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
Jill Horwitz is the David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine and the Founding Faculty Director of the Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits. Horwitz is also Professor of Public Affairs (by courtesy) at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Among other affiliations, she is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance, a Member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Board of Advisors at the New York University National Center for Philanthropy and the Law.
As the Reporter for the American Law Institute Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations, Horwitz led the ALI’s first Restatement on the subject. Her extensive body of scholarship has won many awards, particularly her scholarship on the role of nonprofit ownership in the healthcare industry. She was recently awarded the Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer in the Academic category for distinguished academic achievement in the nonprofit sector by the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the ABA’s Business Law Section.
Horwitz teaches several courses in the nonprofit field. Most recently, she developed and taught a survey course on Nonprofit Law and Policy. She taught a clinical course for students to work on the first American Law Institute Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations.
Horwitz was the Vice Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life at the School of Law for the academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21. She is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria Department of Economics in British Columbia, Canada. Prior to joining UCLA in 2012, she was Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, where she was the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law and Co-Director of Law and Economics. She also held joint appointments at Michigan with the School of Public Health and the Ford School of Public Policy.
Professor Horwitz received her B.A. with honors from Northwestern University. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy, a J.D. magna cum laude, and a Ph.D. in health policy, all from Harvard University. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge Norman Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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).
