Elenore Wade
Associate Professor of Law
Biography
Professor Wade researches and writes about health, social welfare, and public finance.
Before joining the Rutgers Law faculty, Professor Wade was a Visiting Associate Professor and Friedman Fellow at The George Washington University Law School, teaching and practicing in the Prisoner & Reentry Clinic, an intensive litigation clinic representing clients in novel resentencing procedures. Before that, Professor Wade was a staff attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow at Bread for the City, a full-service community medical, dental, and legal clinic and food bank in Washington, D.C.
Professor Wade holds a J.D. and M.A. from The George Washington University and a B.S. from Eastern Michigan University.
Publications
Care After Insurance, forthcoming in J.L. & Health, vol. 40, issue 1 (2026)
Private Control in Medicare’s Off-Label Drug Coverage, 57 Ariz. St. L.J. 1141 (2026)
The Uptake Puzzle in Expungement of Criminal Records, with Jessica K. Steinberg, 100 Ind. L.J. 999 (2025)
The Undeserving Poor and the Marketization of Medicaid, 72 Buff. L. Rev. 875 (2025)
Predatory Decarceration, 74 Duke L.J. Online 29 (2024)
Extractive Welfare: Medicaid Statutory Recovery Formulas After Gallardo v. Marstiller, 58 Richmond L. Rev. 459 (2024)
Health Injustice in the Laboratories of Democracy, 29 Geo. J. Pov. L. & Pol'y 177 (2022)