ROBIN FRETWELL WILSON
Washington and Lee University 390 Greenfield Street School of Law Daleville, Virginia 24083 Sydney Lewis Hall Tel. (540) 958-1389 Lexington, Virginia 24450 www.robinwilson.org Tel. (540) 458-8225 [email protected] Fax (540) 458-8488
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007 – Present Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia Class of 1958 Law Alumni Professor of Law (2009 – Present) and Law Alumni Faculty Fellow (2011-2012) Professor of Law and Law Alumni Faculty Fellow (2008 – 2009) Professor of Law (2007 – Present)
Teaching areas include: family law; seminar on children, culture and violence; law and social science seminar; advanced family law practicum; health law practicum; insurance. Law Alumni Faculty Fellow Award for Scholarship, 2011-2012; Louise Halper Diversity Award, Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, 2011; Teacher of the Year, Women Law Students’ Association, 2008; Law Alumni Faculty Fellow Award for Scholarship, 2008 – 2009; Director and Founder, Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium, 2008 – Present. University Service: Ad Hoc Review Committee, (2009-2010); Faculty Administrators Evaluation Committee (2007 – 2011, Chair, 2009 – 2010); Student-Faculty Hearing Board (2008 – 2010, Chair, 2009 – 2010). Law School Service: Appointments Committee (2007 – 2008, 2010-2011; 2011-2012); Educational Planning and Curriculum Committee (2007 – 2008); Law Center Committee (2007 – 2008, 2009 – 2010); Faculty Advisor, Washington and Lee Law Review (2007 – Present); Faculty Co-Advisor, Washington and Lee Health Law Association (2007 – Present); Faculty Co-Advisor, Washington and Lee Wine Law Society (2011 – Present)
2004 – 2007 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland Professor of Law (2006 – 2007) Associate Professor of Law (2004 – 2006)
Teaching areas included: children’s health, violence and the law, health care law, insurance, and bioethics. Service: Appointments Committee (2004 – 2006); Faculty Senate (2005 – 2006); Faculty Liaison, Paul M. Cordish Memorial Writing Competition In Insurance (2005 – 2006); Faculty Advisor, Journal of Health Care Law & Policy (2004 – 2006); Member, University of Maryland Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery (2004 – 2006)
1998 – 2004 University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina Associate Professor of Law (2003 – 2004) Assistant Professor of Law (1998 – 2003)
Teaching areas included: family law, health care law, insurance, and bioethics. Outstanding Faculty Publication Award, 2003; Director and Founder, Johnson & Johnson Health Law Lecture Series, 1999 – 2004. Committee Service: Dean Search Committee (2002 – 2003); Faculty Senate (1999 – 2002); Executive Committee (2001 –
1 2002); Faculty Selection Committee (1999 – 2000); Student-Faculty Task Force (1998 – 2002); Library Committee (1998 – 1999); Academic Standing Committee (1998); Faculty Advisor, Health Law Society (2000 – 2004); Faculty Advisor, JD-MHA Dual Degree Program (2001 – 2004)
TEACHING VISITS
2010, 2012 University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Visiting Professor and Francis H. Hare Chair, teaching Biomedical Ethics, Fall 2010; Fall 2012 course not yet determined
May, 2008, University of Padua, Padua, Italy May, 2009, Visiting Lecturer in Family Law May, 2010
2006 – 2007 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia Visiting Professor of Law Service: Faculty Advisor, Moot Court Team, American Bar Association Arbitration Competition
Fall, 2003 University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland Visiting Associate Professor of Law Service: Organizer, Panel on Survival Tactics for Future Law Firm Associates
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2008 – Present Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium Series, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia Director and Founder Solicited gift resulting in the Colloquium Series and direct the Series
Summer, 2006 University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina Consultant on Faculty Development
1999 – 2004 Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Law Lecture Series, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina Director and Founder Solicited annually renewing gift resulting in the Lecture Series and directed Lecture Series
2002 – 2004 Students Assisting Seniors, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina Founder and Co-Principal Investigator Secured funding for and directed this joint project of the University of South Carolina Schools of Law and Public Health to secure additional social benefits for low-income senior citizens. The savings to seniors enrolled during SAS’ first year of operation exceeded $210,000 over their lifetimes, a return of over 14 times the pilot grant received from the Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging
2 HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS
2011 - 2012 Received Law Alumni Faculty Fellow Award for Scholarship, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2011 Received the 2011 Louise Halper Diversity Award from the Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2010 Ranked as one of the Top 10 Family Law Scholars in the United States in terms of scholarly impact in Brian Leiter’s 2010 Review of Scholarly Impact
Spring, 2010 Delivered the 2010 Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture in Family Law, Hofstra University School of Law
Fall, 2009 Appointed as a Chaired Professor, the Class of 1958 Law Alumni Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Spring, 2009 Elected to the American Law Institute
2008 – 2009 Law Alumni Faculty Fellow Award for Scholarship, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Spring, 2008 Teacher of the Year, Women Law Students’ Association, Washington and Lee University School of Law
December 17, 2007 Litteras Honoris for contributions to the XX Conference of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law, presented by the Kopaonik School of Natural Law, Mt. Kopaonik, Serbia
July 6, 2007 Citizen’s Legislative Award, presented by Delegate Robert Bell, Virginia House of Delegates, Charlottesville, Virginia, for work on informed consent legislation
2003 Outstanding Faculty Publication Award, University of South Carolina School of Law
BOOKS
DOMESTIC RELATIONS: CASES AND MATERIALS, 7th edition (Walter Wadlington, Raymond C. O’Brien, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, Foundation Press, 2013) (forthcoming)
UNDERSTANDING FAMILY LAW, 4th edition (John DeWitt Gregory, Peter N. Swisher, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, LexisNexis, 2012) (forthcoming)
HEALTH LAW AND BIOETHICS: CASES IN CONTEXT (Sandra H. Johnson, Joan H. Krause, Richard S. Saver, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Aspen Publishers, 2009) . Cited in The Philadelphia Inquirer (Paul Gelsinger September, 2009) and “Human-research oversight is too lax” Arizona Daily Star (Wilson September, 2009)
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: EMERGING CONFLICTS (Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008) . Reviewed or featured in New York Review of Books (David Cole, July 2009), Commonweal Magazine (Robert Vischer, August 2009), Illinois Law Review (Shannon Gilreath, Fall 2009) and U.S. News and World Report (Don Gilgaff, May 2009), among other publications
3 RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006) . Featured in The Washington Post (Leah Ward Sears, October 2006), New York Times (Wilson, Opinion- Editorial, October 2006), and The Weekly Standard (Claudia Anderson, September 2006), among other publications
HANDBOOK OF CHILDREN, CULTURE & VIOLENCE (Nancy Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Sage Press, 2006)
MEDICAL ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM: A SYNOPSIS FOR STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS (2002) (co-author with members of the University of South Carolina Center for Biomedical Ethics)
BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Perils of Privatized Marriage,” in MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN A MULTI-CULTURAL CONTEXT: RECONSIDERING THE BOUNDARIES OF CIVIL LAW AND RELIGION (Joel A. Nichols, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011)
