Maxwell Mehlman

director, Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University

Maxwell J. Mehlman is Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 1975 and a BA from Reed College in 1970. In between college and law school, Professor Mehlman was a Rhodes Scholar, earning his second bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in 1972. After law school, he practiced with the Washington, DC firm of Arnold & Porter, where he specialized in federal regulation of medical technology. He joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1984. Since 1986, he has been the director of the Law-Medicine Center. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded Professor Mehlman a significant two-year grant to review, and then address, any public policy gaps in guidelines and ethical differences between therapeutic and enhancement genetic research that involves human subjects.