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Courses

• Administrative Law
• International & Comparative Health Law
• Food & Drug Law
  
  

Research Areas

• Health law
  
• FDA law
  
• International and comparative health law
• Administrative law
  
  

Publications

ACADEMIC ARTICLES

• Recalibrating the Legal Risks of Cross-Border Health Care, 10 YALE JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY, LAW, AND ETHICS (forthcoming Winter 2010) (peer-reviewed)
  
• International Health Care Convergence: The Benefits and Burdens of Market-Driven Standardization, 26 WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 646-704 (2009) (symposium article)
  
• The Local Dilemma: Preemption and the Role of Federal Standards in State and Local Immigration Laws, 60 SMU LAW REVIEW 47-66 (2008) (symposium article)
• Patients Without Borders: The Emerging Global Market for Patients and the Evolution of Modern Health Care, 83 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 71-132 (2008)
  
• The Food and Drug Administration's Evolving Regulation of Press Releases: Limits and Challenges, 61 FOOD AND DRUG LAW JOURNAL 623-651 (2006) (with William Vodra and David Korn)
  
  

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Biopharmaceuticals: Definition and Regulation, in PRECLINICAL SAFETY EVALUATION OF BIOPHARMACEUTICALS (John Wiley & Sons 2008) (with Lincoln Tsang)
  
  

OTHER ARTICLES

• What Does Medical Tourism Say about the U.S. Health Care System?, 39 (1) THE QUAD 32-35, SMU Law School, (2008) (warning, large file size)
  
• Trends in Criminal Enforcement Against Off-Label Promotion, The American Bar Association's 21st Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime, at L-23 to L-33 (2007) (with Robert Litt)
  
• HHS OIG Issues Criteria for Evaluating State False Claims Acts, 2 JOURNAL OF PAYMENT SYSTEMS LAW 593-598 (2006) (with Dara Corrigan)
  
• Global Privacy Law Update, 20 (6) COMPUTER & INTERNET LAWYER 1-6 (June 2003) (with John Bentivoglio and Sarah Kirk)
  
  

Presentations

• A Blueprint for U.S. Immigration Reform, The DREAM Act Symposium, SMU (Apr. 9, 2009)
  
• Is Chevron Out of Gas? Current Trends in Administrative Law, APPELLATE JUDGES EDUCATION INSTITUTE, Phoenix, AZ (Nov. 14, 2008)
  
• The Local Dilemma: Preemption and the Role of Federal Standards in State and Local Immigration Laws, LatCrit XIII, Representation and Republican Governance: Critical Interrogation of Electoral Systems and the Exercise of the Franchise, SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Seattle, WA (Oct. 3, 2008)
  
• International Health Care Convergence: The Benefits and Burdens of Market-Driven Standardization, 31st Annual Health Law Professors Conference, American Society of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (ASLME), DREXEL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Philadelphia, PA (June 6, 2008)
• Commenter on Prof. Keith Aoki's "Invisible Cities: Three Local Government Models and Immigration Regulation," Colloquium on Law & Citizenship, SMU LAW SCHOOL, Dallas, TX (April 16, 2008)
• International Health Care Convergence: The Benefits and Burdens of Market-Driven Standardization, Dialogue on Cross-Border Health Care, WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, Madison, WI (March 7, 2008)
  
• When Does FDA Regulate Press Releases? And What Rules Apply?, CENTER FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, Webinar (November 15, 2007)
• The Local Dilemma: Preemption and the Role of Federal Standards in State and Local Immigration Laws, Symposium on Immigrants, Vigilantes, and Immigration Reform: Civil Rights in the 21st Century, SMU LAW SCHOOL, Dallas, TX (October 19, 2007)
  
• Biosimilars in the FDA Regulatory Context, Symposium on New Developments in Drug Approval Law, SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL, Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law, Newark, NJ (April 20, 2007) 
  
  

Media

• Bill Would Help Educate Children of Illegal Immigrants, DALLAS MORNING NEWS (April 4, 2009)
  
• Lower Costs Lure U.S. Patients Abroad for Treatment, CNN (March 27, 2009)
  
• AdvoCare's Suit Aims at Athletes Falsely Blaming Supplements for Failed Tests, F-D-C REPORTS, THE TAN SHEET (February 23, 2009)
  
• Swimmer's Fight With Carrollton Nutrition Firm AdvoCare Makes Waves, DALLAS MORNING NEWS (February 16, 2009)
  
• It's a World of Risks for Medical Tourists, LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL (December 10, 2008)
  
• Passport to Healthcare: The Emergence of High-Quality, Low-Cost Treatment Abroad, ATLANTA LIFE MAGAZINE 40-43 (January 2008)
• Employers, Insurers Consider Overseas Health Care, All Things Considered, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (November 14, 2007)
  
• Medical Tourism: Ethical Pitfalls of Seeking Health Care Overseas, 23 (11) MEDICAL ETHICS ADVISOR 121-125 (November 2007)