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Avery Fincher, a recent summa cum laude graduate of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, earned her B.S. in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies alongside a minor in Music Industry. She was a Keck School of Medicine Dean's List recipient for all semesters attended, and received the Academic Achievement Award Scholarship, among several other notable honors and graduation distinctions.
Working with Dr. Ans Irfan on projects related to institutional reform and climate literacy, Ms. Fincher also pursues research in healthcare delivery optimization and the integration of legal frameworks to advance public health outcomes.
Deeply passionate about the intersection of public health and law, she seeks to pursue a career in health law, guided by her ambition to address systemic inequities in healthcare delivery, public health, and environmental policy, as they directly reinforce one another.
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The Bench as Bottleneck: Redressing Judicial Overreach to Safeguard Environmental Legislation.
This collaboration comments on the Supreme Court’s recent interpretive posture— notably, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Corner Post, and West Virginia v. EPA— as a jurisprudential realignment that reallocates interpretive authority from administrative agencies to the judiciary, thereby constraining the federal government’s regulatory capacity in matters of climate policy. It argues that such decisions entrench partisan majorities and undermine legislative intent, necessitating structural reforms— including constitutionally permissible term limits, regularized appointments, and a transition to a dialogic judicial-legislative framework— to restore democratic accountability and remove institutional impediments to comprehensive, equity-centered climate governance.
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