Meighan Parker

Meighan Parker will join the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in the fall of 2024 as an assistant professor.

Parker comes to the School of Law after serving as a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught Legal Research & Writing. Before entering academia, Parker served as a managing associate at Sidley Austin and an associate at Ropes & Gray. Her practice primarily focused on a wide range of regulatory and compliance issues encountered by pharmaceutical and medical device companies regulated under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and related laws. While at Ropes & Gray, Parker also completed a legal secondment at Ginkgo Bioworks, where she worked closely with the company’s in-house counsel on regulatory compliance and transactional matters.

Parker’s research focuses on health law and policy, with an emphasis on the legal implications of novel telehealth and digital health technologies designed to democratize healthcare. More specifically, she studies the impact of these new technologies on the practice of medicine and access to care, especially in marginalized and vulnerable communities. Her scholarship includes an article in the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review titled “Come As You Are?: Democratizing Healthcare Through Black Church-Telehealth Initiatives.” She also coauthored a chapter in Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk and an article in the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Update magazine titled “Keeping Track of the Quacks: Drug and Device Enforcement in the COVID-19 Era.”

Parker earned her B.S. in biology cum laude from Spelman College and her Master of Theological Studies (focused on religion, ethics and politics) from the Harvard Divinity School. Afterward, she earned her J.D. cum laude from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she received the John England Award, served as captain of the Health Law Transactional Moot Court team and worked as a spring extern in the Special Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.