Barry Furrow is a pioneer in the field of health law. He was the lead author of the
1987 casebook, “Health Law — Cases, Materials and Problems,” which was the first to
address the topic and is now in its 6th edition. He is also co-author of the treatise,
“Health Law,” which the U.S. Supreme Court has cited three times.
Professor Furrow earned his J.D. at Harvard Law School before clerking with the Superior
Court of Massachusetts and handling civil litigation and health-law cases as an associate
with the Boston firm, Palmer & Dodge.
The veteran legal educator came to Drexel from Widener University School of Law, where he
founded the Health Law Institute and earned the Jay Healey Distinguished Health Law
Teaching Award from the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. He also served as
interim Dean and Dean of the faculty at Widener University School of Law. Previously,
Professor Furrow directed the Health Law Center at the University of Detroit School of
Law, where he also served as a full-time faculty member. He has also held full-time
faculty posts at American University’s Washington College of Law and at George Mason
University School of Law. His experience also includes teaching stints in the University
of Michigan Law School and School of Public Health and the University of North Carolina
School of Law in Chapel Hill. He currently holds an adjunct teaching position at the
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and is an associate of the Center for
Bioethics of the University of Pennsylvania.
Barry Furrow’s expertise spans a wide array of health-related topics, including health
care policy, regulation and finance, patient safety, patient privacy, mental health,
provider accountability, medical ethics and bioethics, and legal issues of pain
management. He has written more than three dozen law review articles on state and federal
regulation of medical errors and patient safety, pain management, sports medicine, tort
reform, medical privacy, and regulation of scientific research. His articles have
appeared in publications including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law
Journal and Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Professor Furrow is an editorial board member and former editor-in-chief of Law, Medicine
& Health Care.
Articles
Books
Health Law, 2nd ed. (with Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, and Robert L. Schwartz) (2000)
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