Maxwell Mehlman is the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the Case School of Law and Professor of Biomedical Ethics in the Case School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is co-author of Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy and author of Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of […]

Lars Noah is a law professor at the Fred G. Levin College of Law of the University of Florida in Gainesville and author of Law, Medicine and Medical Technology: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (Foundation Press, 2006).

Lewis Grossman is a professor at Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., and co-author of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd ed. (Foundation Press, 2007). His interests include civil procedure, food and drug law and legal history. He is of counsel at the law firm of Covington & Burling.

Frances Miller is a professor of law emerita at Boston University School of Law. Her interests include health law, food and drug law, biotechnology and genetics, comparative health systems, competition vs. regulation in health care and trusts and estates.

Mary Ann Chirba is a professor of legal reasoning, research & writing at the Boston College Law School in Newton, Mass.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) resource about the development and approval of new drugs.

Dec. 18, 2006, The New Yorker article by Dr. Jerome Groopman about the Abigail Alliance case.

Freethought Day commemorates an Oct. 12, 1692, evidentiary decision by William Phipps, governor of the Colony of Massachusetts, that ended the Salem witch trials. An outdoor observance marking the anniversary is held each year in Sacramento, Calif.

National Urban League, the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to empowering African-Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.