Wendy Netter Epstein joined the DePaul faculty as an assistant professor in 2013 and was promoted to associate professor in 2015. She is also the Faculty Director of DePaul's Jaharis Health Law Institute. Her teaching and research interests focus on health care law and policy, contracts, and commercial law. Her scholarship bridges the divide between theory and practice and utilizes an interdisciplinary approach. She draws on her personal experience as a partner at a large law firm and considers the application of theory to real world scenarios, focusing on mismatches between theory and practice. Professor Epstein’s work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review; Emory Law Journal; Washington Law Review; Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics; Cardozo Law Review; and Case Western Reserve Law Review.

Professor Epstein received her BA from the University of Illinois, and her JD from Harvard Law School, where she was editor in chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Recent Developments), executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and co-authored an Internet privacy course for Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Prior to coming to DePaul, Professor Epstein clerked for the Hon. Michael Daly Hawkins, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and was a partner in commercial litigation at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. In 2011, she was selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers magazine's Rising Stars edition. From 2011 to 2013, Professor Epstein was a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law.