David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine
B.A. Northwestern University, 1988
M.P.P. Harvard University, 1994
J.D. Harvard University, 1997
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2002
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Jill provides intellectual leadership to the Center. She is the Trobman Family Innovation Professor, Pritzker School of Law and a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northwestern University, she was the David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine at UCLA School of Law and Professor of Public Affairs (by courtesy) at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Jill also served as the Vice Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life at the UCLA School of Law for the academic years 2019-2021.
As the Reporter for the American Law Institute Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations, Jill led the ALI’s first Restatement on the subject. Among other affiliations, she is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance, a Member of the American Law Institute, and has been chair and a member of the Board of Advisors at the New York University National Center for Philanthropy and the Law. She was recently honored with the Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer, Academic Award (2023), by the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.
Jill earned her B.A. from Northwestern University and holds a master’s degree in Public Policy, a J.D., and a Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University.
Recent Publications:
Horwitz, Jill & Austin Nichols, “Hospital Service Offerings (Still) Differ Substantially by Ownership Type,” & Research Note, Health Affairs 41(3):331-340 (2022).
Horwitz, Jill (Reporter), American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law, First, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations (2021).
Horwitz, Jill, “Charitable Nonprofits and the Business of Health Care,” in eds. Walter Powell & Patricia Bromley, The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook 3d, Stanford University Press, 413-444 & 775-785 (2020).
Fei, Fan, James Hines, Jr., Jill Horwitz, “Are PILOTs Property Taxes for Nonprofits?” J. of Urban Economics, 94:109–23 (2016). See also NBER WP 21088.
Horwitz, Jill, “Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations and the Law” in I. Glenn Cohen, Allison K. Hoff man, & William M. Sage eds., The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Healthcare Law, Oxford University Press, 535-55(2016).
Culley, Rachel & Jill Horwitz, “Profits v. Purpose: Hybrid Companies and the Charitable Dollar” in Edward Parson ed., A Subtle Balance: Expertise, Evidence, and Democracy in Public Policy and Governance, McGill-Queen’s Univ Press, 158-82 (2015).
