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The Columbus School of Law at Catholic University

George P. Smith, II
Professor

smithg@law.edu

 

Professor George P. Smith joined the law faculty in August, 1977 as an ordinary law professor. 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 are law, science and medicine - specifically bioethics and health law. He is the Founding Faculty Editor of The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy here at the Law School. He has held over 60 research appointments with institutions including: the medical schools at the universities of Chicago, Columbia, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, as well as the universities of Arizona State; Auckland; New Zealand; British Columbia; Cambridge; McGill; Oxford; Sydney, Australia; The Hoover Institution, The Max Planck Institute, Germany; The Rockefeller Foundation; Bellagio, Italy, Trinity College at Dublin University; Dartmouth College; The Free University of Berlin; Princeton Seminary and the divinity schools at Cambridge, Yale and Vanderbilt.

In 1984, Professor Smith received an Australian-American Fulbright award to teach at the University of New South Wales as The Fulbright Visiting Professor Law and Medical Jurisprudence. He has also held teaching appointments as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2005, and as the Parsons Visiting Professor of Law at The University of Sydney in 2003 and in 1998, and as Visiting Professor of Law at The University of New South Wales in 2001, 1990 and 1987.

Widely published and recognized as a leading national and international scholar, he has a bibliography of over 180 entries which includes 13 books, 18 monographs and 140 law review articles and essays. His contributions to the legal profession were recognized by Indiana University in 1998 when he was awarded an LL.D. degree, Honoris Causa. He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century as well as WHO’s WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION and WHO’s WHO in AMERICAN LAW. He is a life member of the American Law Institute.

BOOKS

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND BIOTECHNOLOGY: A SEARCH FOR PRINCIPLED DECISIONMAKING. Springer Verlag, 2005.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND BIOMEDICINE. The Netherlands: Kluwer International, 2000.

FAMILY VALUES AND THE NEW SOCIETY: DILEMMA OF THE 21ST CENTURY. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Books, 1998.

LEGAL AND HEALTHCARE ETHICS FOR THE ELDERLY. Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis, 1996.

BIOETHICS AND THE LAW: MEDICAL, SOCIO-LEGAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DIRECTIONS FOR A BRAVE NEW WORLD. Lanham, Md.: Rowman Littlefield/University Press of America, 1993.

FINAL CHOICES: AUTONOMY IN HEALTH CARE DECISIONS. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 1989.

THE NEW BIOLOGY: LAW, ETHICS, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY. New York: Plenum Press, 1989.

MEDICAL-LEGAL ASPECTS OF CRYONICS: PROSPECTS FOR IMMORTALITY. Port Washington, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1983.

ETHICAL, LEGAL AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES TO A BRAVE NEW WORLD, (2 vols.) Port Washington, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1982.

GENETICS, ETHICS, AND THE LAW. New York: Associated Faculty Press, 1981.

RESTRICTING THE CONCEPT OF FREE SEAS: MODERN MARITIME LAW RE-EVALUATED. Huntington, N.Y.: R.E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1980.

Selected Decision, LEGAL NOTES AND COMMENTARIES BEFORE THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION, United States Department of State: 1966.

BOOK CHAPTERS

"Access to Health Care: Economic, Medical, Ethical and Socio-Legal Challenges," in HUMAN RIGHTS AND HEALTH CARE (D. Weisstub & G. Pinto eds.), Kluwer, 2006.

"Managing Death: End of Life Charades and Decisions," In International Library of Law, Ethics and the New Medicine (D. Thomasama, D. Weisstub & T. Kushner, eds.), Kluwer Academic Press, 2001.

"The Baby M Decision: Love's Labor Lost," In Surrogate Motherhood: Politics and Privacy (L. Gostin ed.), Indiana University, 1990.

"Long Days Journey into Night: The Tragedy of the Handicapped At-Risk Infants." In Moral Issues in Mental Retardation, edited by R. Laura and A. Ashman. Beckenham, England: Croom Helm Publishing House, 1985.

"Religion, Law and Conscience in a Brave New World." In Theological Awareness and Temporal Responsibilities. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1985.

"The United Nations and the Environment." in A World Without a United Nations. Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 1984.

"The Environment." In Government Business and Society: The Changing Contract. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review Symposium, "The Ethical Canary" by Margaret Somerville, Indiana Journal of Global Studies 9 (Spring 2001): 555.

