Jennifer Dunn
Adjunct Professor Jennifer Templeton Dunn is the Executive Director of the UCSF/Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy. Prior to joining UC Hastings, she served as the Law & Policy Advisor at UCSF's Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health where she worked to ensure that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence. Licensed in California and New York, she began her legal career at a plaintiffs' class action law firm, where she litigated health care and civil rights cases in state and federal courts throughout the country.
Professor Dunn was appointed as an adjunct at UC Hastings in the Fall of 2010, and previously taught Women's Health and the Law as a Lecturer at UC Berkeley Law. Throughout her career, Professor Dunn has remained an unwavering champion of women's rights and fought for accessible, affordable health care and the elimination of discrimination. Her recent work and research focuses on the history and current implications of "physician-only" laws; the use (and misuse) of science in determining state and national health policy; the implications of forced and "elective" cesareans on maternal morbidity and personal autonomy; and the development of the Medical-Legal Handbook on Abortion Care in California. Her current projects include launching the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium and developing a reproductive health and justice seminar and lecture series at UC Hastings.