Linda C. Fentiman

Emerita Professor Linda Fentiman specializes in health law and criminal law. In addition to Haub Law, she has taught at Columbia and Suffolk University Law Schools, the University of Houston Law Center, and the University of Warsaw in Poland, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.

Professor Fentiman has written extensively about bioethics, health care access, and mental disability, addressing the insanity defense, competency to stand trial, fetal protection, physician advocacy, organ transplantation, death and dying, telemedicine and Internet pharmacies. Her most recent work has focused on women and addiction. In 2010 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York. In her non-academic life, Prof. Fentiman has practiced health law, criminal law, and environmental law. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Bar Foundation and chaired the Committee on Health Law at the New York City Bar Association. She has served as a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on Toxicogenomics, and has been awarded the Simonsmeier Prize for the Best Published Paper on Pharmacy Law.

Professor Fentiman received a BS from Cornell University, a JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a LLM from Harvard Law School. She is admitted to the bar in California, New York, the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts.

• BS, Cornell University
• JD, State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law
• LLM, Harvard Law School

• Fellow of the NY Academy of Medicine and the American Bar Foundation
• Fulbright Scholar (Poland)

• Simonsmeier Prize for Best Published Paper on Pharmacy Law

• Sex, Science, and the Age of Anxiety, 92 Nebraska Law Review 455 (2014)
• Are Mothers Hazardous to Their Children’s Health: Law, Culture, and the Framing of Risk, 21 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 295 (2014)
• A New Form of WMD: Driving with Mobile Devices and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction, 81 University of Missouri at Kansas City Law Review 133 (2012).
• “Marketing Mothers’ Milk” in Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities (Rutgers University Press 2012)
• Rethinking Addiction: Drugs, Deterrence, and the Neuroscience Revolution, 14 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 233 (2011)
• Marketing Mothers’ Milk: The Commodification of Breastfeeding and the New Markets for Human Milk and Infant Formula, 10 Nevada Law Journal 29 (2010)
• In the Name of Fetal Protection: Why American Prosecutors Pursue Pregnant Drug Users (and Other Countries Don’t), 18 Columbia Journal Gender & Law 647 (2009)
• Pursuing the Perfect Mother: Why America's Criminalization of Maternal Substance Abuse Is Not the Answer, 15 Michigan Journal Gender & L. 389 (2009)
• Book Review: Legal Issues in Healthcare Fraud and Abuse: Navigating the Uncertainties, by David E. Matyas and Carrie Valiant, New York Law Journal, February 7, 2007
• The New ‘Fetal Protection’: The Wrong Answer to the Crisis of Inadequate Health Care for Women and Children, 84 Denver University Law Review 537 (2006)

Public health, bioethics, mental health, women and addiction