Roy G. Spece, Jr.

Professor Roy G. Spece, Jr. graduated first in his class at the University of Southern California Gould School Of Law and then practiced with the national firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher before joining the University of Arizona faculty. He teaches constitutional law, health law, bioethics & law, and medical litigation. He has published numerous books, book chapters, and articles focusing on the intersections among law, medicine, science, and ethics, particularly focusing on constitutional issues and rights of vulnerable populations in those settings. His publications include Bioethics and Law:  Cases, Materials, and Problems (M. Shapiro, R. Spece, et al. eds., 2d ed., Thomson/West Publishing Company 2003); and Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research and Practice (R. Spece, D. Shimm, and A. Buchanan eds., Oxford University Press 1996). His writings helped establish two fields of interdisciplinary study:  bioethics and law and conflicts of interest. He is a member of the Arizona and California Bars and is a Fellow of the American Association for Justice (formerly American Trial Lawyers Association). He is a former President of the University of Arizona Faculty Association and Chairman of the Law & Medicine Section of the American Association of Law Schools. 

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• (Implicit) Consent to Intimacy, 50 Ind. L. Rev. 907 (2017) (co-author, with John K. Hilton & Jeffrey N. Younggren).
• An Empirical Method for Materiality: Would Conflict of Interest Disclosures Change Patient Decisions?, 40 Am. J.L. & Med. 253 (2014) (co-author with David Yokum, Andrea-Gale Okoro, & Christopher Robertson).
• Constitutional Attacks Against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's "Mandating" that Certain Individuals and Employers Purchase Insurance While Restricting Purchase by Undocumented Immigrants and Women Seeking Abortion, 38 N. Ky. L. Rev. 489 (2011).
• Medical Tourism: Protecting Patients from Conflicts of Interest in Broker's Fees Paid by Foreign Providers, 6 J. Health & Biomedical L. 1 (2010).
• Cases, Materials, and Problems on Bioethics and Law (2d ed. 2003) (co-editor, with Michael H. Shapiro, Rebecca. Dresser, & Ellen Wright Clayton).
• Fourth Amendment Restrictions on Scientific Misconduct Proceedings at Public Universities, 11 Health Matrix: J.L. & Med. 571 (2001) (co-author, with John J. Marchalonis), reprinted in 29 Search & Seizure L. Rep. 49 (Aug. 2002).
• Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research and Practice (1996) (co-editor, with David S. Shimm & Allen E. Buchanan).
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