Jeremy Pilaar is the Executive Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, one of the preeminent health law and policy centers in the country, and the first of its kind to focus on the intersection of law and the governance, practice, and business of health care.
Before joining Yale, Pilaar served as Lead Deputy County Counsel for the County of Santa Clara Health System, the second-largest public health care system in California, which counts an annual budget of nearly $5 billion and includes four hospitals and 15 clinics. In that role, he oversaw the team of attorneys that provides legal advice to the system’s executive leaders on all aspects of hospital and clinic operations, including finance and reimbursement, regulatory compliance, care quality and safety, and patient privacy.
Pilaar previously worked as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County’s Health Consumer Center, where he represented low-income people wrongly denied health care coverage and disability benefits; as an associate at plaintiff-side law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Berstein, where he litigated antitrust class actions against pharmaceutical corporations on behalf of public hospitals; as the SFALP Fellow at Yale Law School and the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where he managed the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project, one of the country’s top local government law clinics, and fought to strengthen health care access; and as a research officer at the University of Oxford’s European Studies Centre, where he conducted comparative research on health care system reforms across Europe.
Pilaar has published widely at the intersection of law and public policy, including in the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Yale Law and Policy Review, the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, the International Journal of Public Administration, the Michigan Law Review Online, and the Journal of Law and Policy. His work has also been featured in popular outlets such as the Law and Political Economy Blog and CNBC.
Pilaar holds a B.A. in political economy from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.Phil. in comparative social policy from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
