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Faculty Profile

Kirsten Smolensky

Academic Title: Associate Professor of Law
E-mail:  Kirsten Smolensky
Office Number: 266
Office Phone: (520) 626-6451
Office Fax: (520) 621-9140

Courses Taught:
Torts 1 Health Law

Education

University of Chicago Law School, J.D. (2002) Comments Editor, The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable
University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (Biology) (1999) 

Admitted to Practice

Illinois
U.S. District Courts, Illinois

Personal Work Experience

Associate Professor of Law, Rogers College of Law, 2006
MacLean Ethics Fellow, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, 2005 - 2006
Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School, 2004 - 2006
Associate/Law Clerk/Summer Associate, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP, Chicago Ill., 2001 - 2004

Representative Publications

Creating Children with Disabilities: Parental Tort Liability for Preimplantation Genetic Interventions, 60 Hastings L.J. __ (forthcoming 2008).
Defining Life from the Perspective of Death: An Introduction to the Forced Symmetry Approach, 2006 U. Chi. Legal F. 41 (2006).
Telemedicine Reimbursement: Raising the Iron Triangle to a New Plateau, 13 Health Matrix: J.L.-Med. 371 (2003).
Any DNA to Declare? Regulating Offshore Access to Genetic Enhancement, 28 Am. J.L. & Med. 169 (2002).
Complete List of Publications

Presentations

Speaker & Panelist, Medical Malpractice Seminar (Interprofessional Health Sciences Program, Univ. Ariz., Apr. 11, 2008). 
Panelist, The Business of Being Born (University Medical Center, Univ. Ariz., Jan. 19, 2008). 
Speaker, Parental Liability for Genetic Interventions (Health Law Teacher's Conf., Boston University Law School, June 1, 2007). 
Speaker, Parental Liability for Genetic Enhancement (Human Enhancement Technologies & Human Rights Conf., organized by the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies & co-sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics & the Stanford Center for Law & the Biosciences, Stanford Univ. Law School, May 27, 2006). 
Moderator, Definitions and Decision Making (Defining Life: Bioethics, Law & Life, Univ. Chicago Legal Forum Symposium, Oct. 28 - 29, 2005). 
Speaker, Rights of the Dead (Health Law Faculty Work in Progress Workshop, St. Louis Univ. School of Law, Sept. 22, 2005). 
Panelist, Finitude: Defining Death in the Public Sphere (Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Contemporary Reflections on the Body, Univ. Chicago Divinity School, Apr. 8, 2005). 
Complete List of Presentations

Organizations

American Bar Association
American Health Lawyers Association
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Illinois State Bar Association

Institutional Service

Member, UMC's Hospital Ethics Committee 2007 - present
Law School Liaison, Association for Women Faculty 2007 - present
Member, Interprofessional Team on Health Care Education 2006 - present

Biography

Prof. Smolensky has an Author Page on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), at http://ssrn.com/author=661104.

 

Updated: 09/29/2011