Thomas Wm. Mayo
Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law
Full-time faculty
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Thomas Wm. Mayo was an associate with the Rochester, New York firm of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle (now ) after which he served as a law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then practiced with the Washington, D.C., firm of in the areas of antitrust, securities fraud, election law, and communications. In addition to his position at SMU, Professor Mayo is an Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the and is a co-principal investigator and past Director of SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility (2005-10). He is a co-founder of the , the state's first pro bono legal clinic for persons with HIV/AIDS and terminal illnesses. He was a member of the Council of the Health Law Section of the State Bar of Texas for 23 years and is a founding Fellow and past board member of the , a Fellow in the , and a recipient of the Dallas Medical Society’s Heath Award for his contributions to medicine and leadership in Dallas County. He was elected to membership in the in 2012 and was the poetry columnist for the Dallas Morning News from 1998-2008.
Professor Mayo has previously taught Administrative Law, Business Torts, Civil Procedure, Comparative & International Health Law, Constitutional Law I & II, Election Law, Family Law, Federal Courts, First Amendment Seminar (team-taught), Land Use, Legislation, and Nonprofit Organizations. He currently teaches Law & Medicine: Bioethics; Law & Medicine: Health Care; Law, Literature & Medicine; Legislation & Regulation, Public Health Law & Ethics, and Torts. He has received the law school's outstanding teacher award three times, as well as the University's outstanding volunteer award for community service, President's Associate award as the outstanding member of the tenured faculty, and the University's Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Award. He has given nearly 300 public lectures on health-law-related subjects and made nearly 2,000 media appearances around the world, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, BBC World Service Radio, The Economist, Anderson Cooper 360, NPR (Morning Edition, All Things Considered), MSNBC, CBS Evening News and NBC (Today, Nightly News).
Area of expertise
- Bioethics
- Health Law
- Non-profit Organizations
Education
B.A., Amherst College
J.D., Syracuse University College of Law
Courses
Law and Medicine: Health Care
Torts
Law and Medicine: Bioethics
Public Health Law and Ethics
Law, Literature and Medicine
Nonprofit Organizations
Legislation & Regulation
Books
TELEMEDICINE: SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS (AHLA, March 2007) (co-authored)
Articles
Foreword: Cruzan and the ‘Right to Die’, 73 SMU Law Review 3 (2020)
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Foreword (Collection: Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond), 73 SMU Law Review Forum 23 (2020)
'To Shield Thee from Diseases of the World': The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Immunization Policy, 13 Journal of Health and Life Sciences Law 3 (2020) (with Wendi Campbell Rogaliner and Elicia Grilley Green)
Brain-Dead and Pregnant in Texas, 14 American Journal of Bioethics 15 (2014)
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Tax-Exempt Hospitals: Renewed Focus on Indigent Care, 4 Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law 140 (2010)
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The Baby Doe Rules and Texas's 'Futility Law' in the NICU, 25 Georgia State University Law Review 1003-17 (2009)
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Three Ways of Looking at a Health Law and Literature Class, 1 Drexel Law Review 512 (2009)
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Living and Dying in a Post-Schiavo World, 38 Journal of Health Law 587 (2006)
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Sex, Marriage, and Law: What Hope of Harmony?, 42 Washburn Law Journal 269 (2003)
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The First Fifty Years: Health Law's Greatest Hits, 50 Syracuse Law Review 1261 (2000)
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Book chapters
Using the Humanities to Explore Professionalism in Medical and Law Schools, in (Kirk & Crespo eds. 2020)
, in RUDOLPH'S PEDIATRICS, 23rd ed. (McGraw-Hill Education 2018)
Bioethics, in , 7th ed. (AHLA 2018)
Twyla Tharp Goes to Law School: On the Use of the Visual and Performing Arts in Professional Education, in (Ashgate Press 2012)
Futility: My Life, in (Oxford University Press 2011)
Bioethics, in HEALTH LAW PRACTICE GUIDE (2d ed. 2009 and 3d ed. 2011)
Bioethics, in FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH LAW (2d ed. 2000; 3d ed. 2004; 4th ed. 2008; and 5th ed. 2011)
Living Greatly in the Law: Three Lessons, in LAW, CULTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVLOPMMENT: A LIBER AMICORUM FOR PROFESSOR ROBERTO MacLEAN, CBE, STUDIES SERIES IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ECONOMIC, AND TECHNOLOGY LAW (Vol 8 2007: Successor to the Yearbook of International Financial and Economic Law)
Ethical Aspects of Neurosurgical Practice, in TEXTBOOK OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2002) (with Howard Morgan, M.D.)
