Bio
Benjamin A. Barsky is Associate Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco, where he teaches Criminal Law and U.S. Healthcare System & the Law.
Professor Barsky’s research centers on health, inequality, and law — a domain he studies using different social scientific methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative. Of late, his work has investigated the U.S. health system’s enmeshment with criminal enforcement institutions, with a focus on policing, jail and prison health service delivery, and controlled substance law and policy. His award-winning research is or has been supported by the Commonwealth Fund, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Immediately before joining the UC Law San Francisco faculty, Professor Barsky was an Annual Fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and an Initiative Fellow at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, and a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University. Originally from Montréal, Québec, Professor Barsky became a naturalized U.S. citizen in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2015.
Education
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Harvard University
Ph.D. in Health Policy -
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
J.D. -
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Master of Bioethics -
Johns Hopkins University
B.A. in Public Health Studies and Psychological & Brain Sciences