“Enlarging the Regulation of Shrinking Cosmetics,” in THE NANOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE: CREATING LAW AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS FOR UNCERTAIN RISKS (David Dana, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011)
“Estate of Gelsinger v. Trustees of University of Pennsylvania: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest In Human Subjects Research,” in HEALTH LAW AND BIOETHICS: CASES IN CONTEXT (Sandra H. Johnson, Joan H. Krause, Richard S. Saver, & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., 2009)
“Emerging Conflicts between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding A Live-And-Let-Live Solution,” in XXI PRAVNI ZIVOT (LEGAL LIFE) NO. 10 (ASSOCIATION OF THE JURISTS OF SERBIA, BELGRADE, SERBIA, 2008)
“Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage from the Healthcare Context,” in SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: EMERGING CONFLICTS (Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., 2008) . Featured in the New York Times (Peter Steinfels, May 2009), Washington Post (Jacqueline Salmon, May 2009), Politico (Ben Smith, May 2009), LA Times (Opinion-Editorial, May 2009), and National Journal (David Gauvey Herbert, June 2009), among other publications
“Keeping Women In Business (and Family),” in RETHINKING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: EXAMINING THE FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION (Samuel Gregg & James R. Stoner, eds., 2008) . Featured in The Wall Street Journal (Anita Raghavan, April 2008), ABC News (San Francisco) (May 2008), and The Washington Post (Margaret K. Nelson, July 4, 2010), among other publications
“The Harmonisation of Family Law in the United States,” in EUROPEAN CHALLENGES IN CONTEMPORARY FAMILY LAW (Katharina Boele-Woelki and Tone Sverdrup, eds., 2008)
“Blind Trust: The American Law Institute’s Proposed Treatment of De Facto Parents,” in PRAVNI ZIVOT (LEGAL LIFE) NO. 9 OR 10 (ASSOCIATION OF THE JURISTS OF SERBIA, BELGRADE, SERBIA, 2007)
“Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents,” in RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006)
“Introduction,” in RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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“Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not the Child,” in HANDBOOK OF CHILDREN, CULTURE & VIOLENCE (Nancy Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., 2006)
“Threat Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings: Its Role in Dependency Proceedings,” in 2002 ASPEN FAMILY LAW UPDATE (Ron Brown & Laura Morgan, eds., 2001)
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
“Trusting Mothers: A Critique of the American Law Institute's Treatment of De Facto Parents,” 38(4) Hofstra Law Review 1103 (2010) . Publication of invited remarks given as the 2010 Siben Lecture . Featured in New York Times Room for Debate (Wilson, February 2012)
“The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research,” 36 American Journal of Law & Medicine 295 (2010)
“Insubstantial Burdens: The Case for Government Employee Exemptions to Same-Sex Marriage Laws,” 5(2) Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 318 (2010)
“Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion,” 18(4) William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (2010)
“Sex Play in Virtual Worlds,” 66 Washington and Lee Law Review 1127 (2009) . Featured in VIRTUAL WORLDS AND KIDS: MAPPING THE RISKS, A REPORT TO CONGRESS, Federal Trade Commission, December 2009) and The American Spectator (Emily Smith, March 29, 2010)
“Essay—Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Life After Prop 8,” 14 The Nexus Journal 101 (2009)
“Beyond the Bounds of Decency: Why Fault Continues to Matter to (Some) Wronged Spouses,” Comment, 66(1) Washington and Lee Law Review 503 (2009)
“American Law Institute’s PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION, Eight Years After Adoption: Guiding Principles or Obligatory Footnote?” 50th Anniversary Issue, 42 Family Law Quarterly 573 (Fall 2008) (with Michael Clisham) . Featured in the ABA Journal (Mark Hansen, August 2009) and The Washington Times (Cheryl Wetzstein, March 2009)
“The Overlooked Costs of Religious Deference,” 64(4) Washington and Lee Law Review 1363 (2008) . Featured in the New York Times (Adam Liptak, February 2008)
“Essay: The Limits of Conscience: Moral Clashes over Deeply Divisive Healthcare Procedures,” 34 American Journal of Law & Medicine 41 (2008) . Cited in the Christian Science Monitor (Ben Arnoldy, December,2008)
“Essay: A Matter of Conviction: Moral Clashes Over Same-Sex Adoption,” 22(2) BYU Journal of Public Law 475 (2008)
“Unauthorized Practice: Regulating The Use of Anesthetized, Recently Deceased, and Conscious Patients in Medical Teaching,” 44(2) Idaho Law Review 423 (2008)
“Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns,” 34(4) Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 704 (Winter 2006)
5 “Bringing Up Baby: Adoption, Marriage, and the Best Interests of the Child,” 14(3) William & Mary Bill of Rights Institute Law Journal 883 (2006) (co-authored with University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox)
“Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Children?,” 42(3) San Diego Law Review 847 (2005) . Featured in Atlanta Journal-Constitution (James Wooten, December 2008)
“Autonomy Suspended: Using Female Patients to Teach Intimate Exams Without Their Knowledge or Consent,” 8(2) Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 240 (2005) . Featured in Chicago Tribune (Lauren Markoe, June 2003), Good Morning America, ABC News.com and CNN Headline News (July 2003), and Charlotte Observer (Karen Gurloch, June 2003)
“Removing Violent Parents from the Home: A Test Case for the Public Health Approach,” Comment, 12(3) Virginia Journal of Social Policy & Law 638 (2005)
“Uncovering the Rationale for Requiring Infertility in Surrogacy Arrangements,” 29 American Journal of Law & Medicine 337 (2003)
“The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings,” 51(1) Emory Law Journal 241 (2002)
“Children at Risk: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children After Divorce,” 86(2) Cornell Law Review 251 (2001) . Featured in The State (Claudia Smith Brinson, January 2001) and Associated Press (David Crary, November 2007), among others
“Hospital Ethics Committees as the Forum of Last Resort: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come,” 76(2) North Carolina Law Review 353 (1998)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Recent Government Reforms Related to Marital Formation, Maintenance, and Dissolution in the United States: A Primer and Critical Review,” Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy (2009) (co-authored with social scientists)
“Recognizing the Threat Posed by an Incestuous Parent to the Victim’s Siblings, Part 1: Appraising the Risk,” Featured Article, 13(2) Journal of Child and Family Studies 143 (2004)
“Recognizing the Threat Posed by An Incestuous Parent to the Victim’s Siblings, Part 2: Improving Legal Responses,” Featured Article, 13(3) Journal of Child and Family Studies 263 (2004)
“Using Tort Law to Secure Patient Dignity,” 42 Trial Magazine 42 (October, 2004) (co-authored)
“Unauthorized Practice: Teaching Pelvic Examination on Women Under Anesthesia,” Commentary, 50(4) Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association 217 (2003)
“Fractured Families, Fragile Children: The Sexual Vulnerability of Girls in the Aftermath of Divorce,” 14(1) Child and Family Law Quarterly 1 (2002) (a British publication)
“Rethinking the Shield of Immunity: Should Ethics Committees Be Accountable for Their Mistakes?”, 14(2) Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum 172 (2002)
6 “Hospital Ethics Committees: Are They Evaluating Their Performance?”, 5(1) Hospital Ethics Committee Forum 1 (1993) (co-authored)
SHORTER WORKS
“But What About the Child?,” Opinion-Editorial, New York Times, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News (February 14, 2012)
