Christopher Robertson Joins BU Law
Robertson, an N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health & Disability Law, is an expert in health law, institutional design, and decision making.
Christopher Robertson Joins BU Law
Robertson, an N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health & Disability Law, is an expert in health law, institutional design, and decision making.
Noted health law scholar Christopher Robertson has joined the BU Law faculty as a tenured professor and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health & Disability Law. Robertson previously served as associate dean for research and innovation and professor of law at the University of Arizona.
An expert in health law, institutional design, and decision making, Professor Robertson’s work touches on wide-ranging areas such as torts, bioethics, professional responsibility, conflicts of interests, criminal justice, evidence, the First Amendment, racial disparities, and corruption.
He is the author of Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What Can be Done About It, and has coedited three books, Nudging Health: Behavioral Economics and Health Law, Blinding as a Solution to Bias: Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law, and Innovation and Protection: The Future of Medical Device Regulation (forthcoming).
Acting in legal reform movements, Robertson undertook a yearlong project in 2020 to help the board of trustees of the California State Bar reduce racial disparities in the attorney discipline system. He previously served as reporter for the Healthcare Law Committee of the Uniform Law Commission. For over a decade, he has served on the clinical ethics committee of an academic medical center.
In his efforts to reform legal education, Robertson is leading the development of JD-Next, a national program designed to reduce disparities in preparation for law school and to provide a reliable predictor of student success. In its second year, the program enrolled over 1,100 students nationwide. With the Educational Testing Service, Robertson conducted the first major study of the validity of the GRE as an admissions test for JD programs, which led to more than 60 schools—including Harvard, Yale, and BU—now relying on the exam. He has also pioneered legal education for undergraduates and non-lawyer professionals.
Robertson has served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, NYU Law, and the London School of Economics, and as a visiting scholar at the Brown University Policy Lab. He is affiliated with the Petrie Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard, the NYU Langone Health Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access, and the University of Arizona’s Innovation for Justice program. Robertson’s legal practice has focused on complex litigation involving medical and scientific disputes, and he continues to work with litigators through his firm, Hugo Analytics.
