Professor Zack Buck serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Development at UT Law.

He specializes in health law, and 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 corporatization of American medicine, the regulation of pharmaceutical drug prices and hospitals, and the intersection between healthcare finance and medical quality.

His work has been published in the California Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Ohio State Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and Florida State Law Review, among others. Buck has also been quoted in national outlets such as CNN, USA Today, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times, and is a frequent contributor to the online journal, Jotwell.

Since joining the faculty in 2016, Professor Buck has won student-selected awards for his teaching, recognized both as the College of Law’s teacher of the year with the 2019 Harold Warner Outstanding Teacher Award, and the 2023 Outstanding Teacher as part of the Physician Executive MBA Program at the Haslam College of Business. He has had his scholarship recognized by receiving the Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence (2016), the Wilkinson Junior Research Professorship (2017), the John Reginald Hill Faculty Scholar Award (2022), and the Carden Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship (2023). He was also the recipient of the 2019 Forrest W. Lacy Award for outstanding contributions to the UT Law moot court program.

Professor Buck holds a BA in Political Science and Journalism from Miami University (OH), a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He has taught at Mercer University School of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law, and at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and he formerly practiced complex commercial litigation at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago.

• Education & Experience
• Publications

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

Curriculum Vitae

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Full list of SSRN scholarly papers