B.A., Yale University 1986 ( summa cum laude) J.D., Harvard Law School 1990 ( magna cum laude) Ph.D., History, Yale University 2005
Bio
Lewis Grossman is the Ann Loeb Bronfman Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law, where he has taught since 1997 and where he served as Associate Dean for Scholarship from 2008 to 2011 and 2022. He teaches and writes in the areas of food and drug law, health law, American legal history, and civil procedure. He was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School during the winter term in January 2025. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellow at Princeton University, and a Visiting Research Scholar at Texas A&M University’s Institute for Healthcare Access.
Prior to joining the American University faculty, Professor Grossman was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. Before that, he clerked for Chief Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Professor Grossman is the author of Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America (Oxford University Press 2021). His scholarship has appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Law and History Review, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, and Administrative Law Review, among others. He has also published in medical and scientific journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine and Science, and has contributed chapters to volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Columbia University Press. In addition, Professor Grossman is the co-author of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials, the leading text in the field, and of a widely used supplement to the first-year civil procedure course titled A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action. He has served as a member or legal consultant on five committees of the Health and Medicine Division (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He recently represented a national group of food and drug law scholars that submitted amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts defending FDA’s approval and regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone.
Professor Grossman earned his Ph.D. in History from Yale University, where he was awarded the George Washington Egleston Prize for Best Dissertation in the Field of American History. He received a J.D magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University.
