Paul A. Lombardo is known for his historical scholarship on the legal legacy of eugenics in the United States. He wrote Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell (2008, 2022) and edited A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (2011). Prof. Lombardo received his AB from Rockhurst College, his MA from Loyola University of Chicago and both his PhD and JD from the University of Virginia. He practiced law in California (1985-1990) and was a faculty member at the University of Virginia Schools of Law and Medicine (1990-2006).
Prof. Lombardo coedited Introduction to Clinical Ethics (1995, 1997) and Fletcher’s Clinical Ethics (2005). From 2011 to 2016, he served as a Senior Advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and has been a consultant for eight different institutes of the National Institutes of Health. The American Society of Law, Medicine, & Ethics chose him as the Jay Healey Health Law Professor of the Year in 2021. The Sindh Institute of Medical Sciences in Karachi, Pakistan, where he taught regularly over two decades, named him as Distinguished Professor of Bioethics and Law in 2023.
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