About the Author

• Author: Browne C. Lewis
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About the Author

Professor Lewis graduated number one in her class with a degree in Political Science from

Grambling State University. Prior to attending law school, Professor Lewis received summer

fellowships to study at Carnegie-Mellon University, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute at the

University of Minnesota and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard

University.

Professor Lewis started her professional career as a statistician and ADR trainer at the

Conflict and Change Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, she clerked for the

Honorable Daniel Wozniak, Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Professor

Lewis practiced in the areas of environmental, elder, family, housing and probate law.

Professor Lewis spent most of her career working as a legal services attorney.

Professor Lewis is the Leon & Gloria Plevin Professor of Law and the Director of the

Center of Health Law & Policy at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Prior to joining the

faculty at Cleveland-Marshall, Professor Lewis was an associate professor at the University

of Detroit Mercy School of Law, a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School

of Law, a summer visiting professor at Seattle University School of Law and a legal writing

instructor at Hamline University School of Law. Professor Lewis has also taught in the

American Bar Association CLEO Summer Institute.

Lewis is a member of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Health Care

Compliance Association, the Public Health Law Association and the American Health

Lawyers' Association. Professor Lewis is also a public member of the Board of the Joint

Commission and a member of Cleveland State University's Institutional Review Board

(IRB).

Professor Lewis writes in the areas of environmental, family and reproductive law. Her next

most recent article on surrogacy and maternity is forthcoming in the St. John’s Law Review.

Professor Lewis has recently completed a book on paternity and artificial insemination for

New York University Press. In 2010, Professor Lewis' casebook on the inheritance rights of

children was published by Carolina Academic Press.