Letter to Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey regarding Senate Bill No. 1 (February 14, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Speaker Frank Chopp, Washington State House of Representatives regarding Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6239-ES (February 7, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Ryan I. Yamane, Chairman, Hawaii State Legislature House Committee on Health regarding House Bill 2232 Prohibiting Unauthorized Educational Pelvic Examinations (February 2, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Governor Gregoire of Washington regarding Substitute Senate Bill 6239 (January 29, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Sydney Forrester, Majority Policy Counsel, Washington State Legislature regarding Senate Bill 5793 (January 11, 2012) (co-drafter and signatory)
“A Winner-Takes-All Approach to State Same-Sex Marriage Laws is Self-Defeating,” SCOTUSblog Same-Sex Marriage Symposium (August 29, 2011) (invited response)
“Greece Abandons Sharia Law Resolution of Muslim Family Law Disputes,” The Volokh Conspiracy (August 25, 2011) (invited guest blog)
“Balancing marriage equality with other social goods,” SCOTUSblog Same-Sex Marriage Symposium (August 22, 2011) (invited guest blog)
“Protecting Religious Liberty,” Opinion-Editorial, The New York Times, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News (June 29, 2011)
Letter to Senator Ball of New York (June 15, 2011)
Letter to Senator Skelos of New York (May 17, 2011)
Letter to Governor Cuomo of New York (May 17, 2011) (co-drafter and signatory)
“R.I. Marriage Law Should Shield Religious Liberty,” Opinion-Editorial, The Providence Journal (February 13, 2011)
Letter to Governor Chaffee of Rhode Island (February 7, 2011) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Governor O’Malley of Maryland (January 26, 2011) (co-drafter and signatory)
“Is New York Ready for No-Fault Divorce?,” The New York Times blog (June 15, 2010) (invited by the Editors)
“The Flip-Side of Same-Sex Marriage,” Opinion-Editorial, Los Angeles Times (May 3, 2009)
7 Letter to Archdiocese of Washington concerning proposed District of Columbia same-sex marriage legislation (August 4, 2009) (requested by Archdiocese)
Letter to Governor Chet Culver of Iowa (July 9, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr., New York Senate (May 8, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory)
Letter to Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire (May 1, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory) . Resulted in legislative exemption contained in House Bill 0073, signed into law in June 2009
Letter to Governor John Baldacci of Maine (May 1, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory)
“Same-Sex Marriage: How Will it Impact Marriage and Family Therapists and Other Family Professionals,” The Therapist, magazine of the California Assoc. of Marriage and Family Therapists (May/June 2009)
Letter to Senator Michael A. McLachlan, Connecticut Senate, Minority Whip, Twenty-Fourth District (April 17, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory) . Resulted in legislative exemption contained in Connecticut Public Act No. 09-13 (2009)
Letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding Proposed Recission of Bush “Conscience Regulation” (April 7, 2009) (co-drafter and signatory) . Featured in The Washington Post God in Government blog (Michelle Boorstein, April 2009)
“NH’s Same-Sex Marriage Bill is Needlessly Discriminatory,” Opinion-Editorial, New Hampshire Union Leader (May 6, 2009)
“Will Law Demand We Support Gay Marriage?”, Opinion-Editorial, Hartford Courant (March 6, 2009)
“Health Care Regulation: The Year in Review,” Searle Center, Northwestern University School of Law (June 15, 2007) (with Professor David Hyman, published on the Searle Center’s website)
“Don’t Let Divorce Off The Hook,” Opinion-Editorial, New York Times (October 1, 2006)
“Medicare: Where’s The Common Sense? A Review of MEDICARE MEETS MEPHISTOPHELES by David A. Hyman (2006),” 34(4) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 821 (2006) (book review, co-authored with Washington and Lee University School of Law student Erin Willoughby and University of Maryland School of Law graduate David Blazina)
“A Review of Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse Cases (3d. ed., Sage Publications, 2004) by the American Prosecutors Research Institute’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse,” 14(1) Journal of Child and Family Studies 155 (2005) (book review, co-authored with University of South Carolina Professor Pamela Melton)
“Physician Recruiting Under the Microscope,” Law & Medicine Column, 59(3) Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association 238 (2004)
“Two Bites at the Apple: Holding Physician Practices Directly Liable For Medical Malpractice,” Law & Medicine Column, 59(2) Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association 164 (2004) (co-author)
“When Seniors Face Closed Doors: Are Advance Beneficiary Notices the Answer?,” Law and Medicine Column, 59(1) Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association 84 (2004)
8 “From Swords to Shield: The Essential Partnership of Physicians and Attorneys,” Law and Medicine Column, 59(2) Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association 12 (2004)
“Introduction to Volume on Mental Health Law,” 14 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 315 (2003)
“Given Medical Practices, It May be Time to Legislate Respect,” Opinion-Editorial, Utah Standard-Examiner (August 25, 2003)
“A Review of FROM PARTNERS TO PARENTS: THE SECOND REVOLUTION IN FAMILY LAW (Columbia University Press, 2000) by June Carbone,” 35(4) Family Law Quarterly 833 (2002) (book review)
“Private Contracting in Medicare: The Continuing Struggle to Escape the Confines of the Medicare Program,” 5(5) Fraud & Abuse Reporter 1 (2002)
“Add a Little Private Money: How and When Medicare Patients May Buy Services with Their Own Funds Still Sparks a Lot of Debate,” 24(24) Legal Times 18 (June 2001)
“Providers and Counsel: Essential Partners,” Carolina Healthcare Business 10 (July/August 2001)
“Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Errors: New Legal Risk?”, Carolina Healthcare Business 7 (March/April 2001)
“Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Errors: Will Litigation Hasten Change?”, 3(12) Health Care Fraud & Abuse Newsletter 3 (2001)
“Hospital Ethics Committees: Good News and Bad,” Opinion-Editorial, 96(10) The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association 431 (October 2000)
“Third Party Recovery by HMOs and Healthcare Facilities for the Care of Patients: Fraud or Contractual Rights?”, 3(3) Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Newsletter 1 (April 2000)
“Leveling the Playing Field? The Nation’s First Managed Care Liability Law,” 31(1) Journal of Health & Hospital Law 1 (1998) (co-author)
“Texas’ New Managed Care Liability Law,” 6(2) The Advocate 77 (1997) (co-author)
TESTIMONY BEFORE LEGISLATIVE BODIES
February 10, 2012 Maryland State House Judiciary and Government Operations Committees. Testified on Maryland House Bill 438 to recognize same-sex marriage
February 25, 2011 Maryland State House Judiciary Committee. Testified on Maryland House Bill 175 to recognize same-sex marriage
February 8, 2011 Maryland State Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. Testified on Maryland Senate Bill 116 to recognize same-sex marriage
November 2, 2009 Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary Committee. Testified on D.C. Council Bill 18-482 to recognize same-sex marriage
January 22, 2007 Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions, Virginia House of Delegates. Testified on House Bill 2969 to Prohibit Unauthorized Pelvic Exams
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June 10, 2003 Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, Joint Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy. Testified on “Unauthorized Practice: The Use of Anesthetized and Deceased Patients, Without Consent, to Train Medical Professionals”
May 15, 2003 South Carolina House of Representatives, House Special Laws Subcommittee. Testified on the Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Protection Act
PAPERS PRESENTED
July 30, 2012 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting. "The Erupting Clash Over the Sterilization and Contraception Coverage Mandate: Implications of the Empirical Evidence of Women's Contraceptive Usage" (upcoming).
