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Roger B. Dworkin

Robert A. Lucas Professor Emeritus of Law
Contact Information
dworkin [at] indiana [dot] edu  
(812) 855-7995  
 
Education
A.B. at Princeton University, 1963
J.D. at Stanford University, 1966
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Background
  • Private Practice, San Diego, Calif., 1967-68
  • Professor of Biomedical History, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1980-82.
Biography

Roger Dworkin was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton University. He earned his J.D. at Stanford University, where he served on the board of editors for the Stanford Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. A graduate of Princeton and Stanford universities and a nationally recognized expert on the responses of the legal system to medical and biological technology, Professor Dworkin is the author of three books and dozens of articles.

Dworkin, Roger

In his 39 years of teaching at Indiana Law, Dworkin taught courses including Torts, Advanced Torts, Law and Medicine, and Law and Biomedical Advance. He is a winner of the Wallace Teaching Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. Students for decades have named him among the finest teachers in their lifetime, citing his ability to teach them to think carefully and critically about the substance of the law.

He is a Nelson Poynter Senior Scholar and director of medical studies at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions.

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