Education:
B.A., University of Michigan, with highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa;
J.D., Georgetown University, cum laude.

Profile:
Lecturer-in-Law, UCLA; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California Irvine College of Medicine Chair, L.A. County Bar Assn., Committee on Bioethics; Member, Community Advisory Board, Legal Aid Society of Orange County Health Care Ombuds Program; Member, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Medical Ethics Committee; Volunteer Attorney, HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance.

Subjects:
Bioethics; Health Law; Real Property; Reproductive Technologies and the Law; Wills and Trusts.

Author:
Books and Book Chapter
The New Eugenics:  Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2009)
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the  United States, contributing author (Thomson Gale, forthcoming 2008)
Health Law Stories , contributing author (Aspen Publishers, forthcoming 2008)
Reproductive Technologies and the Law (LexisNexis, 2006)
Reviewed by:Lori Andrews, Brave New Babies, 9 DePaul J. Health Care L 1356 (2006)
                      Jennifer Bard, Reproductive Technologies and the Law, 6 American Journal of Bioethics 74 (2006)
Teacher’s Manual for Reproductive Technologies and the Law (LexisNexis 2006)

Articles
Accessing Reproductive Technologies: Invisible Barriers, Indelible Harms, __ Berk. J. Gender, Law & Justice __ (2008)
Dreaming in Chromosomes (Book Review), 48 Technology and Culture 20 (2006)
The Case for a Genetic Bill of Rights (Book Review), American Journal of Bioethics (2006)
HIV and Fertility Care: Embarking on a Path of Knowledge and Access (with Eric Daar), 85 Fertility & Sterility 298 (2006)
Current Controversies in Reproductive Medicine, Commissioned Paper by the Institute on Biotechnology & the Human Future (2006)
ART and the Search for Perfectionism: On Selecting Gender, Genes and Gametes, 9 Iowa J. Gender, Race & Justice 241(2005)
State Law Regulation of Reproductive Technologies: A Study of Comity and Contrast Commissioned Paper by the Institute on Biotechnology & the Human Future (2005)
The Prospect of Human Cloning:  Improving Nature or Dooming the Species? 33 Seton Hall Law Review 511 (2003)
Book Review of The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans:  Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childbearing, and Death, by Howard Ball (NYU Press 2002), Trial Magazine (Feb. 2003)
Disclosure Dilemmas In Genetic Research:  Balancing Harms, Harmony and Humanity, 24 Whittier L. Rev. 454 (2003)
Regulating the Fiction of Informed Consent in ART Medicine, 1(4) American Journal of Bioethics 19 (2001)
Frozen Embryo Disputes Revisited:  A Trilogy of Procreation Avoidance Approaches, 29(2) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 197 (2001)
Preconception Sex Selection:  Sliding the Slope Toward Human Cloning, 1(1) American Journal of Bioethics 23 (2001)
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Pregnancy Process:  Developing an Equality Model to Protect Reproductive Liberties, 25 American Journal of Law And Medicine 454 (1999)
Resolving Disputes Over Frozen Embryos, 8 Tex. J. of Women and the Law 285 (1999)
The Future of Human Cloning:  Prescient Lessons From Medical Ethics Past, 8 So. Cal. Interdisciplinary L.J. 167 (1998)
Telemedicine:  Legal and Practical Implications, 19 Whittier L. Rev. 3 (1997)
Regulating Reproductive Technologies:  Panacea or Paper Tiger?, 34 Hous. L. Rev. 609 (1997)
Direct Democracy and Bioethical Choices:  Voting Life and Death at the Ballot Box, 28 Mich. J. L. Ref. 799 (1995)
Medical Futility and Implications for Physician Autonomy, 21 Am. J. L. & Med. 221 (1995)
Informed Consent:  Defining Limits Through Therapeutic Parameters, 4 Bioethics Bull. 1 (1995); 16 Whit. L. Rev. 189 (1995); cited by the court in Whiteside v. Lukson, 947 P.2d 1263 (1997)
A Clash at the Bedside:  Patient Autonomy v. A Physician's Professional Conscience, 44 Hastings Law J. 1241 (1993)
Selective Reduction of Multiple Pregnancy:  Lifeboat Ethics in the Womb, 25 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 773 (1992)
Editorials and Commentaries
Selling Eggs Isn’t Selling Our Souls (with Russell Korobkin), L.A. Times, Aug. 30, 2006
Church’s Civil Disobedience Is Not Aimed at Justice for All, L.A. Daily Journal, March 28, 2006
Court Rightly Limit Executive’s Medical Powers, L.A. Daily Journal, Jan. 20, 2006
Don’t Outlaw Gender Selection, L.A. Daily Journal, Nov. 8, 2005
On “First Monday,” Looming Matters of Life and Death, L.A. Daily Journal, Oct. 3, 2005
Patients Need Range of Choices in the Face of Pain and Suffering (with Erwin Chemerinsky), Daily News of L.A., April 8, 2005
Legal System Stands Strong, Avoids Constitutional Crisis, L.A. Daily Journal, Mar. 25, 2005
Oregon’s Right to Decide (with Erwin Chemerinsky), Raleigh News & Observer, March 4, 2005
GOP Congress Has Stem-Cell Initiative In Its Sites, L.A. Daily Journal, Nov. 9, 2004
The Reel Story of Human Cloning: Drama Gone Wild, posted on April 2, 2004 at www.picturingjustice.com

Tragic State: In Florida, Woman’s Life, Death Turn Into Political Game, L.A. Daily Journal, Oct. 29, 2003
Vaccine Program Against Smallpox Threatens Loss of Medical Privacy for Americans, L.A. Daily Journal, Jan 31, 2003, at 6
We Can Tackle Cloning Responsibly, L.A. Times (Orange County ed.), June 2, 2002, at B19
Setting the Stage for Future Medicine, L.A. Daily Journal, Jan. 10, 2002, at 6
Terrorists Lack Influences of Women, L.A. Times (Orange County ed.), Nov. 18, 2001, at B21.
Terrorizing Terminally Ill Patients, L.A. Daily Journal, Nov. 15, 2001, at 6
Public's Fear of Cloning Echoes Past Cries Against Technology, L.A. Daily Journal, August 17, 2001
Helping People Die With Dignity, L.A. Daily Journal, May 17, 2001, at 6
Bush Indeed Breaches Church-State Wall, L.A.Times Orange County edition, Feb. 11, 2001, at B15; also printed as Faith's White House Foothold, L.A. Daily Journal, Feb. 12, 2001, at 6
Lifeboat Ethics In The Nursery, L.A. Daily Journal, October 16, 2000, at 6
Physical Beauty Is Only Egg Deep, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 28, 1999, at A11
Contract Does Not Override A Woman's Right to Use Fertilized Eggs, L.A. Daily Journal, May 22, 1998, at 6; also printed in Orange County Reporter, June 29, 1998, at 8