Rob Schwartz

Bio

Professor Schwartz received his B.A. in Philosophy at Stanford and graduated from Harvard Law School. He served as law clerk to the High Court of American Samoa in Pago Pago before moving to New Mexico to practice Indian Law. In 1976 he left practice to join the faculty at the University of New Mexico. He has been a visiting professor at Seton Hall University, Southern Illinois University, the University of Tasmania (Australia), the University of Granada (Spain), and the Indian Law Institute (New Delhi). In addition to his role as chair of the New Mexico Health Policy Commission, he has taken leave from his teaching to serve as General Counsel to the New Mexico Human Services Department, and he has worked as a WHO consultant on health law to the governments of Vietnam, Cambodia and Tonga. Professor Schwartz has been a Visiting Professor at UC Law SF several times.

Selected Scholarship

Books

• Health Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems (West Academic 8th ed. 2018) (with Barry R Furrow, Thomas L Greaney, Sandra H Johnson, Timothy S Jost, Erin C. Fuse Brown, Brietta R. Clark, Robert Gatter, Jaime S. King & Elizabeth Pendo).

• Bioethics and Law in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, 2d ed. 2016) (with Sandra H. Johnson, Robert Gatter & Elizabeth Pendo).
• Health Law (West Academic Publishing 3d ed. 2015) (with Barry R Furrow, Thomas L Greaney, Sandra H Johnson, & Timothy S Jost).
• Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics (West Academic Publishing 7th ed. 2013) (with Barry R Furrow, Thomas L Greaney, Sandra H Johnson, & Timothy S Jost).
• Health Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems (West 7th ed. 2013) (with Barry R Furrow, Thomas L Greaney, Sandra H Johnson, & Timothy S Jost).
• Law and Health Care Quality, Patient Safety, and Medical Liability (West Academic Publishing 2013) (with Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, & Timothy S. Jost).
• The Law of Health Care Organization and Finance (West Academic Publishing 7th ed. 2013) (with Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, & Timothy S. Jost).
• Bioethics and Law in a Nutshell (West 2009) (with Sandra H. Johnson).
• Health Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems (West 6th ed. 2008) (with Barry R Furrow, Thomas L Greaney, Sandra H Johnson, & Timothy S Jost).

Journal Articles

• Funding the Costs of Disease Outbreaks Caused by Non-vaccination, 43 J.L. Med. & Ethics 633 (2015) (with Charlotte A. Moser & Dorit Reiss). FULLTEXT URL
• Where Is Health Law Going-Follow the Money, 14 Health Matrix 219 (2004). URL
• Life Style, Health Status, and Distributive Justice, 3 Health Matrix 195 (1993). URL
• Medicaid Reform Through Setting Health Care Priorities, 35 St. Louis U. L.J. 837 (1991).
• Euthanasia and the Right to Die: Nancy Cruzan and New Mexico, 20 N.M. L. Rev. 675 (1990).
• Setting Limits on Autonomy: Saving Money in an Aging Society, 33 St. Louis U. L.J. 617 (1989).
• There Is No Archbishop of Science-A Comment on Elliot’s Toward Incentive-Based Procedure: Three Approaches for Regulating Scientific Evidence, 69 B.U. L. Rev. 517 (1989). URL
• Informed Consent to Participation in Medical Research Employing Elderly Human Subjects, 1 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y 115 (1985).
• Institutional Review of Medical Research: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Risk-Benefit Analysis, and “The Possible Effects of Research on Public Policy”, 4 J. Leg. Med. 143 (1983).
• Judicial Deflection of Scientific Questions: Pushing Laetrile towards Medical Closure, 13 N.M. L. Rev. 119 (1983).
• Defining the Role of the Physician: Medical Education, Tradition, and the Legal Process, 18 Hous. L. Rev. 779 (1981) (with Joan M. Gibson).

Education

• Harvard Law School
  J.D., Law

• Stanford University
  B.A., Philosophy