Abbe Gluck Joins Board of NYC Bar Association
ALI Council member Abbe R. Gluck, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and faculty director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, has been selected as a new member of the board of the New York City Bar Association, its leadership body. Gluck is also a professor of internal medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and a professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale.
Gluck currently is the co-chair of the Subcommittee on Access to Justice for the City Bar’s Presidential Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence and a member of the City Bar’s Council on the Profession. She previously chaired the NYC Affairs Committee and was a member of the Federal Legislation Committee and the Inter-Committee Task Force on Charter Revision. Gluck also serves in leadership positions on the Uniform Law Commission, including as a member of the Scope Committee, chair of the Joint Editorial Board for Health Law, and chair of the study committee on anatomical gifts. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, where she serves on the ALI Council and is vice chair of the Fund for Modern Courts.
From November 2020 until November 2021, she served in the Biden administration as special counsel to the president. In that capacity, Gluck was the lead lawyer for the White House COVID-19 Response, first for the Biden-Harris Transition and then in the White House as Special Counsel to the White House COVID-19 Response Team. Gluck also simultaneously served as a member of the White House Counsel’s Office, where she was responsible for litigation and policy relating to health care, USDA, and Veterans Affairs.
The New York City Bar Association was founded in 1870 in response to concerns about corruption proliferating in the city’s justice system. With more than 20,000 members, it exists “to equip and mobilize a diverse legal profession to practice with excellence, promote reform of the law, and uphold the rule of law and access to justice in support of a fair society and the public interest in our community, our nation, and throughout the world,” according to its website.