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  • Read more: Kuei-Jung Ni

    Kuei-Jung Ni

    Visiting Scholar2013-2014; summer 2016 Visiting Scholar Kuei-Jung Ni was at the Petrie-Flom Center from August 2013 through July 2014, and will rejoin the Center during the summer of 2016. Professor Ni holds an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Edinburgh School of Law. During…

    Kuei-Jung Ni
  • Read more: Jennifer D. Oliva

    Jennifer D. Oliva

    Visiting Scholar, Spring 2019Spring 2019 Jennifer D. Oliva joined the Petrie-Flom Center as a Visiting Scholar in Spring 2019. Since Fall 2019, she is an Associate Professor at Seton Hall Law where she specializes in health, FDA, and evidence law. During her time at the Petrie-Flom Center, she was an Associate Professor at the West Virginia University College of Law…

    Jennifer D. Oliva
  • Read more: Barak D. Richman

    Barak D. Richman

    Barak Richman is Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Professor of Business Administration at Duke Law School. His primary research interests include the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and healthcare policy. His work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, the New England Journal of Medicine,…

    Barak D. Richman
  • Read more: Minerva Rivas Velarde

    Minerva Rivas Velarde

    Visiting ScholarSeptember-October 2019 Minerva Rivas Velarde was a Visiting Scholar at the Petrie-Flom Center in Fall 2019, joining us from her position as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, History, and Humanities (IEH2) of the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva. Her research focuses on global health, eHealth, disability studies, and bioethics. During her time…

    Minerva Rivas Velarde
  • Read more: Francis X. Shen

    Francis X. Shen

    Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience2018 – 2020 Francis X. Shen is an Associate Professor of Law and a McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Shen Neurolaw Lab. He also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Executive Director of Education and…

    Francis Shen
  • Read more: George P. Smith II

    George P. Smith II

    Visiting ScholarJune 2014 George P. Smith is Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. He has had previous law teaching affiliations at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Georgetown, George Washington and Notre Dame. His core teaching areas are property law, land use and environmental law. His areas of specialization…

    George P. Smith II
  • Read more: Lydia Stewart Ferreira

    Lydia Stewart Ferreira

    Visiting ScholarJuly 2014 – July 2015 Lydia Stewart Ferreira is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School. She earned a MPH at Boston University, JD from Queens University as well as an LLM and PhD degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School. She clerked at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice…

    Lydia Stewart Ferreira
  • Read more: Donrich Thaldar

    Donrich Thaldar

    Visiting Researcher2022 Donrich Thaldar is a professor of law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, where he chairs the Health Law & Ethics Research Interest Group. His research interests are reprolaw and genetics and the law. He is currently principal investigator of an NIH-funded project that investigates the legal aspects of data science in health innovation in…

    Donrich Thaldar
  • Read more: John Tingle

    John Tingle

    Visiting ScholarNovember 2018 John Tingle is a Lecturer in Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham (UK) and Visiting Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. The main focus of his research is the exploration of the legal aspects of the UK government’s health quality policy initiatives, such as clinical risk management…

    John Tingle
  • Read more: Avishalom Westreich

    Avishalom Westreich

    N. Neal Pike Scholar and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law Academic Fellow Alumnus2008-2010 Avishalom Westreich is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor in the American system) at the Law School of the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan, Israel, and a Research Fellow at the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought, Shalom Hartman…

    Avishalom Westreich