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Renee M. Landers (she/her/hers)

Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Health and Biomedical Law Concentration and Master of Science in Law: Life Sciences program
Suffolk University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Renée M. Landers is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School and is the Faculty Director of the school’s Health and Biomedical Law Concentration and the Master of Science in Law Life Sciences program. She teaches administrative law, constitutional law, health law, and privacy law. For the National Academy of Social Insurance she helped complete reports Examining Approaches to Expanding Medicare Eligibility: Key Design Options and Implications and Assuring Economic Security for the 21st Century. She was a member of the National academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Study Committee that issued a report on equity in the organ transplantation system in 2022. In addition to health care, Landers has written on diversity in the legal profession and privacy and is a media commentator on developments in constitutional law, health law, and administrative law. She has worked in private practice and served as Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration.


Professor Landers currently is a Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Director and former Board Chair of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. She served as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and in 2021 she was elected a Senior Fellow of the Section. Professor Landers was co-winner of Suffolk Law’s Professor Catherine T. Judge Teaching and Service Award in March 2022. She is a member of the American Law Institute and has received awards from Radcliffe College, Boston College Law School, Harvard College, the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, the Boston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Women’s Network, and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. President of the Boston Bar Association in 2003-2004, she was the first woman of color and the first law professor to serve in that position.

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