Lewis A. Grossman

Lewis A. Grossman is a professor of law, historian, and legal scholar at American University Washington College of Law, specializing in food and drug law, health law, and American legal history. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Cornell Law School. In addition, he was a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellow at Princeton University.

Early life and education Lewis Grossman was born to Madeleine and Edward Grossman of Westport, Connecticut. His mother was a lawyer and his father was a gastroenterologist and an associate professor of medicine at Yale University.

Career Grossman was a law clerk for Chief Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Following his position as a law clerk, Grossman became an associate at Covington & Burling.

Grossman began teaching at Washington College of Law in 1997. From 2008 to 2011, Grossman served as Associate Dean for Scholarship at the school. He teaches food and drug law as well as civil procedure.

From 2017-2018, Grossman was a Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellow at Princeton University. During his fellowship, he worked on writing a book which he described as "discussing legal efforts and social movements throughout American history to ensure that people can take any kind of medicine they want and visit any kind of doctor they want." In October 2021, Oxford University Press published Grossman's book, titled Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America.

Publications Books Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America (Oxford University Press 2021)

Textbooks Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials (with Peter Barton Hutt and Richard A. Merrill). Food and Drug Law, Statutory Supplement (with Peter Barton Hutt & Richard A. Merrill) A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action (with Robert G. Vaughn). Teacher’s Manual for A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action (with Robert Vaughn) (Foundation Press 2000, rev. ed. 2002).

Articles Langdell Upside-Down: James Coolidge Carter and the Anticlassical Jurisprudence of Anticodification, 19 Yale J.L. & Human. 149 (2007). The Origins of American Health Libertarianism, 13 Yale J. Health Pol'y L. & Ethics (2013).

Personal life Grossman married Lisa Rabin, a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature in 1994. Their wedding was officiated by politician and Judge Abner Mikva.