Author

Russell Korobkin is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches Health Care Law, Negotiation, Contracts, and Law and Behavioral Science. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics and a Faculty Associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2001, he held appointments at the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs, and he taught as a visitor at the University of Texas School of Law. He has written more than 40 articles on health care law and policy, negotiation, contract law, and behavioral law and economics. Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Korobkin graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School, clerked for the Honorable James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as an associate at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, DC.

For the last two years, Professor Korobkin's research has focused on the variety of public policy issues raised by stem cell research and regenerative medicine. His book on the subject, Stem Cell Century: Law And Policy for a Breakthrough Technology, is written in a style accesible to lay readers as well as to experts in the field. His articles on the specific topics of federal funding of embryo research, policy and constitutional law issues associated with therapeutic cloning, the compensation of donors of tissues for stem cell research, and informed consent issues in tissue donation, have appeared in recent issues of the Jurimentrics Journal, the UCLA Law Review, the Arizona Law Review, the Journal of Health Law, and the Stanford Law & Policy Review.