Leading Health Law and Technology Scholar Returns to Solomon Center
Claudia E. Haupt, an expert on free speech, health, and technology, has returned to Yale Law School this spring to teach public health law. Haupt, a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School and a senior visiting research scholar at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, is a professor of law and political science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a 2017–18 Research Fellow at the Solomon Center.
This past August, Haupt was named the faculty co-director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, which pursues innovative solutions to public health challenges in the United States and abroad. Her articles have been published in numerous top-tier law and medical journals, from the Yale Law Journal to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Long cited for her research at the intersection of public health and free expression, Haupt has emerged as a preeminent authority on the ethics and regulation of AI in health care. Her work addresses critical questions regarding AI-generated medical advice, including how this technology may impact privacy and the patient-physician relationship, as well as steps regulators can take to ensure patients are protected from medical disinformation. Haupt’s second book, “Professional Speech: Knowledge Communities and the Regulation of Expertise,” which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, will examine the interplay between generative AI and professional advice-giving in health care and beyond.
Haupt credits the Solomon Center with helping shape her interest in health law and policy and serving as a formative training ground early in her career. “My path into health law teaching began in 2017, when I co-taught a class at Yale on the opioid crisis,” Haupt said. “The following year, the Information Society Project and the Solomon Center co-hosted an interdisciplinary roundtable on the law and policy of AI in health care, which sparked my first article on health AI and professional advice, providing an early opportunity to examine the impact of the technology on the professional relationship.”
“We are delighted to welcome Claudia back to Yale this year,” said Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and Solomon Center Faculty Director Abbe R. Gluck ’00. “When she was here, she was instrumental in helping us launch our opioids project, and since then, her intellectual creativity and productivity have made her a leading voice on some of the most complex and salient issues in health care.”
About the Solomon Center
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is the first of its kind to focus on the intersection of law and the governance, practice, and business of health care. The Center brings together leading experts and practitioners from the public and private sectors to address cutting-edge questions of health law and policy, and to train the next generation of top health lawyers, industry leaders, policymakers, and academics.
