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Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Professor Rosenblatt teaches courses in Health Law, Advanced Health Law, Constitutional Law, and Law, Justice, & Society. He is the lead co-author of the widely-used health law casebook Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press) and its Supplements. Professor Rosenblatt has testified several times in Congress about patients' rights and managed care, and his co-authored analyses of pending legislation have been quoted on the House floor by congressmen from both parties and by President Clinton. He has frequently spoken on and taught about health law, including to federal judges through the Federal Judicial Center and at the Health Law Teachers Conferences sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard, an M.S. with distinction from the London School of Economics, and a J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he was Article and Book Review Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and served as a Staff Attorney for the Health Law Project of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Rutgers-Camden Law School from 1997-2000.
Publications
Books:2001-2002 Supplement to Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press, 1999) (with Sara Rosenbaum & David Frankford)1999-2000 Supplement to Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press, 1999) (with Sylvia Law & Sara Rosenbaum)1998 Supplement to Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press, 1998) (with Sylvia Law & Sara Rosenbaum)Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press, 1997) (with Sylvia Law & Sara Rosenbaum)Teachers Manual to Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press, 1997) (with Sylvia Law & Sara Rosenbaum)American Health Law: Cases and Materials (Little, Brown & Co., 1990) (with George Annas, Sylvia Law, & Kenneth Wing)Essays in Books:Health Law, in The Politics of Law 147-171, 3rd edition (D. Kairys, ed., HarperCollins/Basic Books, 1998)The Courts and the Reconstruction of American Social Legislation, in The Politics of Health Care Reform: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future 165-202 (James Morone & Gary Belkin, eds., Duke University Press, 1994)Social Duties and the Problem of Rights in the American Welfare State, in The Politics of Law, 90-114, Revised edition (D. Kairys, ed., Pantheon Books, 1990)Legal Entitlement and Welfare Benefits, in The Politics of Law 262-278 (D. Kairys, ed., Pantheon Books, 1982)Articles:Equality, Entitlement, and National Health Care Reform: The Challenge of Managed Competition and Managed Care, 60 Brooklyn Law Review 105-142 (1994)(Symposium on Ensuring (E)qual(ity) Health Care for Poor Americans)The Courts, Health Care Reform, and the Reconstruction of American Social Legislation, 18 Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 439-476 (1993) (Symposium on National Health Care Reform)Statutory Interpretation and Distributive Justice: Medicaid Hospital Reimbursement and the Debate Over Public Choice, 35 St. Louis Univ. Law J. 793-835 (1991) (Health Law Symposium)Conceptualizing Health Law for Teaching Purposes: The Social Justice Perspective, 38 J. Legal Education 489 (1988) (Symposium on Health Law)Medicaid Primary Care Case Management, The Doctor-Patient Relationship, and the Politics of Privatization, 36 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 915-968 (1986) (Symposium on Health Care Cost Containment)Rationing `Normal' Health Care Through Market Mechanisms: A Response to Professor Blumstein, 60 Texas L. Rev. 919-932 (1982)Rationing `Normal' Health Care: The Hidden Legal Issues, 59 Texas L. Rev. 1401-1420 (1981)Health Care, Markets, and Democratic Values, 34 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1067-1115 (1981) (Symposium on Health Care and Market Competition)Health Care Reform and Administrative Law: A Structural Approach, 88 Yale L.J. 243-336 (1978)Book Comment, Dual Track Health Care -- The Decline of the Medicaid Cure, 44 U. Cincinnati L. Rev. 643-661 (1975)Lurching Toward the Abyss: Medicaid Cutbacks and Health Care Inflation, Health Law Project Library Bulletin, Nov. 1975 & Jan. 1976 (2 parts)Note, Legal Theory and Legal Education, 79 Yale L.J. 1153-1178 (1970)Articles in Newspapers:Prescribing for Health Care, (book review essay), New York Newsday, July 17, 1994Viewpoint: Warped Vision Killed the Health Plan, New York Newsday, September 13, 1994Legislative Analysis:Letter of analysis, requested by the offices of Senator Jon Corzine and Congressman Rush Holt, dated August 29, 2001, addressed to the United States Senators and Members of Congress from New Jersey, regarding the probable impact of the version of the federal patients bill of rights passed by the United States House of Representatives in August 2001 on New Jersey's recently enacted Health Care Carrier Accountability Act, P.L. 2001, ch.187. Letter of analysis dated August 2, 2001, requested by the office of Congressman John Dingell, co-authored with professors Sara Rosenbaum and David Frankford, addressed to Representative John Dingell, Ranking Member of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, regarding the 'Norwood Amendment' (the latest White House patients rights proposal) to the patients bill of rights bill in the House, HR 2563. Letter of analysis dated June 14, 2001, requested by the office of Senator Edward Kennedy, addressed to Senator Edward Kennedy, Chair, United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, regarding provisions on access to non-network specialist physicians in S.889 (Frist/Breaux/Jeffords).Testimony before the Health Committee of the New Jersey Senate on the 'Health Care Insurer Accountability Act,' Senate Committee Substitute for S.1333 and S.722, delivered orally September 25, 2000, submitted in writing October 13, 2000. Letter of analysis dated July 6, 2000, requested by the office of Congressman John Dingell, co-authored with professors Sara Rosenbaum and David Frankford, addressed to Congressman John Dingell, Ranking Member of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, regarding the legislation on patients' rights passed by the United States Senate in June 2000.Letter of analysis dated October 6, 1999, reprinted in the Congressional Record, October 7, 1999, pp.H9594-9595, addressed to Congressman John Dingell, Ranking Member of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, analyzing Congressman Coburn?s Substitute Amendment to H.R. 2723, The Health Care Quality and Choice Act of 1999 (co-authored with George Washington Univ. Prof. Sara Rosenbaum);Testimony on ERISA and Health Care Delivery, United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, Washington, DC, February 24, 1999;Testimony on Consumer Rights in Health Insurance Coverage Determinations, United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Washington, DC, January 20, 1999Amicus Briefs:C.K. v. Shalala, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and U.S. District Court, Newark, NJ, on behalf of 'Members and Staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research and the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research,' on human experimentation issues in New Jersey's welfare reform demonstration program (September 1995 and September 1994)Court-Appointed Expert Report:Children's Health and the Agent Orange Settlement Fund, A Report to Chief Judge Jack B. Weinstein, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 381 (Feb. 22,1985)