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B.A., Emory University
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law
LL.M., Harvard Law School

Professor Foley came to the FIU College of Law from Michigan State University, where she was a Professor of Law and an Adjunct Professor at the MSU College of Human Medicine.  She previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and spent several years on Capitol Hill as a health policy advisor, serving as Senior Legislative Aide to U.S. Congressman (now U.S. Senator) Ron Wyden (D-OR), Legislative Aide for the D.C. office of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, and a Legislative Aide for U.S. Congressman Michael Andrews (D-TX). 

Professor Foley’s research interest centers around the intersection of health care law and constitutional law.  Her first book, “Liberty for All:  Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality,” was published by Yale University Press in October 2006.  She is also the author of numerous law journal articles and op-eds, and is a frequent media commentator, having appeared on or been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, Detroit  News, National Law Journal, National Public Radio, Fox News, CNN and the BBC.  In 2005, Professor Foley was appointed to serves as a member of the Committee on Embryonic Stem Cell Guidelines of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Foley graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she was an Articles Editor of the Tennessee Law Review, inducted into Order of the Coif, and graduated first in her class.  She has a B.A. in History from Emory University and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.  She teaches constitutional law, civil procedure, and health care law. 

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