Timothy S. Hall

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Professor of Law

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Professor Hall graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1993, and joined the faculty of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 1999. Before joining the Louisville faculty, he practiced law with the corporate law department and health care law practice group of Taft, Stettinius and Hollister in Cincinnati, Ohio . Professor Hall has served as Associate Dean since 2006.

 

Professor Hall regularly teaches courses in Contracts, Insurance Law and Mental Health Law. His research interests and publications are primarily in the fields of drug and medical device liability and mental health law. He has presented scholarly work at regional, national and international conferences. Recent articles by Professor Hall have appeared in the Seton Hall Law Review and the South Carolina Law Review, among others. He has served as President of the Central States Law School Association and Chair of the AALS Section on Mental Disability and the Law.

Courses Taught


Contracts I and II
Insurance Law

Psychiatry, Mental Health and the Law

Publications

CASES, PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS ON MENTAL HEALTH LAW

(under contract with Carolina Academic Press, anticipated publication 2010)

The Future of Contract Policing after Buckeye Check Cashing (in process, draft on SSRN)

Regulating Direct to Consumer Advertising with Tort Law: Is the Law Finally Catching Up to the Marketplace?, ____ Western New Eng. L. Rev. _____ (forthcoming 2009)

Harry Potter and the Law, in Intersections of Law and Literature, 12 TEXAS WESLEYAN L. REV. 427-484 (2005) (co-authored)

Using Film as a Teaching Tool in a Mental Health Law Seminar, 5 HOUSTON J. HEALTH L. & POLICY 287 (2005)

Rethinking the Learned Intermediary Rule for the New Pharmaceutical Marketplace, 35 SETON HALL L. REV. 191-260 (2004)

Mental Retardation and Criminal Culpability after Atkins v Virginia, in The Honorable James J. Gilvary Symposium on Law, Religion & Social Justice: Evolving Standards of Decency in 2003 - Is the Death Penalty on Life Support?, 29 U. DAYTON L. REV. 355-378 (2004)

The Promise and Peril of Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Promotion on the Internet, 7 DEPAUL J. HEALTH CARE L. 1-41 (2003) (lead article vol. 7 no.1)

Bargaining with Hippocrates:  Managed Care and the Doctor-Patient Relationship, 56 SOUTH CAROLINA L. REV. 689-740 (2003)

Mickey Mantle, in COURTING THE YANKEES: LEGAL ESSAYS ON THE BRONX BOMBERS  41-51 (Carolina Academic Press 2003)

Legal Fictions and Moral Reasoning: the Mentally Retarded Capital Defendant after Penry v. Johnson, 35 AKRON L. REV. 327-370 (2002) (lead article vol. 35 no.3)

Pegram v. Herdrich, 14 HEALTH LAW NEWS 6,15 (September, 2000)

The Score as Contract: Private Law and the Historically Informed Performance Movement, in The Modes of Law: Music and Legal Theory, 20 CARDOZO L. REV. 1589-1614 (1999)

Third-Party Payor Conflicts of Interest in Managed Care: A Proposal for Regulation based on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 29 SETON HALL L. REV. 95-146 (1998) (lead article vol. 29 no.1)

Bypassing the Learned Intermediary: Potential Liability for Failure  to Warn in Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising, 2 CORNELL J. L. & PUBLIC POLICY 450-473 (1993)
 

Presentations

The Status of Part-Time Evening Programs, in The Evolution of J.D. Programs symposium, Southwestern Law School, Feb. 21, 2009

Legal Ethics Roundtable, Bellarmine University, Spring 2008

Current Issues in Health Care Reimbursement Policy, Department of Family Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Sept. 15, 2006

Freedom, Justice and Stigma, in TOO PURE AN AIR: LAW AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY, University of Gloucestershire, England, June 18-20, 2006

Legal Issues in Community Psychiatry Practice, University of Louisville Department of Psychiatry, Sept. 20, 2005

Depictions of Contractual Intent in Harry Potter, in THE POWER OF STORIES: INTERSECTIONS OF LAW, CULTURE AND LITERATURE, Gloucester, England, July 24-26, 2005

Ethics Roundtable: Inherit the Wind, Louisville Bar Association, Louisville, KY, April 22, 2005

University and Community Service

Member, Faculty of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and the Law

Member, University of Louisville Institutional Review Board Committee "B"

Chair, Personnel Committee of Highland Baptist Church 2006-08