- University Department Law
- Location HPU Law School, Office 232
- Phone Number 336-841-2629
- Email [email protected]
In fall 2024, Professor Van Tassel is teaching Torts at HPU Law. Formerly, she was a Professor at the Case Western University School of Law where she served as the Executive Director and Founder of the Graduate Programs in Compliance and Risk Management. Previously, she served as Dean and Professor of Law at the San Francisco Law School, the oldest law school in San Francisco.
Professor Van Tassel’s co-authored book Food and Drug Administration has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and by numerous federal district courts and courts of appeals; her research has been cited by judges on the supreme courts of New Mexico and Nevada on issues of first impression; and she has testified as an expert witness at hearings held by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C., as well as at hearings held before the Ohio Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She is the Chair of the Food & Drug Law Committee of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association and has served on the executive boards of the Law, Medicine, and Healthcare Section, the Law and Mental Disability Section, and the BioLaw Section of the Association of American Law Schools. She is the Editor of HealthLawProf Blog, has served as a blogger on Bill of Health, a blog of the Petrie-Flom Center at the Harvard School of Law, and as a blogger on BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of The Harvard Club of Northeast Ohio.
Professor Van Tassel has served as a Hearing Officer for medical staff peer review proceedings and is a consultant on matters involving the abuse and neglect of nursing home residents. She has served as a member of both the clinical ethics review team and the institutional review board for experimental drugs and devices of the largest hospital system in Western Massachusetts.
At the start of her career, Professor Van Tassel clerked for U.S. District Court Judge William K. Thomas before becoming an associate with the international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (now Squire, Patton, Boggs). She has regularly taught Health Law, Healthcare Organization & Finance, Compliance & Risk Management, Bioethics, Public Health Law, Food, Drug & Biotech Law, Eldercare Law, Torts, Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Sales.