September, 2012 Georgetown University Law Center conference addressing the religious, moral, health and legal issues raised by the new HHS regulations on “Coverage of Preventive Services Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (upcoming).
April 22-23, 2012 Doha, Qatar, Symposium on the Jurisprudence of Extended Families, Extending Families and Intergenerational Solidarity. Will Present “Should The State be Neutral When Families, Based on Religious Understandings, Seek to Shift Duties of Support upon Divorce or Death from Spouses to the Extended Family?” (upcoming).
April 11-13, 2012 Oxford University, Magdalen College, Conference on Religious Freedom and Equality: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe. Presenting “The Calculus of Accommodation: Balancing the Interests of Religious Objectors and Civil Society.”
April 5, 2012 Carilion Medical Center, Conversations in Ethics Program, Roanoke, Virginia. Presented “How Private Should Your Medical Records Be?”
April 2, 2012 University of Oklahoma School of Law, Constitutional Studies Symposium on Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Traditions and New Horizons. Presenting Lunchtime Keynote on “The Erupting Clash Between Religion and the State Over Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion.”
April 2, 2012 University of Oklahoma School of Law, Constitutional Studies Symposium on Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Traditions and New Horizons. Panel on Religious Freedom and the Courts Today with Solicitor General Patrick Wyrick of Oklahoma
March 19, 2012 Regent University School of Law, presented “The Erupting Clash Between Religion and the State Over Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion”
March 8, 2012 The University of Montana School of Law,. presented “Personhood Amendments: Is There Anything There?”
March 7, 2012 Gonzaga University School of Law, presented “Washington’s Pending Same-sex Marriage Law: Does it Respect Religious Liberty?”
March 6, 2012 College of Law, University of Idaho, presented “Islamic Question.”
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February 24, 2012 Pepperdine University School of Law, Symposium on The Competing Claims of Law & Religion: Who Should Influence Whom? Presented Invited Response to Keynote Speaker, Professor Ayelet Shachar.
February 23, 2012 University of Houston Law Center, Spring Colloquium. Presented “The Calculus of Accommodation”
February 23, 2012 Houston Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society. Presented “Conscience Clauses in the Law”
February 22, 2012 Rutgers School of Law-Camden. Presented “Personhood Amendments: Is There Anything There?”
July 26, 2011 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting. Presented “Human Subjects Research: Protecting Test Subjects and Society from Over-Reaching”
July 18, 2011 International Society of Family Law Conference, Lyon, France. Presented “Civil— Not Religious Law—Should Govern Wealth Distribution Upon Death or Divorce”
April 27, 2011 New York City Bar, Forum on Reconciling Rights: Balancing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Civil Rights with First Amendment Religious Protections. Presented “Protecting Religious Liberty in New York: A Path Forward to Same-Sex Marriage.”
March 24, 2011 University of Maryland School of Law. Panel Discussion on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberties.
March 9, 2011 University of New Mexico School of Law. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation”
February 22, 2011 Roger Williams University School of Law. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation”
October 6, 2010 International Academy of Nanomedicine, Second World Congress, Antalya, Turkey. Presented “Enlarging the Regulation of Shrinking Cosmetics and Sunscreens.”
October 1, 2010 Yeditepe University Kayisdagi/Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey. Presented “The Legal Regulation of Nanotechnology: Towards a Middle Path.”
September 16, 2010 SUNY Upstate Medical Center. Presented “Addressing the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research: Learning from the Jesse Gelsinger Case.”
Syracuse University College of Law, Faculty Colloquium. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research.”
September 14, 2010 Center for Public Conversation at the Institute for American Values, Achieving Disagreement Consultation.
11 June 25, 2010 Brooklyn Law School, Annual Law and Religion Roundtable. Presented “Insubstantial Burdens: The Case for Government Employee Exemptions to Same-Sex Marriage Laws.”
June 5, 2010 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Texas School of Law. Presented “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds: Protecting Children in Online Spaces.”
May 25-28, 2010 University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Lectures on U.S. Family Law.
April 15, 2010 Harvard Law School, Panel Discussion on Questions of Conscience?: Religious Exemptions to Same Sex Marriage Law sponsored by HLS Lambda and the Harvard Federalist Society.
April 7, 2010 Hofstra University School of Law, the Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture. Presented “Trusting Mothers: A Critique of the American Law Institute’s De Facto Parent.”
March 29, 2010 University of Maryland School of Law, Panel Discussion on Gay Marriage sponsored by the American Constitution Society.
March 26, 2010 George Washington Law School, Panel Discussion of Naomi Cahn and June Carbone’s book, RED FAMILIES V. BLUE FAMILIES: LEGAL POLARIZATION AND THE CREATION OF CULTURE.
March 8, 2010 University of Illinois College of Law, Faculty Workshop. Presented “Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion.”
February 26, 2010 Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Symposium on the Future of Rights of Conscience in Health Care: Legal and Ethical Perspectives, presented “Empowering Private Protection of Conscience.”
February 6, 2010 Boston University School of Law, American Journal of Law and Medicine Symposium “Follow the Money: the Impact of Economics on the Delivery of Health Care.” Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research.”
February 4, 2010 Carilion Medical Center, Conversations in Ethics Program, Roanoke, Virginia. Presented “Money, Prestige and Influence in Human Subjects Research.”
February 1, 2010 Saint Louis University Center for Health Law Studies, Distinguished Speakers Series. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research.”
December 4, 2009 Princeton University. Invited Response to Northwestern University Professor Andrew Koppelman on new book project about Same-Sex Marriage.
