Biography

Benjamin Sundholm is a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School. His research focuses on health law, tort theory, and philosophy of law. He is interested in exploring revisions to private law doctrines, such as privacy, needed in response to the increasingly large role played by data and technology in modern health care and medicine. 

Before joining Tulane, Sundholm was a Fellow of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. He earned his B.A. cum laude from Bethel University, his M.A. in philosophy from Georgetown University, and his J.D. cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an articles editor for The Georgetown Law Journal. After law school, he worked as an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.