Health Law and Business Law Scholar Lauren Roth to Join Haub Law as Associate Professor

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is proud to announce that Lauren Roth, an accomplished scholar in health law and business law, will join the faculty as an Associate Professor of Law beginning in Fall 2025. Professor Roth will teach courses in corporations, contracts, and health law while also contributing her expertise and leadership to Haub Law’s Health Law and Policy Certificate program.

Currently an Assistant Professor of Law at Touro Law Center, Professor Roth brings a wealth of academic and professional experience to Haub Law.

Professor Roth’s teaching and research interests include health law, business law, fiduciary law, and employee benefits. She is a frequently published author, and her scholarship focuses on the role of the government and employers in American health and social welfare and how to promote equal access to healthcare. She has a particular interest in the overlap between public and private programs in the delivery of healthcare in the United States. Professor Roth’s research reflects an interdisciplinary approach and utilizes a range of methodological tools, including quantitative methods.

“The Haub Law community is thrilled to welcome Professor Roth, a distinguished academic in the health law field,” said Dean Horace E. Anderson, Jr. “Her research and scholarship involving health, social welfare, and equal access to healthcare will contribute greatly to Haub Law’s interdisciplinary approach to the law. Our students, particularly those pursuing our Health Law and Policy Certificate, will benefit tremendously from her leadership and expertise in the constantly evolving field.” In addition to teaching JD courses at Haub Law, Professor Roth will help guide the school’s Health Law and Policy Certificate programs. A leader in the health law field, Haub Law offers two options for its Advanced Certificate in Health Law and Policy – one for students enrolled in the School’s JD program and a second option for attorneys and non-attorney professionals looking for a flexible option to advance their careers. Professor Roth’s leadership will serve to bolster these programs even further.

In the last few years, Professor Roth has been selected to present her research at the University of Michigan Law School’s Junior Scholars Conference and Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference. She was also selected as a Health Law Scholar by the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME). In addition, she will be on research leave during the upcoming Spring 2025 semester because the Commonwealth Fund awarded her a grant to serve as Principal Investigator for a research project titled State Regulation of Medicare Brokers. Through this project, she will explore conflicts of interest for insurance brokers who sell supplemental Medicare plans, looking at how states can protect beneficiaries in light of the expansion of Medicare Advantage plans. In 2025, she will also serve as Secretary of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care.

“I am excited to join the Haub Law community as an Associate Professor of Law,” shared Professor Roth. “What attracted me to Haub Law are the synergies between its excellent environmental law program and the work I do studying healthcare and public health. The importance of that work will only grow in the coming years. I look forward to building on it in my role at Haub Law.”

Prior to joining Touro Law Center as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2022, Professor Roth was Associate Director of the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law and an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing at St. John’s University School of Law. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School, a PhD from Columbia University in Political Science, and a BA, summa cum laude, from George Washington University.