The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law

Tamara Hervey LLB, PhD, FAcSS, PFHEA, MFPH, studied at Glasgow and Sheffield, and held academic posts at Durham, Manchester, Nottingham, and Sheffield Law Schools, before joining The City Law School in 2021. She is Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law ad hominem.Hervey researches, teaches, and writes on European Union health law; on comparative health law and policy; on equality law; on interfaces between biosciences and (European) law; on social rights; on legal research methodologies; and on legal pedagogy. She is author of 18 books and over 100 other publications. One of the first to the field, Hervey has been writing on EU health law since the 1990s. She works with a large network of academics across Europe and in North America.Hervey serves as Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee's Brexit Inquiries. She also served the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee Inquiry into Brexit and crossborder healthcare. She has given keynote presentationsabout EU law, trade, health and Brexit, to organizations including the Royal Society of Medicine, British Medical Association, Health Services Research UK, and the Scottish Lawyers European Group. She also gave Expert evidence to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, Republic of Ireland, on the legal implications of Brexit in the health sector. David Orentlicher is the Judge Jack and Lulu Lehman Professor at UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law and director of the UNLV Health Law Program. Widely recognized for his expertise in health law and constitutional law, Dr. O has testified before Congress, had his scholarship cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, and has served on many national, state, and local commissions. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School, Dr. O is author of Matters of Life andDeath and co-author of Health Care Law and Ethics, now in its 9th edition. He has published numerous articles and essays on a wide range of topics, including health carereform, physician aid in dying, reproductive decisions, affirmative action, and presidential power, and his work has appeared in leading professional journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), as well as in the New York Times, Time, USA Today, CNN Opinion, the Chicago Tribune, and other major newspapers.In addition to his academic background, Dr. O brings important hands-on experience. He previously directed the American Medical Association's Division of Medical Ethics, and he has worked on health care reform and other issues as a member of the Nevada legislature and the Indiana legislature.