Professor Kathleen Boozang teaches Hot Topics in Health Law and the Law of Death and Dying in the day and weekend divisions. Her most recent article, NIL Necessitates Shared Medical Decision· Making for Collete Athletes appeared at 35 Marquette Sports L Rev. 123 (2024). Her current project, entitled Post-Dobbs Decision-Making and Standard of Care for Children with Life Threatening/Limiting Conditions, seeks to understand the impact of new abortion regulation on the number of newborns born with life limiting conditions and the current standard of care and law governing parental decision- making on behalf of these children. Professor Boozang presented at Villanova Law School and the ASLME Health Law Teachers Conference on Decision-Making for Infants with Life Limiting Conditions in 2025. In addition to her scholarship and teaching, Professor Boozang contributes to efforts to improve the care available to people living with Sickle Cell Disease. She is also a regular participant in Seton Hall Law’s Healthcare Certificate Programs in the US, EU, Singapore and the Middle East.
Professor Carl Coleman teaches Public Health Law, Legal and Ethical Issues in Medicine, and Food Law. He is a prolific scholar whose recent work includes Harnessing the Power of System 1 Thinking: The FDA’s New Front-of-Package Labeling Rules, Food & Drug L.J. (2025), which critically examines the FDA’s proposal to require food manufacturers to prominently display interpretive information about saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars on the front of their products, and A World Health Organization Tool for Assessing Research Ethics Oversight Systems, Bull. World Health Org. (2025) (with Alireza Khadem, John C. Reeder, Hiiti B. Sillo, Rogerio Gaspar & Andreas Reis), which provides a comprehensive overview of a new WHO instrument to measure the quality of research ethics systems. He is currently collaborating with Professor Jennifer Pomeranz (NYU School of Global Public Health) on a textbook on Food Law and Policy, to be published by Carolina Academic Press in 2026. He presented a draft of his paper on front-of-package labeling at the Academy of Food Law & Policy in November 2024, and on cost effectiveness in medication coverage decisions at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in February 2025.
Professor Doron Dorfman teaches Health Care Access and Payment. An active inter-disciplinary scholar, his latest law review article, Third-Party Accommodations, 124 Michigan L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) challenges traditional thinking about disability accommodations as being limited to the relationship between two parties; it was selected for the 2025 Harvard-Yale-Standford Junior Faculty Forum. Dorfman explores the intersection of genetics and family law, and legislation prohibiting selection of embryos with impairments in his article, Selecting for Disability: How an Anecdote Can Inspire Regulation of Genetic Reproductive Technologies, 38 Harv. J. L. Tech. 441 (2025). In Preventive Medicine Stigma, 50 Am J. L Med 59 (2024), a follow up to his article Penalizing Prevention: The Paradoxical Legal Treatment of Preventive Medicine, 109 Cornell L. Rev. 311 (2024), Dorfman offers a new reading of the Braidwood case using the literature on stereotypes and stigma. Lastly, his article, Empirical Disability Legal Studies, published in the peer-reviewed journal, 20 Annual Rev. L. Social Sci. 255 (2024), discusses works that explore disability law critically via a disability studies lens as well as through quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. Professor Dorfman is a frequent contributor to the Bill of Health Blog at Harvard Law’s Petrie-Flom Center and is a contributing editor for the Equality Section of Jotwell.
Professor Jacob Elberg is the Faculty Director of the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law. As a former federal prosecutor, Professor Elberg is a frequent speaker throughout the country on issues related to health care fraud, waste and abuse. In the health law curriculum, he teaches Health Care Fraud and Corruption and Data Analytics. His latest work, Money Over Everything: Reimagining Health Care Enforcement, Missouri Law Review (forthcoming), details the Department of Justice’s singular focus on money as a way both to prioritize corporate health care enforcement actions and to create deterrence through corporate resolutions. In Threats to Health Care Fraud Enforcement from the US Supreme Court, Health Affairs Forefront (2025) with I. Glenn Cohen & Eli Y. Adashi, Professor Elberg discusses the impact of the US Supreme Court’s decision, rendering the use of the qui tam provisions of False Claims Act as unconstitutional, and its impact in prosecuting health care fraud cases. In Ain’t No Sunshine: Bringing Physician Conflicts Out of the Dark, 58 U. Rich. L. Rev. 285 (2024), Professor Elberg analyzes the Sunshine Act and ties its deficiencies to its failure to focus on the centrality of trust in the doctor-patient relationship.
