Director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Position:
Pro to the question "Should Performance Enhancing Drugs (Such as Steroids) Be Accepted in Sports?"
Reasoning:
"There is nothing inherently wrong with athletes using relatively safe drugs. People simply find it distasteful. It offends their aesthetic sensibilities. [...]
Tastes change, as perhaps they will when people realize that the ultimate justification for the policy against all drugs in sports is the same reason that we get upset when the neighbors paint their house purple.
"What's Wrong with Using Drugs in Sports? Nothing," USA Today, Aug. 11, 2004
Experts Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to performance enhancing drugs and sports. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to performance enhancing drugs and sports.
Involvement and Affiliations:
Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), School of Law
Director, The Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University, School of Law
Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
Deputy Director for Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Center for Genetics Research Ethics and Law, Case Western Reserve University
Recipient, Marjorie Guthrie Award, Huntington's Disease Society of America, Northeast Ohio Chapter, 2005
Recipient, President's Award, American College of Legal Medicine, 2003
Fellow, The Hastings Center, 2003
Professor of Law, CWRU, 1990-1996
Associate Professor of Law, CWRU, 1987-1990
Associate Director, The Law-Medicine Center, CWRU School of Law, 1985-1987
Assistant Professor of Law, CWRU, 1984-1987
Attorney, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, 1975-1984
Member, Phi Beta Kappa, 1970
Rhodes Scholar, 1970
Education:
JD, Yale Law School, 1975
BA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford University (Brasenose College), 1972
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