Carmel Shachar

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. Former Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.

Why she matters here

Shachar is the clinical-law-school counterpart to the academic scholarship on health rights in the U.S. Her clinic litigates and advocates on the concrete problems of access, coverage and discrimination that a rights-based argument on physiological status would eventually have to translate into. She is a person to whom a specific case, well-documented, could be brought.