Linda C. Fentiman
- Professor of Law Emerita
Education
BS, Cornell University
JD, State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law
LLM, Harvard Law School
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Emerita Professor Linda Fentiman specializes in health law and criminal law. In addition to Haub Law, she has taught at Columbia and Suffolk University Law Schools, the University of Houston Law Center, and the University of Warsaw in Poland, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.
Professor Fentiman has written extensively about bioethics, health care access, and mental disability, addressing the insanity defense, competency to stand trial, fetal protection, physician advocacy, organ transplantation, death and dying, telemedicine and Internet pharmacies. Her most recent work has focused on women and addiction. In 2010 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York. In her non-academic life, Prof. Fentiman has practiced health law, criminal law, and environmental law. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Bar Foundation and chaired the Committee on Health Law at the New York City Bar Association. She has served as a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on Toxicogenomics, and has been awarded the Simonsmeier Prize for the Best Published Paper on Pharmacy Law.
Professor Fentiman received a BS from Cornell University, a JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a LLM from Harvard Law School. She is admitted to the bar in California, New York, the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts.
Fellowships & Scholarships:
Fellow of the NY Academy of Medicine and the American Bar Foundation
Fulbright Scholar (Poland)
Honors & Awards:
Simonseier Prize for Best Published Paper on Pharmacy Law