"Review of Biology, Bioethics and the New Society by James F. Childress." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 14 (Spring 1998): 531.

"Review of The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 14 (Spring 1998): 531.

"Review essay of Children of Choice by John A. Robertson." Jurimetrics Journal 36 (Fall 1995): 115.

"Review essay of Medical Law by Ian Kennedy." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 7 (Spring 1991): 443.

"Review essay of International Medical Malpractice Law by Dieter Giesen." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 6 (Spring 1990): 437.

"Review of No Fault Automobile Accident Law by Josephine Y. King. Defense Counsel Journal 55 (October 1988): 444.

"Review of No Fault Automobile Accident Law by Josephine Y. King." Florida Bar Journal 62 (November 1988): 68.

"Review essay of Sociobiology and the Law by John H. Beckstrom." Journal of Family Law 25, no. 4 (1987): 773.

"Review of Real Property Law by Paul Goldstein," Notre Dame Law Review 61 (Winter 1986): 142

"Review essay of Legal Change: Essays in Honor of Julius Stone, edited by A.R. Blackshield." American Journal of Jurisprudence 30 (1985): 231.

"Review essay of Maritime Law: The Need for a Comprehensive Maritime Code by Gerald A. Malia." Northwestern University Journal of International Law and Business 6 (Summer 1984): 646.

"Review essay of The Scabbardless Sword: Criminal Justice and the Quality of Mercy by Harold A. Buetow." The Jurist 42 (Spring 1982): 569.

"Review of Immigration and Nationality Acts: Legislative Histories and Related Documents by Oscar M. Trelles and James F. Bailey" American Bar Association Journal 68 (August 1982): 996.

"Review of The Sterilization Controversy: A New Crisis for the Catholic Hospital?: Abortion and the Roman Catholic Church by John P. Boyle." The Jurist 40 (Spring 1980): 208.

"Review essay of Genetics, Law and Social Policy by Philip Reilly." The Jurist 38 (Summer-Fall 1978): 459.

"Review of Financing the Growth of Electric Utilities by David L. Scott." American Bar Association Journal 63 (March 1977): 322.

"Review of Pollution and the Electric Power Industry by David L. Scott." American Bar Association Journal 59 (December 1973): 1380.

"Review essay of The Procedural Status of the Individual Before International and Supranational Tribunals by W. Paul Gormley." Buffalo Law Review 16 (1967): 533.

"Review essay of Fundamentals of Legal Drafting by Reed F. Dickerson." Michigan Law Review 64 (February 1966): 767.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

"Steven P. Frankino: A Fond Farewell," 22 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 1 (2006).

"Re-validating the Doctrine of Anticipatory Nuisance," 29 Vermont Law Review 687 (2005).

"Law, Medicine, and Religion: Towards a Dialogue and a Partnership in Biomedical Technology and Decisionmaking." 21 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 169 (2005).

"The Vagaries of Informed Consent," 1 Indiana Health Law Review 109 (2004).

"Just Say No! — The Right to Refuse Psychotropic Medication in Long-Term Facilities," 13 Annals of Health Law 1 (2004).

"Human Rights and Bioethics: Formulating a Universal Right to Health, Health Care or Health Protection?" 39 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1295 (2005).

"The Public Trust Doctrine and Natural Law: Emanations Within a Penumbra," 33 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 307 (with Michael W. Sweeney) (2005).

"Law, Religion, and Medical Science: Conjunctive or Disjunctive,"  Macquarie Law Symposium Journal 9(2006).

"The Extent of Protection of The Individuals Personality Against Commercial Use: Toward a New Property Rights" 54 South Carolina Law Review 1 (2002).

"Re-evaluating The Freedom of Scientific Inquiry Through Biotechnology and Human Rights", 98 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 115 (2002).

"Distributive Justice and Health Care", 18 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, 421 (2002).

"Setting Limits: Medical Technology and The Law," 23 Sydney Law Review 1 (2001).

"A Tribute to Harry Pratter," 76 Indiana Law Journal 937 (2001).

"Allocating Health Care Resources to the Elderly", 1 Elder Law Review (2002) (An Electronic Journal Published by The University of Western Sydney, Australia. (http://www.wsa.edu.au/law/elderlaw/issueone.html)

"Euphemistic Codes and Tell-Tale Hearts: Human Assistance in End-of-Life Cases." 10 Health Matrix, Journal of Law-Medicine 175 (2000).

