Larry I. Palmer

Professor of Law and
Research Professor, Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy's Schroeder Center for Healthcare Policy

lipalmer|at|wm.edu

Degrees

LL.B., Yale Law School
B.A., Harvard University

Teaching This Coming Year (2008-2009)

Legislation, Selected Topics in Health Care Law

Notes

Currently the director of the Virginia Commonwealth University and the College of William and Mary (VCU-W&M) Health Policy and Law Initiative and has appointments at VCU as professor in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs and the Department of Social and Behavioral Health. Served four years as the Endowed Chair in Urban Health Policy at the University of Louisville and 27 years at Cornell University as law professor, vice president, and vice provost. He also has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University and the University of Virginia.

Author of Endings and Beginnings: Law, Medicine and Society in Assisted Life and Death and Law, Medicine, and Social Justice, and numerous articles dealing with law, medicine, and health policy. He is also the executive producer and author of the study guide of the prize-winning educational video "Susceptible to Kindness: Miss Evers' Boys and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study."

He is a director of the Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, and a member of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Advisory Council. Previously, Professor Palmer served as a director of the National Patient Safety Foundation, trustee of the Phillips Exeter Academy and member of the American Bar Association's Bioethics and the Law Coordinating Committee.

Professor Palmer's publications

Books

Endings and Beginnings: Law, Medicine, and Society in Assisted Life and Death (Praeger Publishers 2000).
Law, Medicine, and Social Justice (Westminster/John Know Press 1989).

Articles

Co-author, Developing a Research Ethics Consultation Service: Fostering Responsive and Responsible Clinical Research, 82 Academic Medicine 900 (2007) (with Immaculada de Melo-Martin and Joseph J. Fins).
Jay Katz: From Harms to Risks, 6 Yale J. Health Pol'y, L. & Ethics 45 (2006).
Should Liability Play a Role in the Social Control of Biobanks?, 33 J.L. Med. & Ethics 70 (2005).
Co-author, Chemopreventive Drug Treatment Subjects with Genetic Predisposition to Cancer: Prescriber Liabilty and Health Care Disparities, 5 Pharmacogenomics 31 (2004) (with Robert C. G. Martin and David W. Hein).
The Legal and Political Future of Physician-Assisted Suicide, 289 MsJAMA 2282 (2003).
Genetic Health and Eugenics Precedents: A Voice of Caution, 30 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 237 (2003).
Disease Management and Liability in the Human Genome Era, 47 Vill. L. Rev. 1 (2002).
The Integrity of Death: Resolving Dilemmas in Medicine, 27 Cornell L. Forum 1 (2000).
Patient Safety, Risk Reduction, and the Law, 36 Hous. L. Rev. 1609 (1999).
Institutional Analysis and Physicians' RIghts after Vacco v. Quill, 7 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 415 (1998).
Paying for suffering: The Problem of Human Experimentation, 56 Md. L. Rev. 604 (1997).
In Vitro Fertilization as a Social Experiment, 12 Human Reproduction 1617 (1997).
Who Are the Parents Biotechnological Children?, 35 Jurimertics 18 (1994).
The Legal Significance of Gestation, 20 Cornell L.F. 9 (1993).
Implications legales et morales de la construction sociale de la sante: le syndrome d'alcoolisme foetal aux Etats-Unis [The Ethical and Legal Implications of a Social Construction of Health: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the United States], Sciences Sociales et Sante vol. IX, n. 3 (Sept. 1991).
Ethical and Legal Implications of Diabetes Self-Management, 8 Practical Diabetology 2 (1989).
Research with Human Subjects as a Paradigm for Teaching, 16 Law, Medicine & Health Care 183 (1988).
Confronting Medical Ethics, 109 Cambridge L.J. 73 (1988).
No Rights for Sperm Donors, 121 N.J. L.J. 129 (1988).
The Search for Caring and Justice: The Social Functions of Medicine and Law, 14 Cornell L.F. 61 (1987).
Dealing with Terminally Ill Patients: An Institutional Approach, 9 Cornell L.F. 12 (1982).
Adoption: A Plea for Realistic Constitutional Decision-making, 11 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (1979).
The Positions of Justices Stewart and White on the Death Penalty, A Study of Two Perspectives on Discretion, 70 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 194 (1979).
The Appellate Court Role in Mandatory Sentencing Schemes, 26 UCLA L. Rev. 753 (1979).
Biomedical and Behavioral Research on Prisoners: Public Policy Issues in Human Experimentation, in Appendix to Report and Recomendations, Research Involving Prisoners, no. 14, The National Commission for Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1976).
Should Prisoners Be Permitted to Serve as Subjects of Research?, 3 Cornell L.F. 6 (1976).
The High Priests Questioned or at Least Cross-Examined: A Comment on Jay Katz's Experimentation with Human Beings, 5 Rutgers-Cam. L.J. 237 (1974).
Implementing the Obligation of Advocacy in Review of Criminal Convictions, 65 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 267 (1974).
A Model of Criminal Disposition: An Alternative to Official Discretion at Sentencing, 62 Geo. L.J. 1 (1973).

