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Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope on end-of-life law and policy

Monday, March 31, 2025

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Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD: Mitchell Hamline Health Law Institute; Australian Center for Health Law Research at QUT; Albany Medical College, Minnesota, United States; Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, is Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. <> He is also an Adjunct Professor with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology; Adjunct Associate Professor with the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College; and Visiting Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at St. Georges University. <> Professor Pope is an internationally recognized expert in bioethics and medical ethics. He has over 250 publications in: leading medical journals, law reviews, bar journals, nursing journals, bioethics journals, and book chapters. He also coauthors the definitive 1500-page treatise The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking.