Lewis Grossman teaches and specializes in American legal history, civil procedure and food and drug law. Prior to joining the faculty of WCL, he was an associate at the D.C. firm of Covington & Burling, and prior to that, he was clerk for Chief Judge Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit.
Legal History
The Origins of American Health Libertarianism, ExpressO (2012)
This Article examines the persistent American demand for freedom of therapeutic choice as a popular...
Langdell Upside-Down: The Anticlassical Jurisprudence of Anticodification, ExpressO (2006)
At the end of the nineteenth century, the American legal community engaged in an impassioned...
Jurisprudence
'From Savigny through Sir Henry Maine': Roscoe Pound’s Flawed Portrait of James Coolidge Carter’s Historical Jurisprudence, Working Papers (2009)
In Roscoe Pound's scathing 1909 review of Law: Its Origin, Growth and Function, American jurist...
Langdell Upside-Down: The Anticlassical Jurisprudence of Anticodification, ExpressO (2006)
At the end of the nineteenth century, the American legal community engaged in an impassioned...
Constitutional Law, Generally
The Origins of American Health Libertarianism, ExpressO (2012)
This Article examines the persistent American demand for freedom of therapeutic choice as a popular...
Health Law and Policy
The Origins of American Health Libertarianism, ExpressO (2012)
This Article examines the persistent American demand for freedom of therapeutic choice as a popular...
Food and Drug Law
The Origins of American Health Libertarianism, ExpressO (2012)
This Article examines the persistent American demand for freedom of therapeutic choice as a popular...
Enhancing Food Safety: The Role of the Food and Drug Administration, Books (2010)
Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and lettuce illustrate the holes that exist...
Legal Profession
Langdell Upside-Down: The Anticlassical Jurisprudence of Anticodification, ExpressO (2006)
At the end of the nineteenth century, the American legal community engaged in an impassioned...
No subject area
Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson—Mark Elliott, Contributions to Books (2010)
The Benefits and Evils of Competition”: James Coolidge Carter’s Supreme Court Advocacy, Contributions to Books (2009)
This chapter examines the Supreme Court advocacy of James Coolidge Carter, a leading legal theorist,...
A Documentary Companion to "A Civil Action" (with Robert Vaughn), Books (2008)
Food, Drugs, and Droods: A Historical Consideration of Definitions and Categories in American Food and Drug Law, Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals (2008)
This article explores the development and interaction of the legal and cultural categories food and...
Codification and the California Mentality, Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals (1994)
This essay explores why California, almost alone among states, embraced codification of the substantive common...