Professor John Jacobi is a frequent speaker on issues addressing access to health care and health equity including HIV Clinical Update: Medicaid Funding Issues, Rutgers University School of Medical of Biomedical and Health Sciences; Wins and Losses: Regulatory Reforms for Integrated Behavioral Health, NJ Health Care Quality Institute; Medicaid funding for HIV and HVC Services and Outreach, in The Hepatitis C Elimination Symposium, North Jersey Community Research Initiative; and Public Health in Preventive Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Department of Medicine, Preventive Medicine Residency. He published Community Health Workers and the Dilemma of Integrated Care, 23 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol’y 145 (2024). He is Board Chair of North Jersey Community Research Institute, a public health and health services nonprofit in Newark, New Jersey, and is Board Vice-Chair of the Greater Newark Health Care Coalition, an organization comprising CEOs of Newark area hospitals, FQHCs and treatment centers, and representatives of government, academia, and advocacy groups. GHNCC advocates equitable health and social care for residents of the Newark, New Jersey area and acts as a convener of service providers, advocates, community groups and government entities in the region. He was appointed to a gubernatorial commission on Health Care Affordability and Transparency, where he serves on technical and policy committees. He also serves on advisory bodies guiding the implementation of New Jersey Medicaid’s housing initiatives through its §1115 Waiver program.
Professor Tara Ragone teaches Healthcare Access and Payment and is the advisor to student teams in the several health law competitions in which the Center competes. Her research continues to identify legal, regulatory, and policy pathways to improve access to meaningful, evidence-based, whole-person health care for our most vulnerable populations. Her policy work dovetails with and enriches Professor Ragone’s academic work and teaching. In spring 2025, she participated in an interdisciplinary Health Communication Collaboration Faculty Seminar, through which she engaged in an exploratory study assessing the accuracy of infant safe sleep information on social media platforms compared to the ABCs of Safe Sleep Guidelines. This work culminated in her presentation of Accuracy of Safe Sleep Information on Social Media at the Petersheim Academic Exposition at Seton Hall University with co-presenter Prof. Patrick Bernet on April 24, 2025. She also presented Legal Solutions to Combatting America’s Mental Health Crisis on a panel at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA on January 8, 2025. Professor Ragone was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of the AALS Section on Law and Mental Disability for 2025.
Anjali Deshmukh, M.D., J.D., Associate Professor of Law joins Seton Hall Law’s health law faculty to teach Food and Drug Law, Medical AI and Biotechnology Regulations, and Administrative Law. Prior to joining Seton Hall, Professor Deshmukh was an Assistant Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law. She is also a board-certified pediatrician. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching focuses on the impact of pharmaceutical law and regulatory policies on patient health outcomes, particularly for children. Professor Deshmukh draws on quantitative empirical methods in addition to normative and doctrinal analysis to understand judicial review and regulation of evolving technologies, including cell and gene therapies, regenerative medicine, and AI. Her research has or will appear in Cardozo Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Tennessee Law Review, Health Affairs, and Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics amongst others. In 2023, Professor Deshmukh was recognized as an American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics Health Law Scholar. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Deshmukh was a fellow at the Program on Regulation Therapeutics and the Law at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital and a pharmaceutical litigation associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosatti. She holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, an M.D. from Vanderbilt School of Medicine and an A.B. from Dartmouth College.
Amy Saji, J.D., Associate Professor of Law joins Seton Hall Law to launch a new Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) clinic, collaborating with healthcare providers to address legal barriers negatively impacting the health and well-being of families. Before joining Seton Hall Law, she served as a Supervising Attorney and Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic, an MLP at Georgetown Law. Prior to that, she was a special education attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy and provided holistic legal representation and advocacy for youth of color and students with disabilities. In this role, Professor Saji collaborated with MLPs at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale Child Study Center, and CT Children’s Medical Center, and co-supervised clinical interns in the UConn Child Advocacy Clinic. In 2024, Professor Saji received the Carolyn Golden Hebsgaard Award from Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity. Professor Saji earned her BA in Honors Political Science and her JD from UConn School of Law in six years through the Accelerated Program. Professor Saji earned her LLM in Advocacy with distinction from Georgetown Law.