"Genetic Enhancement Technologies and The New Society." 4 Medical Law International 85 (2000).

"Judicial Decisionmaking in The Age of Biotechnology." 13 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 93 (1999).

"John L. Garvey: A Tribute," 49 Catholic University Law Review 1 (1999) (with Roger C. Hartley).

"Harnessing the Human Genome Through Legislative Restraint." 5 European Journal of Health Law 53 (1998).

"Terminal Sedation as Palliative Care: Revalidating a Right to a Good Death." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7 (Fall 1998): 382.

"Patient Dumping: Implications for the Elderly." Elderlaw Journal 6 (1998): 23.

"Complexities in Biomedical Decision-Making." Perspectives on Law and Public Interest 1 (1997): (An Electronic Journal Published by the University of Richmond Law School. (http://law.richmond.edu/rjolpi)

"Our Hearts Were Once Young and Gay: Health Care Rationing and the Elderly." University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 8 (Fall 1996): 1.

"Pathways to Immortality in the New Millennium: Human Responsibility, Theological Direction, or Legal Mandate." St. Louis University Public Law Review 15 (1996): 447.

"Restructuring the Principle of Medical Futility." Journal of Palliative Care 11 (Autumn 1995): 9.

"Utility and the Principle of Medical Futility: Safeguarding Autonomy and the Prohibition Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment." The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 12 (Fall 1995): 1.

"Aesthetic Nuisance: Re-Educating the Judiciary." Real Estate Law Journal 24 (Summer 1995): 26.

"Genetic Determinism or Genetic Discrimination." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 11 (Fall 1994): 23.

"Nuisance Law: The Morphogenesis of an Historical Revisionist Theory of Contemporary Economic Jurisprudence." Nebraska Law Review 74 (Fall 1995): 658.

"Accessing Genomic Information for Nonmedical Purposes." Journal of Law and Health 9 (1994-95): 121.

"Biological Determinism or Genetic Discrimination." Proceedings, 10th World Congress on Medical Law 3 (1994): 164.

"In the Beginning: A Tenth Anniversary History of The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 10 (Spring 1994): 285.

"Biomedicine and Biomedical Ethics: De Lege Lata, De Lege Ferenda."The Law Today, As Laid Down, and What Tomorrow May Bring"." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 9 (Spring 1993): 233.

"Market and Non-Market Mechanisms for Procuring Human and Cadaveric Organs: When the Price Is Right." Medical Law International 1 (1993): 17.

"Reviving the Swan, Extending the Curse of Methuselah, or Adhering to the Kevorkian Ethic?" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 (1993): 49.

"Toward an International Standard of Scientific Inquiry." Health Matrix Journal of Law-Medicine 2 (Summer 1992): 167.

"Murder, She Wrote or Was It Merely Selective Nontreatment?" Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 8 (Spring 1992): 49.

"The Price of Beauty: An Economic Approach to Aesthetic Nuisance." Harvard Environmental Law Review 15 (Winter 1991): 53 (with Griffin W. Fernandez).

"Incest and Intrafamilial Child Abuse: Fatal Attractions or Forced and Dangerous Liaisons?" Journal of Family Law 29 (August 1991): 833.

"Dedicatory Essays in Honor of Drs. Josephine Y. King and Mary J. Flaherty." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 7 (Spring 1991): ix.

"The Frankenstein Myth and Contemporary Human Experimentation: Spectre, Legacy, Curse or Imperative." BioLaw 2 (August/September 1990): S463.

"Assisted Noncoital Reproduction: A Comparative Analysis." Boston University International Law Journal 8 (Spring 1990): 21.

"The Ethics of Ethics Committees." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 6 (Spring 1990): 157.

"Stop, in the Name of Love!" Anglo-American Law Review 19 (January 1990): 55.

"The Baby M Decision: Love's Labor Lost." Law, Medicine and Health Care 16, no. 1-2 (1990): 121.

"Dedicatory Essay in Honor of Dr. Barry S. Reed." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 6 (Spring 1990): xxiii.

"Re-Thinking Euthanasia and Death With Dignity: A Transnational Challenge." Adelaide Law Review 12 (1990): 480.

"Recognizing Personhood and the Right to Die With Dignity." Journal of Palliative Care 6 (1990): 24.