November 15, 2009 Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) 35th Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research.”
November 12, 2009 Northwestern University School of Law, Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, Symposium on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Accommodation:
12 Determining the Role of the Legislature. Presented “Lowering the Temperature on the Same-Sex Marriage Debate.”
November 6, 2009 William and Mary School of Law, Bill of Rights Institute Symposium on Families, Fundamentalism & the First Amendment. Presented "Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion.”
October 7, 2009 University of Georgia School of Law, Chief Justice Leah Sears’ course on Contemporary Issues in Family Law. Invited by former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court to guest lecture on “De Facto Parents.”
September 15, 2009 Drexel University, Health Law Workshop. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: New Evidence of the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research.”
August 31, 2009 University of Alabama School of Law, Colloquium Series. Presenting “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research.”
August 25, 2009 5th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Presented: “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds.”
August 7, 2009 Southeastern Association of Law Schools, 62nd Annual Meeting, Panel on Should Marriage Be Abolished?. Presented “The Perils of Privatized Marriage.”
July 16, 2009 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Children and the Law Junior Faculty Workshop. Moderated a discussion on “Developing a Scholarly Agenda.”
June 15, 2009 South China University of Technology, Guangzho, China. Participated in “Roundtable Discussion of Emerging Technologies.”
June 12-13, 2009 First World Congress of International Academy of Nanomedicine, Sanya, Hainan, China. Presented “The Legal Regulation of Nanotechnology: Towards a Middle Path.”
June 7-8, 2009 International Society of Family Law, Regional Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation.”
May 11-15, 2009 University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Lectures on U.S. Family Law.
April 23-24, 2009 Northwestern University School of Law. Roundtable Discussion of Nanotechnology.
April 14, 2009 Dutch Equal Opportunities Commission and University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty in the United States.”
April 3, 2009 National Association of Women Judges, hosted by the Georgia Supreme Court. Presented “Keynote: De Facto Parenthood and Child Well-being.”
April 2, 2009 Emory University Center for Ethics and the Emory University School of Law Health Law Society. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research.”
13 April 1, 2009 Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Presented “The Death of Jesse Gelsinger: Money, Prestige, and Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research.”
April 1, 2009 Wake Forest University School of Law, Panel Discussion on Same-Sex Marriage. Presented Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation.
March 25, 2009 Howard University School of Law, Panel Discussion on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation Same-Sex Marriage, sponsored by the American Constitution Society.
March 13, 2009 The Brookings Institution, Governing Ideas panel on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A Reconciliation. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Lessons from Abortion.”
February 27, 2009 Chapman University School of Law, Symposium on Judicial Activism: Same-Sex Marriage and the Aftermath of Proposition 8. Presented “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Life After Prop 8.”
January 26, 2009 Georgetown University School of Law, Panel on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty hosted by the Moral Values Project. Presented “Emerging Conflicts Between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding a Live-And-Let-Live Solution.”
January 8, 2009 American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Session on Family and Juvenile Law, San Diego, California. Presented “Keeping Women In Business” (chaired session).
December 13, 2008 Mt. Kapoanik, Serbia, XXI Conference of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law. Presented “Emerging Conflicts Between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding a Live-And-Let-Live Solution.”
December 11, 2008 University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law, Novi Sad, Serbia. Presented “Emerging Conflicts Between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding a Live-And-Let- Live Solution” to faculty and students in Family Law.
November 19, 2008 Supreme Court of Georgia, For Children’s Sake: A Summit on Marriage and Family. Presented “Keynote: De Facto Parenthood and Child Well-being.”
October 24, 2008 Chapman University School of Law, The Chapman Dialogue Series, Panel on Legal Aspects of Same-Sex Marriage and Prop 8 Issues. Presented “Emerging Conflicts Between Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Finding a Live-And-Let-Live Solution.”
October 17, 2008 University of Virginia, Conference on Who is Called and Parent and Why. Presented “The Meaning of Adoption: A Comment on Brinig and Patterson.”
October 4, 2008 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Symposium on Protecting Virtual Playgrounds: Children, Law and Play Online. Presented “Sex Play in Virtual Worlds.”
September 19, 2008 13th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law & the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice, Vienna, Austria. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage From the Healthcare Context.”
14 September 9, 2008 First Amendment Center, Newseum, Book-launching of Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts, Washington, D.C. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage From the Healthcare Context.”
August 2, 2008 Southeastern Association of Law Schools, 61st Annual Meeting, Panel on New Developments in Parenthood. Presented “The ALI’s Conception of Parent: Is It Getting Traction?”
June 14, 2008 Princeton University, Family Seminar. Presented “Ignoring Gender: A Critique of Modern Family Law.”
June 6, 2008 The American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Health Law Teachers Conference hosted by Drexel University College of Law, Philadelphia. Presented “Estate of Gelsinger v. Trustees of University of Pennsylvania: Money, Prestige, and Influence In Human Subjects Research.”
May 10 – 16, 2008 University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Lectures on U.S. Family Law.
April 11, 2008 University of Idaho, College of Law, Symposium on Law & Healthcare: Bridging the Divisions Symposium. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Regulating The Use of Anesthetized, Recently Deceased, and Conscious Patients in Medical Teaching.”
December 13-17, 2008 Mt. Kaponik, Serbia, XX Conference of the Kopaonik School of Natural Law. Presented “Blind Trust: The American Law Institute’s Proposed Treatment of De Facto Parents.”
December 12, 2007 University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law, Novi Sad, Serbia. Presented “Blind Trust: The American Law Institute’s Proposed Treatment of De Facto Parents” to faculty and students in Family Law.
November 14, 2007 St. Thomas University School of Law, Conference on Multi-Tiered Marriage. Presented “The Perils of Privatized Marriage.”
November 8, 2007 Northeastern University School of Law, Panel on Science, Morality, and Health Care Issues. Presented: “Matters of Conscience: Moral Clashes Over Deeply Divisive Healthcare Procedures.”
October 1, 2007 Brigham Young University School of Law, symposium on Same-Sex Marriage and Gay Adoptions: Inclusion, Compromise, Protection, and Consequences. Presented “A Matter of Conviction: Moral Clashes over Same-Sex Adoption.”
June 25 – 30, 2007 30th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Padua, Italy. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents.”
June 18 –20, 2007 International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Presented “Perils of Privatized Marriage.”
June 7– 9, 2007 Commission on European Family Law, 3rd Annual Conference, Oslo, Norway. Presented “Keynote: Harmonization of Family Law in the United States.”
15 May 17 – 19, 2007 Princeton University, Witherspoon Institute. Presented “Keeping Women In Business: Examining The Business School Education.”
May 4, 2007 Northwestern University School of Law, Searle Center. Presented “A Review of Health Care Regulation” (with Professor David Hyman).
March 30, 2007 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Conference on Gender Relevant Legislation in Muslim and Non-Muslim Countries. Presented “Perils of Privatized Marriage.”
