Professor Lewis Grossman Appointed to National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Medical Product Supply Chain Security
Oct. 30, 2020
American University Washington College of Law Professor Lewis Grossman has been selected by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as a member of its Committee on the Security of America's Medical Product Supply Chain.
Grossman, one of 13 members appointed and the only legal scholar on the Committee, teaches and writes in the areas of food and drug law, health law, American legal history, and civil procedure. He has served as a member or legal consultant on three previous National Academies committees.
Congress mandated the establishment of the Committee on the Security of America’s Medical Product Supply Chain earlier this year in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Committee will assess and evaluate the dependence of the U.S., including the private commercial sector, states, and the federal government, on critical drugs and devices that are sourced or manufactured outside of the U.S. The group will also provide recommendations to improve the resiliency of the supply chain for critical drugs and devices, and to address any supply vulnerabilities or potential disruptions of such products that would significantly affect or pose a threat to public health security or national security.
“I'm honored to be appointed by the National Academies as a member of this important committee,” Grossman said. “I look forward to performing this critical work with an amazing multidisciplinary group of colleagues.”
Grossman has taught at AUWCL since 1997 and served as Associate Dean for Scholarship from 2008 to 2011. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellow at Princeton University. Prior to joining the American University faculty, he was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. and clerked for Chief Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Grossman’s scholarship has appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Law and History Review, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, and Administrative Law Review, among others. He has made recent contributions to volumes published by Oxford University Press and Columbia University Press. He is the co-author of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials (with Peter Barton Hutt and Richard A. Merrill) and of a widely used supplement to the first-year civil procedure course titled A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action (with Robert G. Vaughn). In 2021, Oxford University Press will publish Grossman’s book, Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America.