Lauren R. Roth

Professor Lauren Roth joined the Haub Law faculty in 2025. Her teaching and research interests include health law and policy, business law, fiduciary law, and employee benefits. Professor Roth’s scholarship focuses on the role of the government, business, and employers in American health and social welfare and how to promote equal access to health care. She has a particular interest in the overlap between public and private programs in the delivery of health care in the United States. Her research reflects an interdisciplinary approach and utilizes a range of methodological tools, including quantitative methods.

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, 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 explored conflicts of interest for insurance brokers who sell Medicare Advantage plans and how states can protect beneficiaries. In 2025, she is serving as Secretary of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care.

Prior to joining Haub Law, Professor Roth was on the faculty at Touro University, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, teaching business and health law courses. She was also Associate Director of the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law. Professor Roth holds a JD from Harvard Law School, a PhD from Columbia University in political science, and a BA from George Washington University.

• BA, George Washington University
• JD, Harvard Law School
• PhD, Columbia University

• Contracts LAW 601
• Corporations and Partnerships LAW 745
• Health Law in America LAW 867

View all of Professor Roth’s publications on SSRN.

Cause of Death?—It’s probably not what’s reported on the death certificate, Lewis & Clark L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)

“Abandoning Fiduciaries in Health Care,” in Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, I. Glenn Cohen, Susannah Baruch, Wendy Netter Epstein, Christopher Robertson & Carmel Shachar, eds., 2025).

Sanitation: Reducing the Administrative State’s Control over Public Health, 75 Rutgers L. Rev. 777 (2023).

Redefining “Medical Care”, 27 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 65 (2017).

Reproductive Selection Bias, 27 Health Matrix 263 (2017).

The Collective Fiduciary, 94 Neb. L. Rev. 511 (2015).

Overvaluing Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance, 63 U. Kan. L. Rev. 633 (2015).

A Failure to Supervise: How the Bureaucracy and the Courts Abandoned Their Intended Roles under ERISA, 34 Pace L. Rev. 216 (2014).

• Principal Investigator, State Regulation of Medicare Brokers, The Commonwealth Fund (2024-2025)
• Associate Director and Acting Assistant Professor, NYU School of Law Lawyering Program

• Health Law Scholar, Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME)

Health Law, Health Policy, Health Care Financing, Health Care Delivery, Public Health, Fiduciary Law, Fiduciary Duties, Employee Benefits, Politics of Health