Taleed El-Sabawi

• Biography

  Taleed El-Sabawi is an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University and an affiliated Research Scholar with the Addiction & Public Policy Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at Georgetown Law Center.

  Professor El-Sabawi an interdisciplinary scholar, with a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Public Health, Health Services Management and Policy with a doctoral cognate in Political Science.

  Her area of expertise is in law, public health and policy, with a political expertise in addiction (harm reduction) and mental health policy, politics and law. Professor El-Sabawi has studied and written extensively on narrative discourse surrounding opioid overdose deaths; federal administrative regulation of potentially habit-forming substances; and health insurance parity.

  Professor El-Sabawi has provided is a member of the advisory circle of the North Carolina Urban Survivors Union, a chapter of the Urban Survivors Union, on the Board of Directors for Next Distro and frequently works alongside harm reduction activists and persons who use drugs advocating for policy reform.

   

• Degrees and Certifications

  Ph.D. Public Health, Health Services Management & Policy Cognate (Minor): Political Science, Quantitative Methods Interdisciplinary Specialization

  J.D., The University of Texas School of Law

  M.S., Public Health, The Ohio State University

  B.A., Psychology, magna cum laude, University of Southern California

   

• Selected publications
  • Jennifer Oliva and Taleed El-Sabawi, The “New” Drug War, 110 Virginia Law Review __ (forthcoming 2024).
  • Taleed El-Sabawi, Death by Withdrawal, 71 UCLA Law Review 2 (2024).
  • Amy Watson and Taleed El-Sabawi, Expansion of the police role in responding to mental health crises over the past 50 years: Driving factors, race inequities and the need to rebalance roles, 86 Law & Contemporary Problems 1 (2023).
  • Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer J. Carroll, and Morgan Godvin, Drug Induced Homicide Laws and False Beliefs about Drug Distributors: Three Myths that Are Leaving Prosecutors Misinformed, 60 American Criminal Law Review 1381 (2023).
  • Taleed El-Sabawi and Jennifer Oliva, The Influence of White Exceptionalism on Drug War Discourse, 94 Temple Law Review 649 (2022).
• Social Science Research Network
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• Recent courses taught

  Fall Term 2024 (current)

  • LEX8171 - Health Law: Advanced Topics