Center for Health, Science & Public Policy

  • Professor Porter has taught courses at Washington University Law School on law and medicine, and AIDS and the law. Prior to teaching, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine. Professor Porter's background also includes work as a senior policy analyst and staff counsel to the National Commission on AIDS, and she has authored numerous publications related to AIDS policy.

  • Professor Bambauer teaches Internet law and intellectual property and publishes articles on intellectual property, information control, and health law. He is also one of the authors of Info/Law, a popular blog that addresses Internet law, intellectual property, and information law.

  • Professor Brakman Reiser is an expert in non-profit organizations. She was a Legal Fellow in the Office of the General Counsel of Partners HealthCare System before joining the faculty.

  • Professor Cahill has written on legal models for resolving potential conflicts of interest arising in managed care, and for addressing such conflicts between physicians and attorneys.

  • Professor Cohen has co-authored important works on new possibilities for the law of informed consent, and informed decision-making and the law of torts, which have been cited by appellate courts.

  • Professor Garrison has co-authored a leading bioethics casebook: Bioethics and the Law: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation (West, 2003). She has written and lectured widely in the area of reproductive technology.

  • Professor Janger specializes in bankruptcy law and has lectured on health care bankruptcies in a variety of settings. He led a seminar on this issue at the United States Bankruptcy Court Conference of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

  • Professor Kaplan’s research interests include health law, criminal law, and constitutional law. Her article on compelled medical treatment of pregnant women in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Gonzales v. Carhart decision will be published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law in 2010. She was previously the Director of Planning and Research at the Center for HIV Law and Policy.
  • Professor Kolber writes and teaches in the areas health law, bioethics, and neuroethics and is the founder of the Neuroethics & Law Blog. He has taught law and neuroscience topics to federal and state judges as part of a MacArthur Foundation grant and has been frequently quoted in the media. In 2007-2008, he was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton University where he wrote about the theory of punishment and how advances in our understanding of the mind and brain ought to inform our punishment practices.
  • Professor Macey’s research interests include environmental regulation and responses to natural and man-made disasters. His co-edited volume on the future of the Superfund program, Reclaiming the Land (with Jon Cannon), was published by Springer-Verlag. His forthcoming work, Sheltering in Place: Negotiating with Irrational Organizations, will be published by New York University Press. Professor Macey is the current Chair of the American Bar Association's Environmental Justice Committee, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities.
  • Professor Solan serves on the board of directors of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. He is an expert on law and linguistics, and insurance law.

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