Susan Wolf

Susan Wolf is a Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy, Faegre Drinker Professor of Law, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Law School. She chairs the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and founded the Joint Degree Program in Law, Science & Technology.

• Education: Princeton University (A.B.), Yale Law School (J.D.), with graduate work at Harvard University

Her research focuses on health law, bioethics, law and science, and public policy, particularly in areas like end-of-life care, portable MRI technology, and biological time-stopping oversight. She has led groundbreaking projects such as the Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment (1987, 2013), and contributes to interdisciplinary research bridging law, medicine, and science.

Professor Wolf has received prestigious awards including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has secured grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and The Greenwall Foundation, and has served on panels like the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) and the American Bar Association Coordinating Group on Bioethics and the Law.