Lars Noah
Visiting Professor of Law
- 2007-08
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Fax: 615-322-6631
Email: lars.noah@vanderbilt.edu
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Research Interests
Medical technology; products liability; law and medicine
Education
J.D. Harvard Law School
B.A. (Government) Harvard College
Biography
Lars Noah is a professor of law at the University of Florida, where he has taught courses in Torts, Products Liability, Medical Technology, Administrative Law, Medical Malpractice, Conflict of Laws, Food & Drug Law, and Civil Procedure. Professor Noah has published dozens of scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects as well as a casebook with Foundation Press that focuses on the regulation of medical technologies. He has served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University, University of Texas, George Washington University, Hastings, Washington & Lee and University of Maryland, and he has worked with expert committees at the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health. Before joining the faculty of the University of Florida in 1994, Professor Noah clerked for Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then practiced law for three years at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. At the University of Florida, he was UF Research Foundation Professor from 2002-05 and has been selected "teacher of the year" three times.
Representative Publications
Books
Law, Medicine, and Medical Technology: Cases & Materials, 2nd edition, Foundation Press (2007)
Articles
"The Little Agency That Could (Act with Indifference to Constitutional and Statutory Strictures)," 93 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming July 2008)
"Too High a Price for Some Drugs?: The FDA Burdens Reproductive Choice," 44 San Diego Law Review 231-58 (2007)
"Treat Yourself: Is Self-Medication the Prescription for What Ails American Health Care?," 19 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 4 (2006)
"A Postmodernist Take on the Human Embryo Research Debate," 36 Connecticut Law Review 1133 (2004)
"Medicine's Epistemology: Mapping the Haphazard Diffusion of Knowledge in the Biomedical Community," 44 Arizona Law Review 373 (2002)
"Civil Jury Nullification," 86 Iowa Law Review 1601 (2001)
"Rewarding Regulatory Intent: The Pursuit of Symmetry in Products Liability," 88 Georgetown Law Review 2147 (2000)
