A Dedicated, First-Class Faculty Alan Meisel is a law professor and the Dickie, McCamey, and Chilcote Professor of Bioethics and founder and director of Pitt's Center for Bioethics and Health Law. He has served on the staff of the President's Commission on Ethical Issues in Medicine, and on the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform.
Issues range from custody planning to job discrimination.
Another leading figure in Health Law at Pitt is Professor Lawrence A. Frolik , a national expert on the legal issues of older Americans and one of the founders of the area now known as Elder Law. Professor Frolik has written several books and numerous scholarly articles on elder law issues, and served as a congressional delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in 1995. Professor Martha Mannix , supervisor of the Elder Law Clinic, focuses on issues surrounding the mental incapacity of older adults, including guardianship and advance planning for incapacity, such as living wills and durable powers of attorney. Professor Sean O'Connor will be joining the University of Pittsburgh School of Law faculty in August 2001. His teaching areas focus on the legal issues involved in commercialization of science and high technology.