Program in Law and Medicine
Paul A. Lombardo, Ph.D., J.D.
Director
The Program in Law and Medicine at the Center for Biomedical Ethics provides a point of coordination for course offerings and student experiences that lie at the intersection of both fields. Students from a variety of schools, including Medicine, Nursing, Law, Graduate and Undergraduate Arts and Sciences, attend courses that are cross-listed in different disciplines to ensure interdisciplinary access.
The courses listed below with associated faculty members represent some of the offerings in Law and Medicine that are available to students who martriculate in the joint MA/JD program:
Professor Richard Bonnie (Law)
"Public Health, Ethics, and Law"
"Death, Dying, and the Law"
Professor Paul Lombardo (Bioethics/Law)
"Great Cases in the History of Bioethics"
"Genetics and the Law"
"Legal Regulation of Human Research"
"Health Care Law"
Professor Walter Wadlington (Law)
"Law and Medicine"
Professor Tom Massaro (Medicine/Law)
"Medical Care for Children"
Professor Margaret Riley (Law)
"Bioethics and the Law"
Speakers: Regularly scheduled presentations provide an opportunity for contact with nationally recognized speakers who visit the Center for Biomedical Ethics. For example, in past years, the Honorable Stewart Pollack, retired Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court recalled his deliberations in such landmark cases in bioethics as Baby M, which explored the rights of surrogate parents; Cynthia Cohen Ph.D., J.D. of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University discussed legal and ethical issues that arise from the new genetic technologies; and Alan Millstein, Esq., spoke on the role of the plaintiff's lawyer in representing the rights of research subjects.
Contact: Paul A. Lombardo
pal8g@virginia.edu