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Michael H. Shapiro specializes in bioethics and constitutional law, particularly the medical and legal ethical issues surrounding research experimentation, reproductive and genetic technologies, and behavior control related to death and dying. He has taught courses in Constitutional Law and Bioethics Law at USC Gould School of Law, Yale Law School, and UCLA Law School. A prolific author, he has written on medical ethics and legal questions arising from new technologies, contributing to texts such as 'Cases, Materials, Problems in Bioethics Law' (2003) and essays addressing technological enhancement and moral identity. Shapiro earned his BA and MA from UCLA and his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Law Review. His legal career includes practice at Swerdlow, Glikbarg & Shimer and roles in California Rural Legal Assistance and the Western Center on Law and Poverty. He has participated in the Institutional Review Board at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center and reviewed proposals for the Human Genome Project.
University of Southern California Gould School of Law • Los Angeles, California
Michael H. Shapiro has served as a faculty member at the USC Gould School of Law since 1970.
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