"Biotechnology and the Law: Social Responsibility v. Freedom of Scientific Inquiry?" Mercer Law Review 39 (Winter 1989): 437.

"From Cutlass to Cat-o'-Nine Tails: The Case for International Jurisdiction of Mutiny on the High Seas." Michigan Journal of International Law 10 (Winter 1989): 277.

"All's Well That Ends Well: Toward a Policy of Assisted Rational Suicide or Merely Enlightened Self-Determination?" U.C. Davis Law Review 22, no. 2 (Winter 1989): 275.

"Dedicatory Essays in Honor of John L. Garvey and Raymond C. O'Brien." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 5 (Spring 1989): xi.

"Essay on William Warner Bishop, Jr.: Remembering a Gentle Giant." Michigan Journal of International Law 10 (Winter1989): 32.

"Fetal Abuse: Culpable Behavior by Pregnant Women or Parental Immunity?" Journal of Law and Health 3 (Winter 1988): 23.

"Limitations on Reproductive Autonomy for the Mentally Handicapped." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 4 (Spring 1988): 71.

"Nudity, Obscenity and Pornography: The Streetcars Named Lust and Desire." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 4 (Spring 1988): 155.

"Medico-Legal Challenges into the 21st Century." Reports of the Medico-Legal Society of Singapore (1988): 22.

"The Province and Function of Law, Science and Medicine: Leeways of Choice and Patterns of Discourse." University of New South Wales Law Journal 10 (Spring 1987): 103.

"Death Be Not Proud: Medical, Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Resource Allocation." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 3 (Spring 1987): 47.

"Dedicatory Essay in Honor of Rosemary Donley." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 3 (Spring 1987): 1.

"Intimations of Life: Extracorporeality and the Law." Gonzaga Law Review 21 (June 1986): 395.

"Procreational Autonomy v. State Intervention: Opportunity or Crisis for a Brave New World?" Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 2 (Spring 1986): 635.

"Cryonic Suspension and the Law." Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying 17 (1986-1987): 1.

"Australia's Frozen 'Orphan' Embryos: A Medical, Legal and Ethical Dilemma." Journal of Family Law 24 (October 1985): 27.

"Genetics, Eugenics, and Public Policy." Southern Illinois Law Review 1985 (Summer 1985): 435.

"Triage: Endgame Realities." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 1 (Spring 1985): 143-51.

"Dedicatory Essay in Honor of Steven P. Frankino." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 1 (Spring 1985): 1.

"Defective Newborns and Government Intermeddling." Medicine, Science and the Law 25 (1985): 44.

"Life or Death: Who Decides?" Proceedings of the Medical Legal Society of New South Wales, Australia 7 (1985): 190.

"Lost Horizons, Captain's Courageous and Disabled Newborns: Raging Against the Dying Light." Reports of the Seventh World Congress on Medical Law 1 (1985): 75.

"Sexual Autonomy or Government Intervention: Artificial Fathers and Surrogate Mothers." Reports of the World Congress on Law and Medicine (1985): 24.

"Eugenics and Family Planning: Exploring the Yin and the Yang." University of Tasmania Law Review 8 (Winter 1984): 4.

"Sexuality, Privacy and the New Biology." Marquette Law Review 67 (Winter 1984): 263.

"Quality of Life, Sanctity of Creation: Palliative or Apotheosis?" Nebraska Law Review 63 (Fall 1984): 709.

"Handicapped Babies and the Law: The United States Position." International Legal Practitioner 9 (September 1984): 86.

"The United Nations and the Environment: Sometimes a Great Notion?" University of Texas International Law Journal 19 (Spring 1984): 335.

"The Plight of the Genetically Handicapped Newborn: A Comparative Analysis." Holdsworth Law Review 9 (1984): 164.

"St. Thomas More: A Man for All Seasons, All Times . . . And All Ages." Utopia 1984, St. Thomas More College Magazine (1984): 12.

"Intimations of Immorality: Clones, Cyrons and the Law." University of New South Wales Law Journal 6 (July 1983): 119.

"Equity and Admiralty: A Turbulent Path to Manifest Destiny." Northwestern University Journal of International Law and Business 5 (Spring 1983): 65.

"The Razor's Edge of Human Bonding: Artificial Fathers and Surrogate Mothers." Western New England Law Review 5 (March 1983): 639.

"Acid Rain: A Transnational Perspective." New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law 4, no. 3 (1983): 459.

