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Faculty ProfileChristopher RobertsonAssociate Professor of LawE-mail: Christopher Robertson Office Number: 243 Office Phone: (520) 621-1289 Office Fax: Courses Taught: Torts 
Health Law
Curriculum Vitae SSRN Published Papers |
Biographical Information |
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| Professor Robertson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he also served as a fellow and lecturer. He earned a doctorate in Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also taught bioethics. Robertson's legal practice has focused on complex litigation, medical and scientific disputes, and insurance cases, including trials and argument in the federal circuit courts. Robertson's research falls into three related areas. First, he explores the problems that arise when laypersons (whether jurors, consumers, or patients) must rely upon expert advice in contexts of potential bias, and he develops institutional solutions that may help laypersons make better decisions. Second, he develops empirical data on the impact of unpredictable medical events on home foreclosures and other consumer finances, and explores how the law can be reformed to better protect consumers. Third, he contributes to debates in biomedical ethics, bringing insights from empiricism, law, and political philosophy. |
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Representative Publications |
| A Randomized Study of How Physicians Interpret Research Funding Disclosures, 369 New Eng. J. Med. 1119 (2012) (co-author, with Aaron S. Kesselheim et al.). |
| The Split Benefit: The Painless Way to Put Skin Back in the Health Care Game, 98 Cornell L. Rev. 921 (2013). |
| Biased Advice, 60 Emory L.J. 653 (2011). |
| Blind Expertise, 85 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 174 (2010). |
| Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Foreclosures, 18 Health Matrix 65 (2008). |
| From Freeriders to Fairness: Towards a Cooperative System for Organ Transplantation, 48 Jurimetrics 1 (2007). |
| Complete List of Publications |
Updated: 04/23/2013