Scott Burris
Professor
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Professor Burris is a Professor of Law at Temple Law School, where he directs the Center for Public Health Law Research and a Professor in Temple’s School of Public Health. His research focuses on how law influences public health and health behavior and has written on issue s including urban health; discrimination against people with HIV and other disabilities; HIV policy; research ethics; and the health effects of criminal law and drug policy. He edited the first systematic legal analysis of HIV in the United States, AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public (Yale University Press, 1987; New Guide for the Public published 1993), and spent several years lobbying and litigating on behalf of people with HIV as an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. Professor Burris is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (A.B.) and Yale Law School (J.D.).
