Georgia State University
School of Law
Room 450 Urban Life
PO Box 4037
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30302
plombardo@gsu.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Paul Lombardo earned both his Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from the University of Virginia where (1990- 2006) he was a faculty member of the Schools of Law and Medicine and directed the Center for Mental Health Law at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, then the Program in Law and Medicine in the Center for Biomedical Ethics. Before returning to Virginia he practiced law in California (1985-1990). He currently serves as Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, in Atlanta. He has been a consultant to Study Sections or Special Emphasis Panels at eight different Institutes of the National Institutes of Health. He was a contributor and consultant for the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum Exhibit “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.” In 2002, he sponsored an historical marker to memorialize the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 decision endorsing eugenical sterilization laws in Buck v. Bell. His advocacy for state governmental repudiation of past eugenic policies succeeded first in Virginia and has extended to six other states. His publications span the fields of health law, medico-legal history, and bioethics and include the books: “A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era” (ed., 2011), “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell” (2008), and “Fletcher’s Clinical Ethics” (ed., 2005).