Book Chapters

Checkerboard Segregation in the 1950s, in Law Touches The Hearts of Children: A Generation Remembers "Brown v. Board of Education" (Bonnie & Robinson, eds., Vanderbilt Univ. Press, in press).
Co-author, Looking for Trouble in All the Right Places: Scanning for "Electronic Signatures" Associated with High Risk Clinical Situations, in Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Department of Defense, publication #05-0021-3, February 2005) (with Gabriel J. Escobar, et al.).
Medical Liability for Pharmacogenomics, in Pharmacogenomics: Social, Ethical, and Clinical Dimensions (Rothstein ed., John Wiley & Sons 2003)
Writing Law, in Writing and Revising the Disciplines (Monroe ed., Cornell University Press 2002).
Understanding the Medical Malpractice Crisis, in Critical Thinking: Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum (Grinols ed., Wadsworth 1988).

Other

Highland Voices: Daily Readings for Lent (contributed original meditations a book of meditations by members and staff by Highland Presbyterian Church, Louisville, KY, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).
Co-author, Report, Quarantine and Isolation: Lessons Learned from SARS, A report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)(with M. Gabriela Alcalde, et al., 2003).
Book Review, Private Commissions, Assisted Reproduction, and Lawyering, 38 Jurimetrics (1998) (reviewing Janet Dolgin, Defining the Family: Law, Technology and Reproduction in an Uneasy Age; Cynthia B. Cohens ed., New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation.
Book Review, Newsletter, National Patient Safety Foundation, Focus on Patient Safety, v. 1, no. 2 (Spring 1998) (reviewing Patrice L. Spath, Investigating Sentinel Events: How to Find and Resolve Root Causes.
The Enduring Significance of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in Health Law News IX, n. 4 (June 1998) (presented at the 19th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference in Houston, Texas).
Life, Death and Public Policy, 81 Cornell L. Rev. 161 (1995) (reviewing Neil K. Komesar, Imperfect Alternatives: Choosing Institutions in Law, Economics, and Public Policy (Chic. U. Press, 1994)).
Susceptible to Kindness: Miss Evers' Boys and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Executive producer of educational video and author of accompanying study guide. Winner CINE Golden Eagle Award, Gold Plaque in the Intercom 1994 Competition, and Silver Apple in the "Health Issues and Ethics" category in 1995 National Educational Media Competition) Cornell University, 1994.
Don't Buy Me a Bread Machine for Christmas (Editorial in Perspective Section of Chicago Tribune; a version also appeared in the Ithaca Journal, Syracuse Post Standard, and the Elmira Star Gazette) (December 22, 1994).
"Opening Address" on Disease and Medicine in Modern German Cultures (Kaser and Pohland eds., Cornell University 1990).
A Choice for Women Only, Newsday: Viewpoint, April 16, 1989, at 1.
Editorial, How to Decide When Death Comes, Rochester (NY) Times-Union (Aug. 24, 1989).
Book Review, 35 J. Legal Educ. 455 (1985) (reviewing Robert F. Boruch, Joe S. Cecil and Peter H. Rossi, Solutions to Ethical and Legal Problems in Social Research.
Materials for a Course in Law and Medicine, Cornell Law School, 1980-1984 (unpublished with H. Richard Beresford, M.D.).
Book Review, 33 J. Legal Educ. 556 (1983) (reviewing George P. Smith, Genetics, Ethics, and the Law).
Book Review, 66 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 106 (1975) (reviewing Adennas, Punishment and Deterrence).
Book Review, 119 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1066 (1971) (reviewing Lloyd A. Fallers, Law without Precedent: Legal Ideas in Action in the Colonial Courts of Busoga (U. Chic. Press, 1969)).

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