March 27, 2007 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Panel on Lessons Learned the Hard Way, co-sponsored by the SBA and the School of Law’s Office of Career Planning and Placement.
March 23, 2007 University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery, Nanomedicine Research Day. Presented “Legal Issues in the Regulation of Nanotechnology.”
February 22 – 24, 2007 Pepperdine University School of Law. Presented “The Role of the Civil State in Marriage and Divorce.”
February 2 – 3, 2007 University of South Carolina School of Law, Barnes Symposium. Presented “Law’s Inadequacy.”
November 21, 2006 Arizona State University College of Law, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns.”
November 17, 2006 University of Virginia School of Law, The Center for Children, Families and the Law. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents.”
October 28, 2006 HERS Foundation, Twenty-Fifth Annual Hysterectomy Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. Presented “Keynote: Consent: The Law and Hysterectomy.”
October 26, 2006 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Faculty Presentation. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents.”
October 18, 2006 University of Virginia School of Medicine, Grand Rounds. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Evaluating the Duty to Dispense Emergency Contraceptives.”
September 21, 2006 Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. Presented “Medicare: Where’s The Common Sense? A Response to Medicare Meets Mephistopheles by David A. Hyman.” . Aired on Book Notes, C-Span, October 22, 2006
September 11, 2006 American Academy of Nanomedicine, Second Annual Conference, National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns.”
16 July 11, 2006 International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not The Child.”
June 20, 2006 Maryland Health Care Ethics Committee Network, Conference entitled Should Conscience Be Your Guide? Exploring Conscience-Based Refusals in Health Care. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Evaluating the Duty to Dispense Emergency Contraceptives.”
June 2, 2006 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Maryland School of Law. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns.”
May 22, 2006 The Heritage Foundation, Conference on Same-Sex Marriage and the Fate of Religious Liberties. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage From the Healthcare Context.”
April 28, 2006 University of Maryland School of Law, Nanotechnology Regulatory Working Group. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns.”
April 12, 2006 University of Illinois College of Law and School of Medicine, Jon David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy and the University of Illinois Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. Presented “Nanotechnology: The Challenge of Regulating Known Unknowns”
March 31, 2006 Yale University, School of Medicine, Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy. Presented “Remove the Threat, Not the Child: A Test Case for Using Social Science to Guide Child and Family Policy.”
February 27, 2006 Brigham Young University School of Law. Presented “Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Children?”
February 21, 2006 George Mason University School of Law, Faculty Workshop Series. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not The Child.”
February 20, 2006 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Faculty Workshop Series. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not The Child.”
December 15, 2005 The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Conference on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom. Presented “Matters of Conscience: Lessons for Same-Sex Marriage From the Healthcare Context.”
November 15, 2005 University of Florida Levin College of Law. Presented “Remove the Threat, Not the Child.”
September 30, 2005 William & Mary College of Law, Conference on Reforming Parenting Laws. Presented “Bringing Up Baby: Adoption, Marriage, and the Best Interests of the Child” (with University of Virginia professor Brad Wilcox).
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July 20, 2005 12th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law, Salt Lake City, Utah. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents.”
July 8, 2005 University of South Carolina School of Law. Presented “Managing A Scholarship Agenda: What Has Worked and What Hasn't.”
June 4, 2005 Claremont McKenna College, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.. Presented “Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: The Cost of Failing to Grasp Sociolegal Research.”
June 3, 2005 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Houston Law Center. Presented “Nanotechnology and Planning for the Unknown: Lessons from Bioterrorism.”
March 9, 2005 University of Maryland School of Law, Faculty Forum. Presented “Remove the Threat, Not the Child: A Test Case for the Public Health Approach.”
March 4, 2005 University of South Carolina, Nano-Ethics Conference. Presented “Nanotechnology and Bioterrorism: Issues in Regulation.”
January 14, 2005 University of San Diego School of Law, Conference on The Meaning of Marriage. Presented “Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Children?”
January 7, 2005 American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Session on Law, Medicine and Health Care. Presented “Autonomy Suspended: The Use of Patients for Teaching Purposes without their Knowledge or Consent” (chaired session).
October 29, 2004 University of Virginia School of Law, The Center for Children, Families and the Law, Conference on The State Construction of Families: Foster Care, Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption. Presented “Remove the Threat, Not the Child: A Test Case for the Public Health Approach.”
October 14, 2004 Harvard Law School, Conference on Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. Presented “Undeserved Trust: Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Treatment of De Facto Parents” (co- chaired conference with Professor Mary Ann Glendon).
August 1, 2004 Southeastern Association of American Law Schools, Panel on Lawrence v. Texas. Presented “The Case for Supporting Marriage.”
May 27, 2004 Law & Society Association, 40th Annual Meeting, Conference on Law, Power, and Injustice: Confronting the Legacies of Sociolegal Research. Presented "Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: The Cost of Failing to Grasp Sociolegal Research.”
April 7, 2004 Medical University of South Carolina, Presidential Scholars Conference. Presented “The Malpractice Premium ‘Crisis’: Expected or Intended?”
March 17, 2004 St. Louis University School of Law, Center for Health Law Studies. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Deception in Teaching Practices at Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals.”
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March 5, 2004 University of South Carolina, Conference on Imaging and Imagining Nanoscience & Engineering. Presented “Legal Regulation of Nanotechnology: Can Regulation & Technology Co-Evolve?”
March 1, 2004 George Mason University School of Law. Presented “The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings.”
February 19, 2004 Helping Families Change, Conference 2004, Auckland, New Zealand. Presented “Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings: Its Role in Family Intervention” and “The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children After Divorce: The Need for Intervention with Families in Transition.”
January 29, 2004 Maine State Bar Association, Samoset, Maine. Presented “Keynote: Using Social Science Research to Improve Judicial Decisionmaking.”
January 4, 2004 Federalist Society, Annual Faculty Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Presented “Evaluating Marriage: Does Marriage Matter to the Nurturing of Kids?”
December 11, 2003 University of Wales, School of Medicine and the National Health Service Trust, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Presented “The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings.”
December 9, 2003 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, London, England. Presented “Predicting Sexual Exploitation in Families Where One Child Has Been Victimized.”
December 8, 2003 Coventry and Warwickshire Child Health Education Group, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, England. Presented “Incest: Who is the Next Victim?”
November 14, 2003 University of Maryland School of Social Work, Brown Bag Research Series. Presented “Incest: Who is the Next Victim?”
August 29, 2003 International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect, IXth Regional European Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Warsaw, Poland. Presented “Getting Judges to Recognize the Threat Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings: The Essential Role of an Interdisciplinary Approach.”
July 8, 2003 Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Florence, Italy. Presented “Making Child Abuse Research Work to Protect Kids” (session organizer).
June 27, 2003 International Society of Family Law, North American Conference, University of Oregon School of Law. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Hurdles Facing Families that Want to Limit the Use of Deceased Patients for Training Purposes.”
