Barry Furrow is a pioneer in the field of health law. He is the lead author of “Health Law — Cases, Materials and Problems” (now in its 8th edition), which remains the leading casebook in the field. He is an influential scholar, named #10 on the 20 Most-cited Health Law Faculty list published by Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center in 2018. His expertise spans health-related topics such as health care regulation and finance, patient safety, patient privacy, mental health, bioethics, and legal issues of death and dying. He has authored or co-authored more than nine health law books and has written dozens of law review articles on health law topics, in journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Drexel Law Review.
In 2018, he was selected by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to serve as a Fulbright Specialist. In that capacity, he continues to consult with faculty and students at academic institutions in Italy and elsewhere.
He earned his JD at Harvard Law School before clerking with the Superior Court of Massachusetts and handling civil litigation and health-law cases with the Boston firm, Palmer & Dodge.
Professor Furrow is an editorial board member and former editor-in-chief of Law, Medicine & Health Care. He serves as a peer reviewer for the Milbank Fund Quarterly, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, the Journal of Legal Medicine, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics.