Lawrence O. Gostin

Lawrence O. Gostin, "an internationally acclaimed scholar, is Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dean Gostin is also Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center for Law & the Public’s Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities—a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dean Gostin is Visiting Professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and Research Fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health. He is the Health Law and Ethics Editor and Contributing Writer for the Journal of the American Medical Association...

"In the United Kingdom, Lawrence Gostin was the Legal Director of the National Association for Mental Health, Director of the National Council of Civil Liberties (the UK equivalent of the ACLU), and a Fellow at Oxford University. He helped draft the current Mental Health Act (England and Wales) and brought several landmark cases before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights." 


 * Advisory Board, Mental Disability Rights International
 * Advisory Committee (2003), Physicians for Human Rights
 * Editorial Board, Milbank Quarterly (Milbank Memorial Fund)