Jerron Wheeler
Teaching and Research Fellow
Expertise
Health Law • Medicaid • Poverty Law • Social Welfare •
About
Professor Jerron Wheeler is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of poverty law and administrative law, with a particular emphasis on Medicaid and the legal structures that shape public welfare delivery. His forthcoming article in the Washington and Lee Law Review uses the Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) program to examine how outdated regulations have undermined Congress’s statutory guarantee of comprehensive care for children. The article argues that formal rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act offers the most democratic and effective path to restoring federal oversight and fulfilling EPSDT’s legislative promise.
Professor Wheeler’s previous work has appeared in publications such as the University of Maryland Law Journal for Race, Religion, Gender & Class, the University of California Journal for Race and Economic Justice, and the Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review. As a practicing attorney, Professor Wheeler has broad experience litigating federal class actions, state criminal trials, and civil law disputes.
Professor Wheeler earned a bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees from the University of South Florida. He received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Education
J.D., University of Florida Levin College of Law
M.B.A., University of South Florida
M.S., University of South Florida
B.A., University of South Florida
Courses
Poverty Law
Poverty, Health, and Law (Seminar)
Health Law: Health Equity and Patients’ Rights
Publications
- EPSDT Rulemaking: Updating an Outdated Federal Regulation to Protect Children’s Health, 82 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. _ (forthcoming 2026)
- From Margins to Center: Elevating the Voices of Disadvantaged Families in Child Welfare, 26 Marq. Ben. & Soc. Welfare L. Rev. 1 (forthcoming 2025) (essay)
- Breaking Bias: A Singular Chapter Solution For Racial Equity In Consumer Bankruptcy, 21 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 239 (2024)
- Defunding C.O.P.S.: Conditioning Federal Funding to State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies upon the Implementation of a Program That Screens Its Current and Future Officers for White Supremacist Affiliations, 23 U. Md. L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 1 (2023)