Distinguished Speaker Series for 2004-2005

Mary Crossley
Florida Bar Health Law Section Professor, Florida State University School of Law

Professor Crossley teaches Health Law and Policy at Florida State University College of Law. Her research interests include disability discrimination and access to care issues for people with disabilities, as well as issues of inequality in health care more generally. Prior to joining the faculty at Florida State, she was a professor at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she also served as Associate Academic Dean. Professor Crossley served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harry W. Wellford of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced law in San Francisco and Connecticut. She received a B.A. degree in history from University of Virginia in 1984 and her J.D. degree in 1987 from Vanderbilt Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif.

Larry Palmer
Endowed Chair, Urban Health Policy, University of Louisville Institute for Bioethics, Health Law, and Policy

Professor Palmer holds appointments in the Department of Community and Family Medicine and the Institute for Bioethics, Health Law and Policy at the University of Louisville. Prior to accepting the position at the University, he was professor of law at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York. He is the author of Law, Medicine, and Social Justice (1989), Endings and Beginnings: Law, Medicine and Law in Assisted Life and Death (2000), and articles dealing with law, medicine, and health policy. Palmer is also the executive producer and author of the study guide of the prize winning educational video, Susceptible to Kindness: Miss Evers’ Boys and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.

Russell Korobkin
Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

Professor Korobkin teaches courses in Health Care Law, Negotiation, and Contracts at UCLA School of Law. He is also a Faculty Associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Professor Korobkin has written on the efficiency of managed care regulation, the Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning ERISA preemption of lawsuits against HMOs and state regulation of managed care, physician-assisted suicide, and philosophical perspectives on positive rights to health care. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2001, Korobkin held appointments at the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs, and he taught as a visitor at the University of Texas School of Law. Professor Korobkin clerked for the Honorable James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as an associate at the law firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.



George Annas
Professor of Law, Boston University School of Public Health

Professor Annas is known for his scholarship and advocacy in the fields of health law, bioethics, and human rights. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, an AAAS fellow, and has served on numerous national and state commissions and task forces related to health law and bioethics. He is the author or editor of thirteen books on health law and bioethics, including his most recent books, The Rights of Patients (3d ed., 2004) and American Bioethics: Crossing Health Law and Human Rights Boundaries (2004). He also writes a regular feature on Legal Issues in Medicine for the New England Journal of Medicine. His current teaching focus is on health care regulation and bioethics. As cofounder of Global Lawyers & Physicians, a nongovernmental organization of lawyers and physicians working collaboratively to promote human rights and health around the world, he is at the forefront of the human rights and health movement.

Peter Liebold
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, American Health Lawyers Association

Mr. Leibold serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Health Lawyers Association. Prior to accepting his job at the American Health Lawyers Association, he served as General Counsel to the Catholic Health Association (CHA) from 1996-99. He joined CHA after working at the law firm of Bryan Cave as a counsel from 1995-1996. For six years prior to his joining Bryan Cave, he served in three different capacities for Senator John C. Danforth. From 1989 to 1992, he worked as Senator Danforth’s counsel for judicial and health affairs. He then became the Senator’s legislative director and ultimately served as his chief of staff. Liebold clerked for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a graduate of Haverford College and Yale Law School.

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