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, “Is the Endowment for Us?” Northwestern University Law Rev. (forthcoming).
- Beckman, Mary & Jill R. Horwitz, “Back to Basics: Private Equity and the Need for Rules and Values in Health Care,” American J. of Law and Equality (forthcoming).
- Horwitz, Jill, Neil S. Wegner, David P. Powell, Jose J. Escarce, Lee A. Jennings, Li-Jung Liang, Punam Parikh, & David S. Zingmond, “Tort Immunity and Nursing Home Staffing,” JAMA Health Forum 7 (June 1, 2026):e 261534.
- Horwitz, Jill, “The U.S. System: Public or Private” in Proceedings: Health Care: Public, Private, or Non-Profit, eds. Claudio Di Gregorio and Paolo Sommaggio, Padova University Press (in press).
- Aprill, Ellen P. and Jill R. Horwitz, “Fiduciaries, Constituencies, and the Duty of Loyalty in Modern Nonprofits,” Nonprofit Policy Forum 17(1-2): 71-97 (2026).
- Horwitz, Jill, Austin Nichols, Anthony Yu, Carried Colla, & David Cutler, “Technology Regulation Reconsidered: The Effects of Certificate of Need on the Quantity and Quality of Diagnostic Imaging,” Journal of Health Economics, (2025); Previous Version NBER Working Paper 32143 (2024).
- Mary Beckman and Jill Horwitz, “The Steward Debacle: Legal and Ethical Risks of the New Breed of Health Care For-Profits,” Health Affairs Forefront, (September 5, 2025). https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/steward-debacle-legal-and-ethical-risks-new-breed-health-care-profits
- Watson, Tatum, Jill Horwitz, Carrie Fry, John Graves, Poster: Network Gaps: Examining Essential Community Provider Coverage in ACA Marketplace Plans, Academy Health (June 2025).
- Wyant, Victoria, Jill Horwitz, Nicole Ober, Shane Belin, Hailey Bulls, Yael Schenker, Lindsay Sabik, Poster: Temporal Trends and Regional Variations in Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Query Exceptions: Implications for Opioid Access and Pain Management, Academy Health (June 2025).
- Horwitz, Jill “Private Health Care in the United States and the Rise of Private Equity,” 18(1) University of St. Thomas Law School Journal of Law and Public Policy 27-51 (2024, published 2025).
- Horwitz, Jill, Alberto DeDiego Carreras, & Dan Rodriguez, “Pandemic Harms and Private Law’s Limits: A Proposal for Tort Replacement,” in I. Glenn Cohen, Susannah Baruch, Wendy Netter Epstein, Christopher Robertson, & Carmel Shachar eds., Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway, Cambridge University Press 96-107 (2025).
- Horwitz, Jill R., “Threatening Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exemption: A Better Path Forward,” J. Amer. Med Assoc., (Jan 18, 2024) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2814254
- Aprill, Ellen P., Rose Chan Loui, & Jill R. Horwitz, “Board Control of a Charity's Subsidiaries: The Saga of OpenAI,” 182 Tax Notes (February 28, 2024). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4720202
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