Jennifer L. Herbst will receive the Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award at the CBA’s annual awards ceremony, Celebrate with the Stars, on Wednesday, April 3.
She is a Professor of Law & Medical Sciences at Quinnipiac University’s School of Law and Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine. Professor Herbst currently serves as a volunteer community member on the Adult and Pediatric Ethics Committees for Yale-New Haven Hospital and is a seminar leader in clinical ethics for the Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics at Yale. She has also served as a Fulbright Canada research chair in health law, policy, and ethics at the University of Ottawa; one of ten national fellows in the Future of Public Health Law Teaching program underwritten by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and as an Abraham L. Freedman fellow at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law.
Professor Herbst received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry/molecular biology from Dartmouth College, her law degree and master’s degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, her LL.M in legal education from Temple University, and soon expects to receive a certificate in theology and health care from Duke Divinity School in May 2025. Prior to joining the Quinnipiac faculty in 2011, she represented hospitals, health care practitioners, and pharmaceutical companies at a law firm in Philadelphia and helped coach the high school mock trial team at Franklin Learning Center.
Her work has been published by the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Hastings Center Report, the American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Legal Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, Public Health Reports, Temple Law Review, BMC Medical Ethics, and Health Matrix. Her current research projects include looking at the ethical and legal frameworks for informal caregivers making health care decisions for incapacitated patients and how to provide more and better clinical ethics support for our rural health care practitioners.
The Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award is presented to a distinguished CBA member who is a member of the faculty, a clinical instructor, or an adjunct instructor at UConn Law School, Quinnipiac Law School, Yale Law School, or Western New England Law School who has contributed greatly to the legal education of his or her colleagues.
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