduate of The University of Georgia School of Law, where she was a visiting professor in 2003, teaching Health Care Financing and Public Health Law. Before teaching, she practiced health law with Vinson & Elkins LLP, in Houston, Texas, and served as a law clerk for Judge Jacques L. Wiener Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips of the Supreme Court of Texas. She received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University and worked as a psychiatric social worker in Chicago, Illinois before attending law school. Her research interests include health care financing and regulation, public health, and disaster preparedness. She coordinated the Kansas Law Review Symposium on "The Massachusetts Plan and the Future of Universal Coverage" in November 2006.
"Failure to Connect: The Massachusetts Plan for Individual Health Insurance," 55 Kansas Law Review 1283 (2007); "After the Catastrophe: Disaster Relief for Hospitals," 85 North Carolina Law Review 223 (2006); "Gauging the Cost of Loopholes: Health Care Pricing and Medicare Regulation in the Post-Enron Era, 40" Wake Forest Law Review 1215 (2005)
Curriculum Vitae with Complete Publications List
Health care financing and regulation, health care reform, public health law
J.D. 1999, University of Georgia, Editor in Chief, Georgia Law Review; B.A. 1993, Columbia University.
Texas, 2000
Clerk, Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1999-2000; Clerk, Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips, Supreme Court of Texas, 2000-01; Associate, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Health Industry Group, 2001-03; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Georgia School of Law, 2003-04; Associate Professor, Kansas since 2004; Visiting Associate Professor, University of the Pacific-McGeorge School of Law, 2005-06.
Order of the Coif; American Health Lawyers Association; American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics; American Public Health Association; AALS Sections on Law & Medicine, Civil Rights, and Law & Social Sciences.
