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I am Director of the Health Law Institute and an Associate Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law. I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Albany Medical College.
I came to Hamline in 2012, after teaching at Widener University from 2007 to 2011 and at the University of Memphis from 2005 to 2007. Before entering academia, I worked seven years for Arnold & Porter LLP (in Los Angeles and Washington, DC), and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. I earned both my J.D. and Ph.D. (in philosophy & bioethics) from Georgetown University. While at Georgetown, I conducted research for both the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Law Center. I earned my B.A. (in philosophy) from the University of Pittsburgh.
My current research focuses on:
Medical Futility and other legal obstacles to good end-of-life care
Internal Dispute Resolution mechanisms in healthcare, particularly ethics committees
Tort Law, particularly consent and the assumption of risk doctrine
Public Health Law, particularly the legitimacy of restricting voluntary self-regarding conduct
Normative Jurisprudence, particularly the justifiability of hard paternalism
I teach the following courses:
Health Law I (Patient Care & Liability) Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Health Law II (Finance & Regulation) Bioethics Torts Public Health Law Business Organizations Health Law Thesis
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