- Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence Oglethorpe Gostin is an American law professor who specializes in
public health law . He is best known as the author of theModel State Emergency Health Powers Act and as a prolific contributor to journals on medicine and law.He received his
B.A. inpsychology from theState University of New York at Brockport in 1971 and hisJ.D. fromDuke University in 1974. He was an adjunct professor atHarvard University from 1986 to 1994 and is (as of 2007) a professor of law atGeorgetown University 's Law Center and a professor of law and public health atJohns Hopkins University 's School of Hygiene and Public Health.From 1986 to 1994, Gostin was executive director of the
American Society for Law, Medicine, and Bioethics . He worked onHillary Clinton 's health plan, serving as chairman of the health information privacy and public health committees of thePresident's Task Force on Health Care Reform . In the 1990s he was executive director of theNational Council on Civil Liberties , the British equivalent of theACLU .His proposed
Model State Emergency Health Powers Act ignited a firestorm of controversy across the ideological spectrum, fromPhyllis Schlafly toLAMBDA , for being overly broad and ripe for abuse.External links
* [http://www.publichealthlaw.net/About/AboutPDFs/GostinCV.pdf Gostin's 38 page CV with a full bibliography of his published writings]
* [http://www.publichealthlaw.net/ The Center for Law and the Public's Health site]
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