Professor Jennifer S. Bard
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Bard, Jennifer S. Alvin R. Allison Professor of Law and Director, Health Law Program, 2003 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neuropsychiatry, TTU School of Medicine Director, Health Law Program (806) 742-3990 x349 Email: |
Admitted to practice in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, District of Connecticut.
Professor Bard graduated from Yale Law School after studying law and philosophy at Oxford University. Following a clerkship with the Honorable Frank H. Freedman, Chief Federal District Court Judge, District of Massachusetts, Professor Bard was a litigation associate with Shearman & Sterling in New York for six years where she worked on complex commercial litigation in the fields of Antitrust, Securities Law, International Law and Art Law. In 1995, she moved to the AIDS Action Council of the Government Affairs Department as a health policy analyst in Washington, DC.
She has been an Assistant Attorney General in the Connecticut Attorney General's Office where she investigated Medicaid Fraud andWhistle Blower complaints. Before joining the TTU Law Faculty she taught graduate and medical students as an Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health and Research Director for the Program on Legal and Ethical Issues in Correctional Health for the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
Other appointments include a position as scientist for Sealy Center for Vaccine Development; Adjunct Professor for the University of Houston Law Center; and Associate Member, Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston. Professor Bard has joint appointments at the Law School and at the Medical School. She is a member of the TTUHSC Institutional Review Board. Professor Bard writes and lectures in the areas of bioethics, public health law, medical malpractice, the insanity defense and correctional health.
Degrees
A.B., Wellesley College, 1983
J.D., Yale University School of Law, 1987
M.P.H., University of Connecticut, 1997
Courses
Torts, Public Health, Medical Malpractice, Insurance Law, Correctional Health Care Bioethics, and Assisted Reproductive Technology
Selected Publications
Book Review, “Reflections on an Impossible Profession: A First-Hand Account of the Development of Contemporary, Multi-Disciplinary Bioethics,” 9 Depaul Journal of Health Care Law 1149.
“Standing Together: How Bioethics and Public Health Can Join Forces to Provide Equitable Health Care” 5 American Journal of Bioethics 2005; 5(5):W20.
“Re-arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Why Insanity Defense Law Reform is not enough to Solve the Problem of Crimes Committed by the Mentally Ill”, 5 Hous J. Health L. & Pol’y 1 (Spring 2005).
"When A Woman Doesn't Need a Man: Legal Issues Regarding Cloning as an Infertility Treatment," Journal of Biolaw and Business, 3(1), Spring 1998.
"The Diagnosis is Anencephaly and the Parents Ask About Organ Donation: Now What? A Guide for Hospital Counsel and Ethics Committees," Western New England Law Review, 21(1), 1999.
"A Shot In the Arm For America: Mass Vaccination Not The Answer To Anthrax Scare," Hartford Courant, November 4, 2001.
"Unjust Rules for Insanity," (The Andrea Yates Verdict) The New York Times, March 13, 2002.
"How Can We Learn From Our Mistakes: The Legacy of the Anthrax Vaccine," Health Law News, Volume XV, Number 3, p. 8, April 2002.
Grant Funding
Principle Investigator, Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Services The Law, Policy, and Ethics Core (LPEC) provides support for the Western Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense. and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (WRCE) through research, study, and analysis of policy, laws, and regulations which impact research and scientists in biodefense. Currently developing teaching materials for investigators conducting biodefense related human subject research overseas.
Works in Progress
Review of "Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts" by Michele Goodwin for Journal Of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Review of Legal Issues in Assisted Reproductive Technology, by Judith Daar (to be published in American Journal of Bioethics.)
The Myth of Competency: An Analysis of Capital Defendants Seeking to Represent Themselves? (In progress).
An Update: Are Anencephalic Infants Still Viewed As A Potential Source of Organ Donation: Ten Years After the AMA’s Withdrawal of its Proposal? (in progress)
Principal Speaking Engagements
Access to mental health care in prison, AALS Annual Meeting,
Section on Mental Disability (January 4, 2007)
“Bioethics at the Crossroads of Public and Private Health Care Decisions” sponsored by the Department of Medical Ethics at Northern California Kaiser Permanente, March 3, 2007
XXXth International Congress of the Academy of Law and Mental Health (“IALMH”), June 25-30, 2007, Padua, Italy
“Teaching Difficult and Sensitive Topics in Health Law”, ASLME National Health Law Teachers Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June 1, 2006
Current Legal Issues in Bioethics, Bioethics Retreat, Lake Tahoe, California, June 25, 2006
“Tort Reform as a Threat to the Public’s Health”
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Health Law Teachers Conference,
Houston , Texas , June 2, 2005
“Class and Legal Education”, Society of American Law Teachers Teaching Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 15, 2004
“Protecting Human Subjects against the Threat of Public Health Crisis”, Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, September 4, 2004
What Do Law Students Know About the Recent History of Public Health?
A poster presentation of a pilot study to survey law students about their level of awareness.
ASLME National Health Law Teacher’s Conference June 4-5 2004, Newark, New Jersey
“Facing the New Menace: Medical, Legal, Social and Ethical Issues in Treating Hepatitis C among the Female Incarcerated Population” American Public Health Association’s 131 st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 15-19, 2003
“Balancing the Risks: Legal and Ethical Issues in Smallpox Vaccine Trials with Children”,
American Public Health Association’s 131 st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA,
November 15-19, 2003
“Exposing the Pedagogy of Professionalism: Finding Consensus in Medicine’s Contract with Society”, Panel Member, the 2003 Generalist in Medical Education Conference
Washington , D.C. November 7-8, 2003
“What’s the Rush? Ethical and Legal Issues When a Family and Hospital Disagree over Termination of Ventilator Support from a Dead Patient” American Association of Bioethics and the Humanities, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, October 22-24, 2003
“Legal and Ethical Issues in the Medical Care of Women Prisoners”, American Correctional Health Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, October 7, 2003.
“Teaching About The Next Public Health Crisis: Hepatitis C in the Prison System,” ASLME Health Law Teachers Conference, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, DE, June 5-8, 2003.
Discussion Leader, Breakout Session: “Case Identification: Proactive vs. Reactive,”
Management of Hepatitis C in Prisons Conference, San Antonio, TX, January 24-26, 2003. Sponsored by the University of Minnesota, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and The Society for Correctional Physicians.
“Requests for Retrieval of Sperm from the Dead or Nearly Dead,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Fifth Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, October 27, 2002.
“The Future of the Insanity Defense,” Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA, October 17, 2002.
“Research On The Most Vulnerable Children of All: The Unborn,” Friends Research
Institute Conference, Ethics of Research with Children, San Francisco, California, May 7, 2002.
“Immaculate Gestation? How Will Ectogenesis Change Current Paradigms of Social Relationships and Values,” presented at The Artificial Womb and Designer Babies: The End of Natural Motherhood? Conference, Oklahoma State University, Ethics Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 22-23, 2002.
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