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Long Bio
Betsy Grey is the Jack E. Brown Chair in Law in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, a fellow with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics (2017-2018) and faculty fellow with the Center for Law, Science and Innovation at Arizona State University.
Professor Grey publishes and teaches on issues of tort law, products liability and mass tort litigation, as well as neuroscience and law, and has presented to judicial conferences and other professional groups on these issues. Her recent scholarly work has focused on the study of no-fault compensation systems in the United States, as well as the impact of advancements in neuroscience on tort law. Professor Grey also has taught products liability as part of a common law program to law students in France.
Before joining ASU, Professor Grey was a commercial litigator at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner, and a trial attorney for the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice through the Honors Program, where she represented federal agencies and officials in litigation involving constitutional, statutory and regulatory issues. A former articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, Professor Grey clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Grey is a member of the American Law Institute and Professional Editorial Board for Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology.
Neuroscience, PTSD and Sentencing Mitigation, 34 Cardozo L. Rev. 53 (2012). K3 .A72
The Plague of Causation in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, 48 Harv. J. on Legis. 343 (2011). K8 .A726
Homeland Security and Federal Relief: A Proposal for a Permanent Compensation System for Domestic Terrorist Victims, 9 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 663 (2006). K14 E4822
Neuroscience and Emotional Harm in Tort Law: Rethinking the American Approach to Free-Standing Emotional Distress Claims, in Current Legal Issues, Volume 13 (Oxford University Press, 2011). KF 346 .L39