Bar Fellowship
Medical Jurisprudence, University of Edinburgh School of Law, Edinburgh, Scotland, Fall, 1999, 2004. Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Medical Ethics, University of California at San Francisco Medical School, 1984-1987. Executive Editor and Author,
"Miller & Starr Real Estate NewsAlert," West Publishing Group, 1999-2001. Author:
"The Human Body and the Law," Edinburgh University Press, 1970 (1st ed.), Edinburgh University Press and Stanford University Press 1990 (2nd ed.);
"Medico-Legal Implications of Death and Dying," Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., 1981 and annual supplements 1982-1993. Chapter, "Chester v. Afshar: Sayonara, Sub Silentio, Sidaway?,"
First Do No Harm, Ashgate, 2006. Chapter, "TB Smith: a Pioneer of Modern Medical Jurisprudence,"
A Mixed Legal System in Transition: TB Smith and the Progress of Scots Law, Edinburgh University Press, 2005; "Wyatt and Winston-Jones: who decides to treat or let die seriously ill babies," 9
Edinburgh Law Review 407, May 2005. Co-Author: "Restitution of Art and Culture Objects: A Reassessment of the Role of Limitation,"
Art, Antiquity and Law, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2001; "Purchase Agreements: parties don't always agree," p. 32,
Wines & Vines, Oct., 1999; "Physician Assisted Suicide: A Second View from Mid Atlantic,"
Anglo-American Law Review, July 1999. Co-Editor:
Comparative and Historical Essays in Scots Law: A Tribute to Professor Sir Thomas Smith, Q.C.; Chapter, "Letting Doctor and Patient Decide - The Wisdom of Scots Law," London and Edinburgh, Butterworths, 1992; Chapter, "The Family and Life and Death Decisions," in
Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advance, Edinburgh University Press, 1990; Chapter, "Selective Non-Treatment of Handicapped Infants,"
Issues in Human Reproduction, Hampshire, Gower Pub. Ltd., 1989; Chapter, "Parental Rights and Consent to Medical Treatment of Minors,"
Pediatric Forensic Medicine & Pathology, London, Champan & Hall Ltd., 1989; "Parental Choice and Selective Non-Treatment of Deformed Newborn: A View from the Mid-Atlantic,"
The Journal of Medical Ethics, June, 1986; "The Contingent Fee in California Legal Practice,"
The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, Vol. 30, 9, September 1985; "The Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care: A New Element of the Estate Planning Package,"
Estate Planning and California Probate Reporter, Vol. VI, No. 4, p. 73, February, 1985; "Legal Aspects of Withdrawing Nourishment From An Incurably Ill Patient,"
Arch Intern Med., Vol. 145, p. 125, January, 1985; "Using a Durable Power of Attorney for the Authorization of Withdrawal of Medical Care,"
Estate Planning, Vol. II, No. 5, p. 282, September, 1984; "The Right to Die," International Academy of Estate and Trust Law Proceedings, July, 1984; "Informed Consent to Medical Treatment and the Incompetent Patient Under California's New Conservatorship Law,"
CTLA Forum, Vol. XI, No. 10, December, 1981; "Medico/Legal Aspects of Care for the Dying," 1980
Scots Law Times, 193; "Time of Death - Medico-legal Considerations," 16
Am Jur Proof of Facts, 2d. 87, August, 1978; "The California Natural Death Act: A Critical Appraisal," 52
Calif. State Bar Journal, No. 4, July/August, 1977; Chapter, "Legal Aspects,"
The Dilemmas of Euthanasia, New York, Doubleday, 1975; "The Legal Aspects of Medical Euthanasia,"
Bioscience, August, 1973; "Organ Transplantation and the Law," XXI
Impact of Science on Society, Paris, UNESCO, No. 3, 1971; "Problems of Sex Determination and Alteration,"
The Medico-Legal Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, 1968. Visiting Lecturer, University of Aberdeen School of Law, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1997, 1999 and 2004; University of Edinburgh School of Law, 1985. Judge Pro Tem, Napa Superior Court; Napa Municipal Court. Member, Board of Directors, Napa Valley Vintners' Auction Napa Valley, 2008—. Member, Board of Trustees, 1987-1992 and Chairman, 1990-1992, Queen of the Valley Hospital. Member, Board of Directors, 1992-2012 and President, 1997-1999, Napa Valley College Foundation. Board of Directors, 2003-2009, Community Foundation of the Napa Valley.
Member: Napa County Bar Association (President, 1986-1987); State Bar of California.
