George P. Smith II

George P. Smith II, Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America Law School, US

,George P. Smith is one of the world's leading experts on the legal and ethical issues raised by modern medicine.His book is a wide-ranging and deeply informed and considered analysis of those issues, with particular emphasis on the inequality with which the benefits of modern medicine are bestowed on the sick.Knowledgeable as well about the technical aspects of the biomedical revolution, Smith writes with insight and authority, and offers a perspective that will influence the policy debates.'
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George P. Smith asks this fundamental question while also confronting the distribution of these scarce medical resources.

George P. Smith II, Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America Law School, US
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,George P. Smith is one of the world's leading experts on the legal and ethical issues raised by modern medicine.His book is a wide-ranging and deeply informed and considered analysis of those issues, with particular emphasis on the inequality with which the benefits of modern medicine are bestowed on the sick.Knowledgeable as well about the technical aspects of the biomedical revolution, Smith writes with insight and authority, and offers a perspective that will influence the policy debates.'

George P. Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Indiana University, School of Law - Bloomington, January-February 2004.Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law, United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 2000-2001.

George P. Smith, professor of law at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. also argues against gay marriage by contending that, "the desire to marry in the lesbian and gay community is an attempt to mimic the worst of mainstream society, an effort to fit into an inherently problematic institution that betrays the promise of both lesbian and gay liberation and radical feminism" (Smith 30).This logic seems to ignore the fact that our conceptions of institutions can change, and they have proven that ability.Moreover, refusing to participate in an institution that holds a heterosexual norm, may continue to emphasize a difference between homosexuals and heterosexuals and difference often translates into ideas of inequality.Homosexuals' inability to marry has also contributed, "to the discrimination they experience because of the belief that they are promiscuous sexual deviants" (Smith 30).
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This fact is supported by, "numerous studies-including Anne Perkins's study of "gay" sheep and George and Molly Hunt's study of "lesbian" seagulls", and these studies show that, "some animals do form pair-bonds" (Corvino 5).
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Smith, George P. Family Values and the New Society: Dilemmas of the 21st Century.Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers: 1998.

Waldman, Steven."A Common Missed Conception".Nov 19 2003.Nov 7 2004. .

George P. Smith II, The Catholic University of America

- George P. Smith II is professor of law at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.He wrote Human Rights and Biomedicine (Kluwer International, 2000).Contact 202-319-5140, smithg@cua.edu.- The Rev. John Langan is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.He wrote the entry "Stem Cell Research and Religious Freedom" for Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).Contact 202-687-6746, langanj@georgetown.edu.

Professor George SmithFaculty of Law, Catholic University of America1 August - 17 August 2008, Room 1135, ext 10393Professor George P. Smith joined the Catholic University of America Law Faculty in August 1977 as a law professor.He has had previous law teaching affiliations at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Georgetown, George Washington and Notre Dame.His core teaching areas are property law, land use and environmental law.His areas of specialization are law, science and medicine - specifically bioethics and health law.He is the Founding Faculty Editor of The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy at the Catholic University of America Law School.He has held over 60 research appointments with institutions including: the medical schools at the universities of Chicago, Columbia, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, as well as the universities of Arizona State; Auckland; New Zealand; British Columbia; Cambridge; McGill; Oxford; Sydney, Australia; The Hoover Institution, The Max Planck Institute, Germany; The Rockefeller Foundation; Bellagio, Italy, Trinity College at Dublin University; Dartmouth College; The Free University of Berlin; Princeton Seminary and the divinity schools at Cambridge, Yale and Vanderbilt.In 1984, Professor Smith received an Australian-American Fulbright award to teach at the University of New South Wales as The Fulbright Visiting Professor Law and Medical Jurisprudence.He has also held teaching appointments as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2005, and as the Parsons Visiting Professor of Law at The University of Sydney in 2003 and in 1998, and as Visiting Professor of Law at The University of New South Wales in 2001, 1990 and 1987.Widely published and recognized as a leading national and international scholar, he has a bibliography of over 180 entries which includes 13 books, 18 monographs and 140 law review articles and essays.His contributions to the legal profession were recognized by Indiana University in 1998 when he was awarded an LL.D. degree, Honoris Causa.He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century as well as WHO's WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION and WHO's WHO in AMERICAN LAW.He is a life member of the American Law Institute.