Bioethics, Health Law, Tort Law
J.D., 2009, University of Pennsylvania Law School
M.BE., 2009, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
B.A., 2006, Political Science and Journalism, Miami University
Professor Zack Buck specializes in health law.
His scholarship examines the enforcement of laws that affect health and health care in the United States. Most recently, his writing has focused on the future of the Affordable Care Act, the legal rules that govern overtreatment, the regulation of pharmaceutical drug prices, and the intersection between health care finance and medical quality.
Professor Buck is the author of more than 15 law review articles, and has published with the law reviews of California-Berkeley, North Carolina, Boston College, California-Davis, Ohio State, and Wake Forest, among others. Buck has also been quoted in national outlets such as CNN, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times, and is a frequent contributor to The Conversation and to the online journal, Jotwell.
Over his first six years at Tennessee, Buck has frequently been honored for his teaching, research, and service. Buck was recognized as UT Law’s teacher of the year with the 2019 Harold Warner Outstanding Teacher Award, has had his scholarship awarded through the Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence, the Wilkinson Junior Research Professorship, and the John Reginald Hill Faculty Scholar Award, and has won the Forrest W. Lacy Award for outstanding contributions to the UT Law moot court program.
Professor Buck previously taught at Mercer University School of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law, and at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and formerly practiced complex commercial litigation at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago.
Professor Buck holds a BA in Political Science and Journalism from Miami University (OH), a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. At UT Law, he teaches a bioethics and public health seminar, torts, health care finance and organization, health care regulation and quality, and health care fraud and abuse.
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