June 7, 2003 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, hosted by the Widener University School of Law. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Deception in Teaching Practices at Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals.”
April 23, 2003 University of Maryland School of Law. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Teaching Pelvic Examinations on Women Under Anesthesia Without Their Consent.”
19 March 20, 2003 University of Florida Levin College of Law, Center on Children and the Law, Conference on Children, Culture, and Violence: Myths, Images and Realities. Presented “Serial Offenders: Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care.”
March 12, 2003 Harvard Law School, Meeting on the Direction of Family Law. Presented "The American Law Institute’s False Promise to Protect Children of Cohabiting Unions.”
January 31, 2003 Florida State University College of Law. Presented “The Cradle of Abuse: Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings.”
September 26, 2002 Symposium on Children and Youth at Risk, Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 2002, Tokyo, Japan. Presented “Predicting Sexual Exploitation in Families Where One Child Has Been Victimized” and “Legal Research on State Protection of Children: Methods and Challenges” (co- presenter).
August 2 –7 , 2002 International Society of Family Law, 11th World Conference on Family Life and Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark & Oslo, Norway. Presented “Infertility and Gestational Agreements: Does Infertility Matter to Family Functioning?”
July 30, 2002 Southeastern Association of American Law Schools. Presented “Unauthorized Practice: Teaching Pelvic Examinations on Women Under Anesthesia Without Their Consent.”
June 15, 2002 Third International Conference on Child & Adolescent Mental Health, Brisbane, Australia. Presented “Evaluating the Danger Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to the Victim’s Siblings: Its Role in Family Intervention.”
June 14, 2001 International Society of Family Law, North American Regional Conference, Queen’s University Faculty of Law, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Presented “Evaluating the Threat Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings.”
June 1, 2001 Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Psychology, Squaw Valley Conference, Squaw Valley, California. Presented “The Biology of Incest: Evaluating the Threat Posed by a Sexually Predatory Parent to a Victim’s Siblings.”
June 2, 2001 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, hosted by the Boston University School of Law. Presented "Private Contracting in Medicare.”
October, 2000 Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law, Third Annual Conference, University of Indiana School of Law. Presented “Adopted Children, Family Structure, and Abuse.”
July, 2000 International Society for Family Law, 10th World Conference, Brisbane, Australia. Presented “Children at Risk: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children After Divorce.”
September, 1999 Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Presented “The Law and Biology of Child Sexual Abuse.”
July, 1999 Southeastern Association of American Law Schools, Young Scholars Workshop. Presented “Family Structures, Child Sexual Abuse and Custody Decisions.”
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PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
July 11, 2012 Eastern Virginia Medical School, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds. Presenting “Addressing the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research: Learning from the Jesse Gelsinger Case” (upcoming).
March 2, 2012 Eastern Virginia Medical School, On Being A Doctor course. Presented “Health, Law & Bioethics.”
February 29, 2012 Eastern Virginia Medical School, Endocrine Grand Rounds. Presented “Addressing the Influence of Money and Prestige in Human Research: Learning from the Jesse Gelsinger Case.”
November 12, 2011 The Brookings Institution, brainstorming session on civility and same-sex marriage reform.
June 6, 2011 The Brookings Institution Governance Studies, Roundtable Discussion on Liberty of Conscience. Participated as a “conversation starter” on Medical Workers’ Refusals to Provide or Participate in the Delivery of Certain Lawful Healthcare Services.
September 14, 2006 Conference on Marriage and the Law, Institute for American Values. Book- launching of RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY: CRITIQUE ON THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE’S PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006) (presenter).
June 1, 2006 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Maryland School of Law. Panel on “Publishing Strategies for Health Law Teachers” (moderator and presenter).
April 7, 2006 University of Maryland School of Law, Conference on The Global Advancement of Women: Barriers and Best Practices. Panel on “Best Practices: Enhancing Human Security” (moderator).
July 20, 2005 International Society of Family Law, 12th World Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah. Panel on Mentoring New Faculty (moderator).
March 18, 2004 Washington University Schools of Law & Medicine, Conference on Law and Mental Health. Luncheon Panel on “Mental Health Assessment Issues in the Justice System and Risks of Abuse to Individuals with Mental Disabilities” (moderator).
August 7, 2003 South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, 2003 Annual Convention. Panel on “Predicting Sexual Exploitation in Families Where One Child Has Been Victimized” (presenter).
July 10, 2003 International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 2K3 World Conference, Florence, Italy. Closing panel on “Report of the Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood” (reporter).
21 June 28, 2003 International Society of Family Law, North American Conference, University of Oregon School of Law. Panel on “Fostering a Mentoring Program for New Family Law Faculty” (moderator and presenter).
June 7, 2003 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, hosted by the Widener University School of Law. Panel on “Making a Difference in Health Policy” (presenter).
November 8, 2002 South East American Association of Mental Retardation, 48th Annual Conference, Crown Reef Resort, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Panel on “Legal and Ethical Issues in the Care of Adults with Disabilities” (panelist).
June 8, 2002 Health Law Teachers Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Indiana School of Law—Indianapolis. Panel on Reproductive Issues (moderator).
January 26, 2002 International Society of Family Law, Executive Council Annual Meeting, Paris, France. Presented a proposal to mentor new family law faculty.
January, 2002 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Business Meeting of the Section on Family & Juvenile Law. Round Table Discussion of Teaching Family Law (co-chair).
September, 2001 Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina, 26th Advanced Training Institute and Annual Conference. Presented “Predicting Risk of Sexual Abuse for Children Following Divorce.”
June, 2001 South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2001 Summer Institute. Presented “Addressing the Sexual Exploitation of Minors and Cracking Down on Sexual Predators.”
May 17, 2001 University of Florida Levin College of Law, Conference on Compassionate Care at the End of Life, co-sponsored by the Holland & Knight Institute and Project Grace. Presented “Barriers, Real and Perceived, to Appropriate Pain Management.”
January, 2001 Association of American Law Schools 2001 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Panel on Socio-Economics and the Future of Family Law, Section on Socio-Economics (moderator).
