Past Events
Speaker: Mary Crossley, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Location: Wynne Courtroom, Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York Street, Indianapolis, IN
Please join the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Hall Center for Law and Health for a discussion with Mary Crossley, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law on Thursday, April 6 at 4:30pm.
Registration is now closed.
Presentation Summary:
This lecture will consider how and why the perspectives of people with disabilities challenge mainstream understandings of end-of-life decision making. First, it will briefly describe the nature of and basis for disability concerns about the liberalization of ending-life decisions, summarizing the reasons for the apprehension that many in the disability community experience surrounding treatment termination and physician-aided dying. Then, it will consider how recent conversations about racial justice issues in policing and criminal justice, promoted by the Black Lives Matters movement among others, might offer parallels to the concerns of disability advocates. These parallels are examined to help explain the concerns of disability activists and reveal them as deeply imbued with social justice commitments.
Speaker Biography:
Mary Crossley's scholarship has focused on issues of inequality in the financing and delivery of health care, encompassing topics ranging from an exploration of potential legal remedies for physician bias in medical treatment, to an examination of how recent trends in health insurance coverage function to discriminate against unhealthy people, to a consideration of how assisted reproductive technologies implicate equality concerns. She has published broadly, in journals including Columbia Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and Rutgers Law Journal. Crossley's scholarly interests are reflected in a seminar that she has developed on Health Care & Civil Rights, and she has also taught courses in Health Law, Bioethics & Law, Family Law, and Torts.
Crossley was appointed Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2005 and served as Dean from 2005-2012, focusing her leadership on initiatives relating to curricular reform, innovation programming, and promoting diversity. In 2013 she was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Law Scholar in Residence, and in 2014-15 she served as a Faculty Mentor for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Public Health Law Education Faculty Fellowship Program.
Immediately prior to coming to Pitt Law in 2005, Crossley was the Florida Bar Health Law Section Professor of Law at Florida State University and before that she was on the faculty at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, including two years of service as Associate Academic Dean. Before beginning to teach, she practiced corporate and health care law in San Francisco and New Haven, and clerked for Judge Harry Wellford on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Parking:
Due to road construction on or near campus, we recommended parking at the IU Indianapolis Sports Garage at 875 West New York Street. Please note this is a change from previous years.
Parking is available for a nominal fee (credit/debit card) at the Sports Garage, as well as the Gateway Garage.
Special Accommodations:
Individuals with disabilities who need special assistance should call (317) 278-4789 no later than one week prior to the event. Special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs.