Determination of Death: Legal and Ethical Issues, in ESSENTIALS OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE, 2d ed. (Levin & Morriss 1997)
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment: Legal Issues, in ESSENTIALS OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE, 2d ed. (Levin & Morriss 1997)
Editor, SECTION 15, Ethical and Legal Issues, in ESSENTIALS OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE, 2d ed. (Levin & Morriss 1997)
Fifth Circuit, in SANCTIONS UNDER RULE 11 AND OTHER POWERS, 2d ed. (ABA 1988)
Fifth Circuit, in SANCTIONS UNDER RULE 11 AND OTHER POWERS (ABA 1986)
Other publications
Health Care Law, 63 SMU Law Review 607 (2010) (with Hallie Graves)
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Health Care Law, 62 SMU Law Review 1245 (2009) (with Tara Kepler and Lewis Lefko)
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Active Surveillance Cultures and Contact Precautions for Control of Multidrug-Resistent Organisms: Ethical Considerations, 47 Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases 110 (2008) (coauthored)
Managing and Reporting Community Incidents: Ethical Considerations, 25 Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 937 (October 2006)
Getting Political with Science, 13 SMU Research 21 (2006)
Medical Futility in the NICU: Hope for a Resolution, 116 Pediatrics 1219 (2005) (with Robert L. Fine et al.)
Health Insurance and Cardiac Transplantation: A Call for Reform, 45 Journal of American College of Cardiology 1388 (2005) (with Louise P. King et al.)
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether HMOs Can Be Sued for Negligent Treatment Decisions, 8 Mealey’s Managed Care Liability Report 26-29 (March 2004)
SMU Repository
Commentary, Changing Professional Values, 22 Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal 1096 (Dec. 2003)
Health Care Law, 56 SMU Law Review 1767 (2003)
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Resolution of Futility by Due Process: Early Experience with the Texas Advance Directives Act, ACT, 138 Annals of Internal Medicine 743 (May 2003) (with Robert Fine, M.D.)
U.S. Supreme Court to Review Kentucky's "Any Willing Provider Law," Mealey’s Managed Care Report (2002)
Health Care Law, 55 SMU Law Review 1113 (2002)
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Health Care Law, 53 SMU Law Review 1101 (2000)
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Symposium on Statutory Interpretation: Foreword, 53 SMU Law Review (2000)
Qui Tam on the Lam: Fifth Circuit Fire the First Salvo - Will the Supreme Court Be Next?, Matthew Bender Health Care Law Monthly (Dec. 1999)
Life-and-Death Decisions, 75 Texas Medicine 64 (Nov. 1999) (with Robert Fine, M.D.)
Health Care Law, 52 SMU Law Review 1259 (1999)
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Texas' New Physician Collection Bargaining Statute - Helping to Fatten Physicians' Wallets and Make Patients' Leaner, Matthew Bender Health Care Law Monthly 3 (Sept. 1999)
Treatment Alternatives for the Dying Patient: Medical Ethics and the Law, 11 Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings 175 (1998) (with Robert Fine, M.D.)
Health Care Law, 50 SMU Law Review 1275 (1997) (with Larry A. Maxwell)
Health Care Law, 49 SMU Law Review 1089 (1996) |