Carleen Zubrzycki

Carleen Zubrzycki is Florence Rogatz Visiting Associate Professor of Law  at Yale Law School and an associate professor of law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she teaches tort law, administrative law, and bioethics. Her research interests include medical privacy (especially in areas of normative contestation), tort law, and democratic theory. Her scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal forum, Yale Law & Policy Review, Alabama Law Journal, and other leading publications. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, among other media outlets, and cited in a federal regulation, state legislative hearings, and federal court.

Before joining the UConn faculty in 2021, Zubrzycki was a Climenko Fellow teaching at Harvard Law School. Previously, she worked in private practice at WilmerHale, where her work focused on Supreme Court and appellate litigation, including tort litigation arising out of the Sept. 11 attacks. She then served on the Civil Appellate staff of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2015 to 2019. While at the Department of Justice, Zubrzycki won division-wide awards for her pro bono advocacy for a domestic violence survivor and for her work on the Risk Corridors Affordable Care Act litigation. 

Zubrzycki is a graduate of Yale Law School and Yale College. She clerked for Judge Kim Wardlaw of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and for Judge Randolph Moss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.