Center Faculty
Paul Lombardo

Paul A. Lombardo
Ph.D., University of Virginia
J.D., University of Virginia
M.A., Loyola University, Chicago
A.B., Rockhurst College

Paul Lombardo is Professor of Law at Georgia State University’s College of Law. He has published approximately 250 articles, book chapters and reviews on topics in health law, medico-legal history, and bioethics. He is coeditor of Fletcher’s Clinical Ethics (3rd ed.), and his book, The One Sure Cure: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He chairs the Ethics Committee of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s Twin Registry Feasibility Study; serves on the Ethics Review Panel of Fudan University’s Shanghai Health Study and chairs the Biodiversity Policy Panel for the Baylor College of Medicine project: "Altering Nature: How Religious Traditions Assess the New Biotechnologies.”

Professor Lombardo teaches courses in genetics and the law, regulation of human research, law and psychiatry and the history of bioethics. From 1990 until 2006 he served on the faculty of the University of Virginia.

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Charity Scott

Charity Scott
J.D. Harvard University
A.B. Stanford University

Charity Scott is Professor of Law with a joint appointment in Georgia State University’s College of Law and J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Institute of Health Administration. She is also the Director of the Center for Law, Health & Society, and is a Faculty Fellow in Health Law with Emory University’s Center for Ethics.

Professor Scott is a member of the American Law Institute. In 2006 she received the Jay Healey Distinguished Health Law Teacher Award, presented by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. She is past Chair of the Health Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and is active in leadership positions with the ABA’s Health Law Section.

Professor Scott teaches courses on health care law and policy, bioethics, and tort law. She has published on a variety of health law issues, including antitrust and the health care field, medical ethics and the law, medical privacy, and health policy.

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Jonathan Todres

Jonathan Todres
J.D., Columbia Law School
B.A., Clark University

Jonathan Todres is Associate Professor of Law at Georgia State University’s College of Law. He has published numerous articles on a range of children’s rights issues and health law issues. Professor Todres is a Vice-Chair of the International Human Rights Committee of the ABA Section of International Law and the Immediate Past Chair of the Section’s International Health Law Committee. His research focuses on children’s rights issues, particularly those related to trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children, and health law issues. Professor Todres previously taught at New York University School of Law and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University and, prior to his legal career, worked for a number of years in international health.

Professor Todres teaches courses on public health law, human rights and children, and international and comparative health law.

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Leslie E. Wolf

Leslie E. Wolf
M.P.H., Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health
J.D., Harvard Law School
A.B., Stanford University

Leslie E. Wolf is Associate Professor of Law at Georgia State University’s College of Law. She conducts research in a variety of areas in health and public health law and ethics, with a particular focus on research ethics. She has conducted empirical research on conflicts of interest, research with stored biological materials, Certificates of Confidentiality, IRB web guidance, and HIV-related laws and policies. Prior to joining the law school, Professor Wolf taught medical ethics and research ethics at the University of California, San Francisco, where she also served on the UCSF institutional review board and advisory committee regarding stem cell research. She also previously was selected as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy and as a Greenwall Faculty Scholar.

Professor Wolf teaches courses on human subjects research, public health law, and HIV and the law.

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HeLP Legal Services Clinic Faculty

Lisa Bliss

Lisa Bliss
J.D., University of Florida
B.A., University of North Florida

Lisa Bliss is Assistant Clinical Professor at Georgia State University’s College of Law. She also serves as Associate Director of the in-house Health Law Partnership (HeLP) Legal Clinic. Professor Bliss's professional experience includes private practice as a litigator in Atlanta and public interest service as Deputy Director of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, which offers pro bono opportunities for private lawyers and law students. Professor Bliss’s teaching interests focus on teaching skills to law students through practical experience and application of legal concepts. She taught Research, Writing and Advocacy at the College of Law from 2001 until 2006. Previously, Professor Bliss was a member of the faculty of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she supervised law students in an in-house legal clinic.

Professor Bliss teaches courses on clinical skills and litigation skills.

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Sylvia Caley

Sylvia Caley
J.D., Georgia State University
M.B.A., Georgia State University
B.A., Oglethorpe University
R.N., Royal Victoria Hospital
School of Nursing

Sylvia Caley is Assistant Clinical Professor at Georgia State University’s College of Law. She also serves as Director of the Health Law Partnership (HeLP) and Associate Director of the in-house HeLP Legal Clinic. Professor Caley has extensive experience in health care, health law and policy, and poverty law, and her work-related interests have centered on the intersection of health and poverty. Of particular interest to her is the devastating effect that serious illness has on families, and how solving legal problems can help to improve the health and social well-being of low-income children. Professor Caley is a member of the Grady Health System Ethics Committee and the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Bioethics Committee.

Professor Caley teaches courses on health policy and legislation and clinical skills. She also lectures extensively on legal issues affecting child health and well-being.

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