Solomon Center Scholars Appointed to Professorships Around the Country

Four current and former fellows of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School have been appointed to professorships at leading universities across the United States.

Blake N. Shultz

Blake N. Shultz ’21, currently an associate research scholar at the Solomon Center, will join Vanderbilt University as an assistant professor of health policy and Vanderbilt University Medical Center as an assistant professor of emergency medicine this fall. He will also serve as an Emergency Medicine Physician at the Nashville Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Shultz completed his residency at Mass General Brigham and has held a wide array of health law and policy roles, having served as a health policy fellow for MassHealth, Massachusetts’ combined Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program, and as an advisor to presidential, gubernatorial, and mayoral campaigns on health policy. He spent four years litigating with the Veterans Legal Services Clinic and worked as a summer associate with Ropes & Gray LLP and the Health Care Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.

In the years since he first joined the Solomon Center as a student fellow, Shultz has published dozens of articles in top law reviews, peer-reviewed journals, and popular outlets — from the Yale Law Journal to JAMA, Academic Medicine, and Health Affairs Forefront — on topics ranging from firearm injury prevention to racial disparities in surgical care and the causes and consequences of medical debt.

Asees Bhasin

Asees Bhasin, who was a senior research fellow at the Solomon Center from 2021 to 2023, will join the faculty at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, as an assistant professor this fall. She was most recently a visiting assistant professor of law and Donald Gaines Murray Fellow at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

Bhasin’s research focuses on the intersection of critical evidence law, race and the law, reproductive justice, and health law. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, Indiana Health Law Review, and North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, among other publications.

Bhasin began her legal career as a Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, D.C., where her advocacy centered on reproductive rights, as well as maternal and infant health.

Megan S. Wright

Megan S. Wright ’16, a 2016–18 Solomon Center research fellow, and now a senior adviser to the Center’s Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI) Project at Yale, will join the faculty at Florida State University College of Law as a professor of law this fall. She was most recently a professor of law, medicine, sociology, and bioethics at Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State College of Medicine.

Wright’s research concerns the intersection of medical decision making, disability, and private law. She has published extensively in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Bioethics, JAMA Internal Medicine, the Hastings Center Report, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Boston College Law Review, and the American Journal of Law & Medicine, among many other publications.

Wright is currently a co-investigator, alongside Joseph J. Fins and Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, on a nearly $2 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant titled “Post-trial Access, Clinical Care, Psychosocial Support, and Scientific Progress in Experimental Deep Brain Stimulation Research.”

Ximena Benavides

Ximena Benavides ’06 LLM, ’22 JSD, a Solomon Center student alumna and former graduate affiliate and assistant professor of legal studies at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business, joined the University of Miami Herbert Business School as an assistant professor of business law in June 2026.

At Yale, in addition to her time with the Solomon Center, Benavides was a Leadership in Global Health Fellow at the Yale Institute for Global Health, where she worked with the GAVI vaccine alliance on the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative; an affiliate researcher with the Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency (CRRIT), an interdisciplinary initiative conducting strategic research to ensure access to quality and safe medicine; and a resident fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.

Her scholarship has been published in Harvard’s Health and Human Rights journal, the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law, as well as peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her latest work, forthcoming in the Colorado Law Review, proposes reforms to decrease barriers to broad-based access to the benefits of life sciences innovation.

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.