She is the Director of the Health Law Institute and the Center for the Study of Race and Bioethics. In 2002 she was a visiting scholar at Berkeley School of Law in the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Her primary research interests are tort theory, property relationships in the body, bioethics, and biotechnology. Prior to joining DePaul, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, conducting research on the antebellum politics of sex and law. Her op-ed commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, and Chicago Sun Times.