Authors

Mark A. Hall

Professor of Law and Public Health, Wake Forest University

E-Mail: mhall@law.wfu.edu
Office: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC 27109-7206
Telephone: (336) 758-4476

Mark A. Hall is the Fred and Elizabeth Turnage Professor of Law and Public Health at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem NC, with appointments both in the Law School and the Medical School. Prof. Hall is an elected member of both the National Academy of Medicine and the American Law Institute, where he serves as the lead Reporter for the Restatement of Medical Malpractice law. Prof. Hall specializes in health care law and public policy, with a focus on economic, regulatory and corporate issues. 

Mary Anne Bobinski

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law

E-Mail: mbobins@emory.edu
Office: Emory University School of Law, 1301 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322-2770
Telephone: 404.727.0508

Mary Anne Bobinski is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law and former dean at Emory University School of Law (2019-2024). Before joining Emory Law, Bobinski was a professor at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law, where she served as dean from 2003 to 2015. Previously she was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Law and director of the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.

Bobinski's research and teaching interests include torts, public health law, bioethics, reproductive health law, conflicts of interest in health care and research, and comparative health law. She is a co-author of Health Care Law & Ethics and the co-­author/co-editor of a two-volume book series on medical ethics. Bobinski has also published a number of law review articles and book chapters on health law topics.

She is a past president and board member of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and a past member of the Canadian Public Health Officer's Ethics Advisory Committee. She has served as a visiting scholar at the Petrie-­Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, the University of Sydney Law School, the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Law at Oxford University, where she also held a Plumer Visiting Research Fellowship at St. Anne’s College.

David Orentlicher

Director, UNLV Health Law Program

Judge Jack and Lulu Lehman Professor of Law, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law

E-Mail: david.orentlicher@unlv.edu
Office: UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas, NV 89154
Telephone: (702) 895-2333

David Orentlicher is the Judge Jack and Lulu Lehman Professor of Law at UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law and director of the UNLV Health Law Program. Widely recognized for his expertise in health law and constitutional law, Dr. O has testified before Congress, had his scholarship cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, and has served on many national, state, and local commissions. He also was a health policy adviser for the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and he is ranked number 6 among U.S. constitutional law scholars by ScholarGPS.

A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School, Dr. O is author of Matters of Life and Death, co-author of Health Care Law and Ethics, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law. He has published numerous articles and essays on a wide range of topics, including Supreme Court reform, health care reform, physician aid in dying, reproductive decisions, affirmative action, and presidential power.

In addition to his academic experience, Dr. O brings important hands-on experience. He previously directed the American Medical Association's Division of Medical Ethics, where he drafted the AMA’s first patient’s bill of rights and many other guidelines relied upon by courts and government agencies, and he has practiced both law and medicine.

Since November 2020, Dr. O has served in the Nevada Assembly, and between 2002 and 2008, he served in the Indiana House of Representatives. He has authored legislation to increase access to treatment and reduce overdose deaths from opioid use, promote job creation, protect children from abuse and neglect, and make health care coverage more affordable. His most recent book, Two Presidents Are Better Than One: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive, draws on his experience with partisan conflict as an elected official and his expertise in constitutional law to discuss reforms that would address the country’s high levels of political polarization.

Nicholas Bagley

Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Professor Nicholas Bagley teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, regulatory theory, and health law. Prior to joining the Law School faculty, he was an attorney with the appellate staff in the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he argued a dozen cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals and acted as lead counsel in many more. Professor Bagley also served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and to the Hon. David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. Professor Bagley holds a BA in English from Yale University and received his JD, summa cum laude, from New York University School of Law. Before entering law school, he joined Teach For America and taught eighth-grade English at a public school in South Bronx. Professor Bagley's work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. His article, "Centralized Oversight of the Regulatory State," which he coauthored with Richard Revesz, was selected as the best article in the field in 2006 by the American Bar Association's Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. In August 2010, Professor Bagley testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts about agency capture. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Law School's L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a frequent contributor to The Incidental Economist , a prominent health policy blog.

Nadia N. Sawicki

Beazley Co-Chair in Health Law, Georgia Reithal Professor of Law, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law

E-Mail: nsawicki@luc.edu
Office: School of Law, Loyola University Chicago, Corboy Law Center 25 E. Pearson, Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: 312.915.8555

Prof. Sawicki’s areas of expertise include torts, health law, and bioethics. Her scholarly work addresses subjects including the law's role in shaping the informed consent process; tort law's limitations in protecting the rights of patients in the end-of-life and reproductive health contexts; the challenges of protecting patients' rights to safe and accessible medical care while also accommodating health care providers' conscientious beliefs; and the state’s role in enforcing ethical norms in medicine.

In 2020, Prof. Sawicki was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. She has previously served as a member of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law, and co-chair of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ Law Affinity Group.

Prior to joining Loyola, Prof. Sawicki held the inaugural George Sharswood Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught bioethics and public health law. She has also served as a lecturer in History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences, practiced law with Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, and clerked for the Honorable J. Curtis Joyner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before attending law school, Prof. Sawicki worked as an analyst in the Nursing Executive Center at the Advisory Board Company.

I. Glenn Cohen

James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics

Prof. Cohen is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called "medical ethics") and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. From Seoul to Krakow to Vancouver, Professor Cohen has spoken at legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world and his work has appeared in or been covered on PBS, NPR, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Mother Jones, the New York Times, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, and several other media venues.

He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School (tenured or untenured) both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34), though not the youngest in history.

Prof. Cohen's current projects relate to big data, health information technologies, mobile health, reproduction/reproductive technology, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, translational medicine, and to medical tourism – the travel of patients who are residents of one country, the "home country," to another country, the "destination country," for medical treatment.

He is the author of more than 100 articles and chapters and his award-winning work has appeared in leading legal (including the Stanford, Cornell, and Southern California Law Reviews), medical (including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA), bioethics (including the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report), scientific (Science, Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics) and public health (the American Journal of Public Health) journals, as well as Op-Eds in the New York Times and Washington Post.