Lindsay F. Wiley

Assistant Professor of Law

Office: Room 446
Phone: 202-274-4288
E-mail: vCard


Professor Wiley teaches torts, health law, and public health law. Her current research focuses on access to health care and healthy conditions in the U.S. and globally. She also works on various law and policy issues at the intersection of public health, food systems, and environmental change. Prior to joining the faculty at WCL, Professor Wiley was the Global Health Law Program Director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. She had also previously worked at the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics, and Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman LLC in Baltimore, MD. She received her AB and JD from Harvard, where she served on the Harvard Law Review, and her MPH from Johns Hopkins.



Areas of Specialization

  • Health Law
  • Public Health Law
  • Torts and Compensation Systems

Degrees & Universities

  • M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University
  • J.D., Harvard Law School
  • A.B, Harvard University

  • Selected Publications

    • Lindsay F. Wiley, Rethinking the New Public Health, 69 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 207 (2012).
    • Lindsay F. Wiley, Moving Global Health Law Upstream: A Critical Appraisal of Global Health Law as a Tool for Health Adaptation to Climate Change,, 22 Geo. Intl. Envtl. L. Rev. 439 (2010).