Alicia Gilbert began teaching at Cumberland School of Law in 2024. She teaches contracts, business organizations, and health law courses. Her research focuses on how regulations and business practices impact the provision of health care in rural and underserved communities. She was selected as a Health Law Scholar for the 2025 Annual Health Law Scholars Workshop co-sponsored by American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and the Saint Louis University School of Law Center for Health Law Studies. In addition to teaching, Gilbert also serves as counsel for the Tennessee Office of the Attorney General.
After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She then completed a post-clerkship Honors Fellowship with the Tennessee Office of the Solicitor General, where she split her time between appellate work and work within the health care division. She also worked in-house for a large, not-for-profit health system in Alabama, specializing in regulatory and transactional matters.
She was the first in her family to go to law school. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she graduated summa cum laude and as class valedictorian. During law school, she was executive editor of the Alabama Law Review and captain of the health care transactions team, Alabama Law’s first team to win the National Health Law Transactional Moot Court Competition at Loyola University. Among other awards, she was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Bench and Bar Legal Honors Society, and she earned the Dean’s Community Service Award.
In addition to practicing law, Gilbert is a board-certified registered dietitian.
Publications and Works-In-Progress
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Frenemies: Why the FTC Should Explore the Utility of State COPAs to Address Anticompetitive Consolidation in Healthcare, 85 Louisiana Law Review 51 (2024).
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340B: The Shoulder of Frankenstein’s Monster, Harvard Journal on Legislation Online (2023).
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Socially Distant Healthcare, 96 Tulane Law Review 423 (May 2022) (with Allyson Gold and Benjamin McMichael).
Teaching and Research Interests
- Health Law
Degrees and Certifications
- Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, The University of Alabama
- Bachelor of Science in Human Environmental Sciences (food and nutrition, honors), summa cum laude, The University of Alabama
Bar Admissions
- Alabama State Bar
- Tennessee State Bar
- U.S. Court of Appeals: Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court: Tennessee (Middle, Eastern)