As both a practicing attorney and as a legal educator, Alice Noble’s career has been focused on issues of health law and policy. She is an expert on health law,and has written extensively on medical liability as well as the Affordable Care Act. She co-authored the recently published Medical Liability in a Nut Shell (M. Boumil and A. Noble; West 2024). She also co-authored a treatise on the Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform: Law and Practice (M. Chirba, A. Noble, M. Maddigan; Lexis/Matthew Bender 2013), which provides a section by section analysis of statutory and regulatory compliance obligations under the Affordable Care Act. Noble holds a law degree from Villanova University School of Law and a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health. In addition to teaching at Brandeis University and Boston College Law School, she has taught numerous courses at Harvard School of Public Health and Tufts Medical School. Courses taught include Genetics, Law, and Social Policy, Health Law and Ethics, Health Law and Policy, Advanced Legal Writing, Law and Public Health, Managed Care Law and Regulation, among others. Noble was a fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Researcher at The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. She has a number of peer-reviewed publications on topics such as genetic technology, law and ethics; medical malpractice; managed care; and hospital law. She is a contributor to the Health Affairs Blog and Health Law Professors Blog. Noble has been an invited speaker on various matters, including national health care reform.
