08.11.22 Hall Center Virtual Grand Rounds Summer Series with Professor Matthew B. Lawrence, Emory University School of Law

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Professor Lawrence discusses whether governmental action that causes or contributes to addiction deprives a person of “liberty” for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. The presentation will offer an opportunity to explore the current state of due process doctrine after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs.

Speaker Biography:

Matthew Lawrence is an Associate Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. His areas of expertise include health care finance, administrative law and addictions. He has published (or forthcoming) articles in top journals including the Boston College Law Review, Columbia Law Review; Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law and Policy Review; New York University Law Review; and Yale Law Journal.

Lawrence is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Brown University; and he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

Additionally, Lawrence has a wealth of experience in the federal government, most recently serving as a special legal advisor to the US House of Representatives Budget Committee (Majority). Previously, he worked on health care regulatory issues during the Obama and Trump Administrations as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Federal Programs Branch and attorney advisor in the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of General Counsel in the Executive Office of the President. In 2016, he received an individual special commendation award for his defense of Affordable Care Act programs while serving as trial attorney in the US Department of Justice.

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