SELECTED GRANTS
2011 Approximately $4,000 Grant from Johnson & Johnson, Inc. to support the 2011 Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium
2009 Approximately $4,000 Grant from Johnson & Johnson, Inc. to support the Johnson & Johnson Law and Medicine Colloquium Series Inaugural Colloquium
2005 – 2006 $6,000 Subcontract with University of South Carolina to continue work on National Science Foundation Grant, “From Laboratory to Society: Developing an Informed Approach to Nanoscale Science and Technology”
2004 – 2005 $6,000 Subcontract with University of South Carolina to continue work on National Science Foundation Grant, “From Laboratory to Society: Developing an Informed Approach to Nanoscale Science and Technology”
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1999 – 2004 Approximately $30,000 Grant from Johnson & Johnson, Inc. to support the Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Law Lecture Series
August, 2003 $1,350,000 National Science Foundation Grant, “From Laboratory to Society: Developing an Informed Approach to Nanoscale Science and Technology” (co- investigator with 11 other faculty)
July, 2003 $4,500 Grant from the Office of the Interim Vice President for Research, University of South Carolina, to support a statistician for Students Assisting Seniors
May, 2003 $10,000 Grant from The Lexington Medical Center to support Students Assisting Seniors
May, 2002 $15,000 Grant from The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging, to support a project entitled “Closing the Gaps in the Medicare Assistance Programs for the Low- Income Elderly” (with co-principal investigator with Wanzer Drane, School of Public Health) o Solicited in-kind contributions from local businesses, including Kinko’s, Forms & Supplies, Cribb’s Bakery, and Stuffy’s
December, 2001 $175,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation, “Philosophical and Social Dimensions of Nanoscale Research: Developing a Rational Approach to a Newly Emerging Science and Technology,” (co-investigator with 12 other faculty in 6 departments)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Law School Dialogue Series, Founder
2010 American Law Institute, Co-Chair for New Members Dinner, 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
2001 – Present Family & Juvenile Law Section, Association of American Law Schools. Chair (2009 – Present); Chair-Elect (2008 – 2009); Secretary-Treasurer (2007 – 2008); Member, Executive Committee (2001 – Present); Chair, Mentoring Program (2001 – 2006)
2003 – Present Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care, Association of American Law Schools. Chair (2005 – 2006), Chair-Elect (2004 – 2005), Secretary (2003 – 2004)
2007 – Present Virginia Marriage Commission, Member
2001 – 2004 Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital, Ethics Committee, Member
1999 – 2004 Palmetto Health Alliance, Core Residency Program, Lecturer
2000 – 2002, 2004 University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Capstone Month, Lecturer
2002 – 2003 American Bar Association, Schwab Family Law Essay Contest, Judge
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ASSISTANCE TO LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY BODIES
2011 Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy of New York, U.S. House of Representatives Legislative Consultant on Informed Consent in Medical Teaching
2011 Senator Christopher Shank, Maryland State Senate Legislative Consultant on Same-Sex Marriage Legislation
2009 Governor John Lynch, Governor of New Hampshire Legislative Consultant on Same-Sex Marriage Legislation, resulting in religious liberty exemptions
2009 Senator Michael McLachlan, Minority Whip, Connecticut Senate Legislative Consultant on Same-Sex Marriage Legislation, resulting in religious liberty exemptions
2006 – 2007 Delegate Robert Bell, Virginia House of Delegates Legislative Consultant on Informed Consent Legislation, resulting in legislation to require specific consent for pelvic exams performed for teaching purposes
2002 – 2004, 2007 Representative David Orentlicher, Indiana House of Representatives Legislative Consultant on Child Protection and Bioethics Legislation, resulting in legislation to protect all children in the home in instances of incest with one child and to exclude alleged offenders from the home
2002 – 2004 Democratic Minority Leader, Representative James Smith, South Carolina House of Representatives Legislative Consultant on Lewis Blackman Patient Protection Act, enacted in 2004
2003, 2008, 2009 State of Minnesota, State Board of Law Examiners Drafter, Family Law Question, Minnesota Bar Exam
2002 – 2004 Covenant Marriage Study Committee, State of South Carolina (created by Joint Resolution of the South Carolina General Assembly) Member
2001 Office of Insurance Services, State Budget and Control Board, State of South Carolina. Member, Evaluation Panel for the State Health Plan Contract—Administrative Services Only (ASO)
Spring, 2000 South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners Expert Reviewer on Disciplinary Matters
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
24 2003 – Present Legal Scholarship Network of the Social Science Research Network Founder and Co-Editor, “Young Scholars Law Journal”
2004 – Present Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Editor, “Reviews in Medical Ethics”
2003 – 2005 Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association Editor, Law & Medicine Column
2000 – 2003 Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Newsletter Contributing Editor
2000 – 2002 Carolina Healthcare Business Legal Editor
PEER REVIEW
September 16, 2011 St. Louis University School of Law, Center for Health Law Studies, 2011 Health Law Scholars Workshop, Commenter
2011 Yale Law Journal, article entitled “Sexual Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage: An Argument from Bisexuality,” Outside Reviewer
2011 Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Hire of Chair in Family Law
2011 William & Mary School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
July 23, 2010 William & Mary School of Law, Second Annual Family/Children & Law Junior Faculty Workshop
July 16-17, 2009 Washington and Lee University School of Law, Children and the Law Young Scholars Workshop, Co-organizer and Co-host (with Professor Joan Shaughnessy)
2008 University of Colorado Law School, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2008 Aspen Publishers, Reviewer for Managing Editor
2008 University of Michigan Press, Reviewer for Acquisitions Editor
2008, 2009 Cambridge University Press, Reviewer for Book Acquisition Editor
2007 Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion
2007 Western New England College School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Tenure
2006 Boston University School of Law, Outside Reviewer for Appointment and Tenure
2006 University of Indiana—Indianapolis, Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion
2004 IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Peer Reviewer
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2003 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion
2003 Cambridge University Press, Reviewer for Journals Acquisition Editor
2002 – 2003 American Public Health Association, Peer Reviewer
2002 Aspen Publishers, Inc., Reviewer, Insurance Law and Policy, a casebook by Professor Tom Baker
2002, 2005 Health Law Scholars Workshop, co-sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and Saint Louis University Center for Health Law Studies, Originator of Concept and Member of Selection Committee
2000 Child and Family Law Quarterly (British publication), Peer Reviewer
1997, 2001, 2002 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Peer Reviewer
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
1997 – 1998 MAYOR, DAY, CALDWELL & KEETON, L.L.P., Houston, Texas Associate, Health Care Law
1996 – 1997 FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI, L.L.P., Houston, Texas Associate, Health Care Law—Administrative
1995 – 1996 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, Jackson, Mississippi Law Clerk, Chambers of The Honorable E. Grady Jolly, Circuit Judge
1989 – 1992 HUNTON & WILLIAMS, Richmond, Virginia Legal Assistant, Public Finance Team—Health Care Finance Subteam
EDUCATION
May, 1995 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, Charlottesville, Virginia Juris Doctor o Virginia Law Review o Order of the Coif o Armour Scholar (full scholarship) o Charles J. Frankel Award in Health Law o Virginia Bioethics Network. Researched and completed process of incorporating and securing 501(c)(3) status for statewide consortium of hospital ethics committees
May, 1989 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Charlottesville, Virginia Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction, Majors in Religious Studies and Biology o Phi Beta Kappa o Omicron Delta Kappa o Miller Scholar (top student in the Department of Biology) o Virginia Scholar (merit scholarship) o Recipient of Lincoln-Lane and Ledger Star merit scholarships
26 o Echols Scholar
ADMITTED
Texas, 1995; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1996
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