"The Iceperson Cometh: Cryonics and the Law." The Journal of Contemporary Health Issues 1 (1983): 23.

"Cryonic Suspension - A Prospect for Immortality," Congressional Record 129 (Nov. 18, 1983): E5784.

"Intrusions of a Parvenu: Science, Religion, and the New Biology." Pace Law Review 3 (Fall 1982): 63.

"Beyond the Land of Oz: Clones, Cyborgs and Chimeras." Reports of the Sixth World Congress on Medical Law 2 (1982): 15.

"The Perils and Peregrinations of Surrogate Mothers." International Journal of Medicine and Law 1 (1982): 325.

"The Promise of Abundant Life: Patenting a Magnificent Obsession." Utah Journal of Contemporary Law 8 (1982): 85.

"Artificial Insemination Redivivus: Permutations Within a Penumbra." The Journal of Legal Medicine 2 (June 1981): 113.

"Medicine, Law and Morality: The Szaszian Imperative." Proceedings, Asclepius at Syracuse: Thomas Szasz, Libertarian Humanist 1 (1981): 65.

"Great Expectations or Convoluted Realities: Artificial Insemination in Flux." Family Law Review 3 (March 1980): 37.

"Student Rights of Passage: A Full or Limited Partnership in University Governance?" Journal of Law and Education 9 (January 1980): 65.

"Marbury v. Madison, Lord Coke and Dr. Bonham: Relics of the Past, Guidelines for the Present: Judicial Review in Transition?" University of Puget Sound Law Review 2, no. 2 (1979): 255.

"An Obscure Object of Desire: Minimizing the Information Reporting Burden." Administrative Law Journal 31 (Winter 1979): 115.

"A Close Encounter of the First Kind: Artificial Insemination and an Enlightened Judiciary." Journal of Family Law 17, no. 1 (1978): 41.

"Uncertainties on the Spiral Staircase: Metaethics and the New Biology." The Pharos Medical Journal 41 (1978): 10.

"The Medico-Legal Challenges of Preparing for a Brave Yet Somewhat Frightening New World." Journal of Legal Medicine 5 (April 1977): 9.

"The Concept of Free Seas: Shaping Modern Maritime Policy Within a Vector of Historical Influence." The International Lawyer 11, no. 2 (1977): 355.

"Manipulating the Genetic Code: Jurisprudential Conundrums." Georgetown University Law Journal 64 (February 1976): 697.

"The Politics of Lawmaking: Problems in International Maritime Regulation: Innocent Passage v. Free Transit." Pittsburgh Law Review 37 (Spring 1976): 487.

"Student Participation in University and Law School Governance." Washington University Law Quarterly 1976, no. 1 (1976): 37.

"Electricity and the Environment: A Season of Discontent." Federal Bar Journal 33 (Fall 1974): 271.

"Energy and the Environment." American Paper Industry Journal 56 (1974): 26.

"The Environment and the Judiciary: A Need for Co-Operation or Reform?" Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 3, no. 4 (1974): 627.

"Toward an International Standard of Environment." Pepperdine University Law Review 2, no. 1 (1974): 28.

"Does the Environment Need a Court?" Judicature 57 (November 1973): 150.

"Stockholm. The Summer of '72: An Affair to Remember?" American Bar Association Journal 58 (November 1973): 1194.

"Apostrophe to a Troubled Ocean." Indiana Legal Forum 5 (Spring 1972): 267.

"An Ecological Perspective for Arkansas." Arkansas Lawyer 5 (1971): 54.

"La Dolce Vita: Law and Equity Merged at Last!" Arkansas Law Review 24 (Summer 1970): 162.

"For Unto Us a Child Is Born, Legally." American Bar Association Journal 56 January (1970): 43.

"On the Waterfront at the Pier's Edge: The Longshoremen's and Harbor Worker's Compensation Act." Cornell Law Review 56 (November 1970): 114.

"Artificial Insemination: No Longer a Quagmire." Family Law Quarterly 3 (March 1969): 1.

"Law in a Changing America." Arkansas Law Review 23 (Fall 1969): 557.

"Academic Aloofness: Stimulant or Depressant to Legal Education?" Journal of Legal Education 21, no. 1 (1968): 89.

"Orthodoxy v. Reformation in the Jury System: Pattern Instructions: A Resolution?" Judicature 51 (April 1968): 344.

