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Gerald S. Schatz, J.D. Assistant Professor Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences College of Human Medicine & Adjunct Professor, College of Law Michigan State University C-204 East Fee Hall East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1316 U.S.A. E-mail: schatzg@msu.edu, gerald.schatz@hc.msu.edu Phone: (517) 355-3499 Fax: (517) 353-3289 |
Gerald S. Schatz, JD is Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine and Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, and Adjunct Professor, College of Law; Michigan State University. He developed the joint seminars in International and U.S. Law and Ethics of Human Subjects Research, in the College of Human Medicine and the College of Law. He is a lawyer, ethicist, and policy analyst, with a background in biomedical ethics, public ethics, science policy, and domestic and international public law. His teaching and research are in interrelationships of ethics, medicine, biomedical and behavioral research, and law, especially in the protection of human subjects of research.
He has served on the professional staffs of the Committee on Government Operations, of the U.S. House of Representatives; the National Academy of Sciences; and the National Science Foundation. He developed and taught the Biomedical Ethics Law course at the Graduate School of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, at the National Institutes of Health. He has been an Adjunct Professor of health law in the University of Baltimore Graduate Program in Legal and Ethical Studies and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Center for Clinical Bioethics. He has served on the Institutional Review Boards of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Georgetown University and on the Animal Care and Use Committee of the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. He serves on the Board of the Medical Ethics Resource Network of Michigan.
Mr. Schatz drafted the 2000 Jessup International Law Moot Court problem, "The Case of the Vaccine Trials," involving more than 300 law schools from 55 countries in a simulated legal and ethical controversy concerning medical experimentation in resource-poor countries. He co-edited the American Bar Association's Federal Administrative Dispute Resolution Deskbook, is a corresponding editor of International Legal Materials, and has written on medical confidentiality and on ethical and legal issues in protection of human subjects of research. His recent work includes the Introductory Note to World Health Organization: Revision of the International Health Regulations, in International Legal Materials (September 2005); International Health Regulations: New Mandate for Scientific Cooperation, in the ASIL Insight series of the American Society of International Law (Aug. 2, 2005); International Law and Biomedical Ethics, in Prof. Giovanni Russo’s new Encyclopedia of Bioethics; and Are the Rationale and Regulatory System for Protecting Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Obsolete and Unworkable, or Ethically Important but Inconvenient and Inadequately Enforced?, the lead article in the Winter 2003 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy.
He is a graduate of San Francisco State College and the District of Columbia
School of Law, with legal internships in the Honors Program of the Office
of General Counsel, of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and at the
Administrative Conference of the United States. He is admitted to the Bars
of the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and federal courts including the
Supreme Court of the United States.
