Kevin Outterson
Associate Professor of Law
Associate Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights
B.S., Northwestern University
J.D., Northwestern University
University of Reading, Rotary Scholar
LL.M., University of Cambridge
Interests: global pharmaceutical markets; finance and organization of health care systems; antimicrobial resistance; poverty tourism & health disparities.
Courses: US Health Care Law; FDA Law; Corporations; Health Care Transactions; Constitutional Litigation in Health Care
Professor Kevin Outterson teaches health law and corporate law at Boston University, where he co-directs the Health Law Program, currently ranked #2 in the country by US News. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics; faculty advisor to the American Journal of Law & Medicine; immediate past chair of the Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care of the AALS; and a member of the Board of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Before teaching, Professor Outterson was a partner at two major US law firms.
His research work focuses on the organization and finance of the health sector. Areas of specialization include state-based reform and global pharmaceutical markets, especially antibiotics and other antimicrobials that can degrade in usefulness over time through resistance. He leads an interdisciplinary project on the legal ecology of antimicrobial resistance, funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program on public health law. He is a faculty affiliate at the Harvard Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics.
He publishes in both legal journals (Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics; Cardozo Law Review; University of Pittsburgh Law Review; Kansas Law Review; American Journal of Law & Medicine) and peer-reviewed medical and health policy journals (Health Affairs; Lancet Infectious Diseases; Environmental Philosophy; Medical Journal of Australia; Journal of Generic Medicines; Clinical Infectious Diseases; Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics).
On behalf of The New England Journal of Medicine and other clients, Outterson recently filed an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court, supporting Vermont's prescription privacy law.
His academic papers can be found at http://ssrn.com/author=340746.
Blogging on health policy issues at www.theincidentaleconomist.com/author/mko.