"Through a Test Tube Darkly: Artificial Insemination and the Law." Michigan Law Review 67, no. 1 (November 1968): 127.

"When You Wish Upon a Star: The J.D. Fantasy." Journal of Legal Education 21, no. 1 (1968): 177.

"Who Needs It? J.D. Only Instant Status Symbol." Trial 3 (August-September 1967): 18.

"The Development of the Right of Assembly: A Current Socio-Legal Investigation." William and Mary Law Review 9 (Fall 1967): 359.

"Effective Instructions to the Federal Jury in Civil Cases: A Consideration in Microcosm." Syracuse Law Review 18 (Spring 1967): 559.

"Much Ado About Nothing: The J.D. Movement." Student Lawyer 11 (June 1966): 8.

"An Insurance Dilemma: Friendly and Hostile Fires." Res Gestae 10 (February 1966): 27.

"Dr. Bonham's Case and the Modern Significance of Lord Coke's Influence." Washington Law Review 41 (1966): 297.

"Friendly v. Hostile Fires." Dickinson Law Review 70 (Fall 1965): 50.

"Title 28, Section 2255 of the United States Code: Motion to Vacate, Set Aside or Correct Sentence: Effective or Ineffective Aid to a Federal Prisoner?" Notre Dame Law Review 40 (February 1965): 171.

MAJOR PAPERS

"Biotechnology, Spirituality, Modern Science and Law: Shaping or Testing the New Modernity? Or, the Curse of 'Itching Ears'," Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, December, 2006.

"Normative Standards and Health Care Resource Management," The Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, England, June, 2006.

"In God We Trust?" :Continuities and Discontinuities in Law, Science and Medicine," Center for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, April, 2006.

"Finding a Point of Equilibrium-Law, Religion and Medical Biotechnology," The Institute of Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois, March, 2006.

"Of Panjandrums, Pooh-Bahs, Parvenus and Prophets: Law, Religion, and Medical Science: Law, Religion, and Medical Science," A Dedicatory Lecture honoring Justice Michael D. Kirby, The High Court of Australia, at The Macquarie University Division of Law, Sydney, Australia, July, 2005.

"Parens Patriae, Paternalism, Autonomy and The Ulysses Contract: Pre Commitment Ambiguities and The Right to Refuse Treatment," Twenty-night Congress, International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Paris, France, July, 2005.

"Economic Efficiency, Justice, and Health Care Delivery," Twenty-seventh Congress, International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July, 2002.

"Managing Death: End of Life Charades and Decision," Twenty-fifth Congress, International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Siena, Italy, July 2000.

"Genetic Enhancement Technologies: Programming a Brave or a Confused New World," Fourth World Congress of Bioethics, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, November, 1998.

MONOGRAPHS

Of Panjandrums, Pooh-Bahs, Parvenues and Prophets: Law, Religion and Medical Science (2005), Macquarie University, Division of Law, Sydney, Australia.

Universal Human Rights and Biomedicine (2001), Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Law, Science, and Religion in a Changing World Order: Designing a Template for The Age of Biotechnology (2001), Cambridge University, England.

Complexities in End-of-Life Medical Treatment, The Mind/Body Medical Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2000).

The Elderly and Health Care Rationing, The Poynter Center for Ethics, Indiana University (2000).

The Last Right: Ethical, Legal and Philosophical Concerns (1999), Cambridge University, England.

Genetic Enhancement or Eugenic Improvement (1999), University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

The Plight of The Developmentally Disabled (1999), Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York.

Bioethics and The Administration of Justice (1998), The University of Sydney Faculty of Law, Australia.

Procreative Liberty or Procreative Responsibility (1998), The Center for the Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Developing a Standard for Advancing Genetic Health and Scientific Investigation, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California (1997).

Final Exists: Safeguarding Self Determination and The Right to be Free from Cruel and Unusual Punishment (1997), Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

Ethical Imperatives in Law and Medicine (1997), University of Texas Health Care Center, Tyler, Texas.

Land Use, Economic Jurisprudence and Nuisance Law (1996), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Challenging Family Values in The New Society, Indiana University (1996).

A Bibliography with Subject Index of Legal Theses and Dissertations at the Squire and Bodelian Libraries -Cambridge And Oxford. New York: Associated Faculty Press, 1981.

The Legacy of Peter Zenger Hampden. Sydney College, Virginia (1977).

Environmental Control in Arkansas, Office of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller (1970).



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