Lewis Grossman is the Ann Loeb Bronfman Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of food and drug law, health law, American legal history, and civil procedure. He was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School during the winter term in January 2025. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellow at Princeton University, and a Visiting Research Scholar at Texas A&M University’s Institute for Healthcare Access.
Prior to joining the American University faculty, Professor Grossman was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C., where he now serves as an Of Counsel. Before that, he clerked for Chief Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Professor Grossman is the author of Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America (Oxford University Press 2021). His scholarship has appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Law and History Review, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, and Administrative Law Review, among others. He has also published in medical and scientific journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Science, and has contributed chapters to volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Columbia University Press. In addition, Professor Grossman is the co-author of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials, the leading text in the field. He has served as a member or legal consultant on five committees of the Health and Medicine Division (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Professor Grossman earned his PhD in History from Yale University, where he was awarded the George Washington Egleston Prize for Best Dissertation in the Field of American History. He received a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a BA summa cum laude from Yale University.