Lewis Grossman
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Scholarship
Office: Room 328
Phone: 202-274-4363
E-mail: lewisg@wcl.american.edu
Lewis Grossman joined the faculty of WCL in 1997. He became professor of law in 2003. He teaches and specializes in American legal history, civil procedure and food and drug law. Prior to joining the faculty of WCL, he was an associate at the D.C. firm of Covington & Burling, and prior to that, he was clerk for Chief Judge Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- American Legal History
- Civil Procedure
- Food and Drug Law
Degrees & Universities
- Ph.D., History, Yale University 2005
- J.D., Harvard Law School 1990 (magna cum laude)
- B.A., Yale University 1986 (summa cum laude)
Selected Publications
- Lewis A. Grossman, Food, Drugs, and Droods: A Historical Consideration of Definitions and Categories in American Food and Drug Law, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 1091 (2008). SSRN Link
- Lewis A. Grossman, Peter B. Hutt & Richard A. Merrill, Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials (3d ed., Foundation Press 2007). SSRN Link
- Lewis A. Grossman, Langdell Upside-Down: James Coolidge Carter and the Anticlassical Jurisprudence of Anticodification, 19 Yale J.L. & Humanities 149 (2007). SSRN Link
- Lewis A. Grossman & Robert Vaughn, A Documentary Companion to 'A Civil Action' (3d ed., Foundation Press 2006).
- Lewis A. Grossman, The Story of Parklane Hosiery, in Civil Procedure Stories (Kevin M. Clermont, ed., Foundation Press 2004).
- Lewis A. Grossman, James Coolidge Carter and Mugwump Jurisprudence, 20 L. & Hist. Rev. 577 (2002). SSRN Link
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Books
- Lewis A. Grossman & Robert Vaughn, Teacher's Manual for A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action (2d ed., Foundation Press 2002).
Other Publications
- Lewis Grossman, “The Benefits and Evils of Competition”: James Coolidge Carter’s Supreme Court Advocacy, in Festschrift in Honor of Morton Horwitz (Alfred Brophy & Daniel Hamilton, eds., Harvard U. Press) (forthcoming 2008). SSRN Link
- Lewis Grossman, James Coolidge Carter, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Roger K. Newman, ed., Yale U. Press) (forthcoming 2008).
- Lewis Grossman, John Norton Pomeroy, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Roger K. Newman, ed., Yale U. Press) (forthcoming 2008).
- Lewis Grossman, Codes and Codification: United States Law, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History (Stanley N. Katz, ed., Oxford U. Press (forthcoming 2008). SSRN Link
- Lewis A. Grossman, The Ideal and the Actual of James Coolidge Carter: Morality and Law in the Gilded Age, (winner, George Washington Egleston Prize for Best Dissertation in the Field of American History (Yale Ph.D. dissertation 2005)).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Review of Mark Warren Bailey, Guardians of the Moral Order: The Legal Philosophy of the Supreme Court, 1860-1910, 92 J. Am. Hist. 241 (2005).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Extending the Revisionist Project, 20 L. & Hist. Rev. 639 (2002).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Codification and the California Mentality, 45 Hastings L.J. 617 (1994). SSRN Link
- Lewis A. Grossman, John C. Fremont, Mariposa, and the Collision of Mexican and American Law, 6 W. Leg. Hist. 17 (1993) (reprinted in 31 Pub. Land & Res. L. Dig. 111 (1994)). SSRN Link
- Lewis A. Grossman, Self-Censorship by Media Industries, 15 Colum. J.L. & Arts 443 (1991).
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Selected Presentations
- Lewis Grossman, Presentation, Mugwump Lawyering: James Coolidge Carter as Attorney (George Washington University Law School Scholarship Roundtable: Legal History, Wash., D.C., Sept. 29, 2006).
- Lewis Grossman, Participant, Hayek: The Common Law and Liberty (Liberty Fund Colloquium, Arlington, Va., July 13 - 16, 2006).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Panel, The Moral Common Law of the Gilded Age Anticodifiers on panel titled The Moral Judiciary in the Gilded Age (American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Austin, Tex., Oct. 10, 2004).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Speech, UnLangdellian Orthodoxy: The Common Law Jurisprudence of the Late Nineteenth Century Anticodification Movement (Southeastern Assocaition of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Fla., July 25, 2004).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Presentation, Legal Issues in Long-Term Follow-Up of Gene Therapy Trials (American Society of Gene Therapy Workshop on Long Term Follow-Up of Gene Therapy Clinical Trials, June 2004).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Panel, Civil Procedure: The Historical Perspective, Putting Procedure in Perspective (Association of American Law Schools, N.Y.C., N.Y., June 18, 2003).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Panel, James Coolidge Carter and Mugwump Jurisprudence, Intellectual Biography and Intellectual History: The Example of Gilded Age Legal Thought (American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Princeton, N.J., Oct. 20, 2000).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Speech, Regulation of Genetically Modifed Foods, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Comes to Stanford (Stanford Law School, Stanford, Cal., Mar. 23, 2000).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Speech, Categorical Definitions of FDA-Regulated Products, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Comes to Stanford (Stanford Law School, Stanford, Cal., Mar. 23, 2000).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Speech, Teaching from A Civil Action (Annual Conference of the American Association for Paralegal Education, Bos., Mass., Oct. 14, 1999).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Speech, Untold Procedural Stories from (Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 30, 1999).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Testimony, Testimony before Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee regarding FDA regulation of tobacco products (Wash., D.C., Feb. 24, 1998).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Speech, FDA Regulation of Tobacco (Mealy Tobacco Conference, Chi., Ill., Sept. 18, 1997).
- Lewis A. Grossman, Speech Presented by Peter Barton Hutt, A Brief and General History of Government Policy Concerning Patent Rights to Federally-Funded Pharmaceutical Inventions (Institute of Medicine's Roundtable for the Development of Drugs and Vaccines Against AIDS, National Academy of Sciences, Apr. 18, 1994).