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Leah R. Fowler
Assistant Professor of Law
Biography
B.S., Georgetown University
J.D., University of Houston Law Center
M.P.H., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Leah Fowler is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Her scholarship examines how consumer technologies, digital platforms, and private law reshape health-related relationships, information, and risk. Her recent work focuses particularly on the increasingly porous boundary between healthcare and consumer wellness markets, including social media influence, digital health technologies, health misinformation, and biohacking and human enhancement.
Her scholarship has appeared in the Boston College Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and Alabama Law Review, as well as in numerous specialty journals in health law and technology and leading interdisciplinary journals in health, medicine, and bioethics. She teaches Contracts, Public Health Law, and a writing seminar on Health & Technology.
Professor Fowler joined the Law Center in 2018 as a Research Assistant Professor and Research Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute and joined the tenure-track faculty in 2024. Before entering academia, she served as Health Policy Program Manager at Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy, where she remains a Health Policy Scholar, and practiced law as a personal injury attorney.
J.D., University of Houston Law Center
M.P.H., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Leah Fowler is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Her scholarship examines how consumer technologies, digital platforms, and private law reshape health-related relationships, information, and risk. Her recent work focuses particularly on the increasingly porous boundary between healthcare and consumer wellness markets, including social media influence, digital health technologies, health misinformation, and biohacking and human enhancement.
Her scholarship has appeared in the Boston College Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and Alabama Law Review, as well as in numerous specialty journals in health law and technology and leading interdisciplinary journals in health, medicine, and bioethics. She teaches Contracts, Public Health Law, and a writing seminar on Health & Technology.
Professor Fowler joined the Law Center in 2018 as a Research Assistant Professor and Research Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute and joined the tenure-track faculty in 2024. Before entering academia, she served as Health Policy Program Manager at Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy, where she remains a Health Policy Scholar, and practiced law as a personal injury attorney.
