Lewis A. Grossman

Lewis Grossman is of counsel to the firm's food and drug practice and a Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law. Professor Grossman was an associate at Covington & Burling earlier in his career.  Professor Grossman teaches food and drug law and has a broad knowledge of the food and drug regulatory field.  He is the co-author with Covington's Peter Barton Hutt and Richard Merrill of the forthcoming third edition of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 2007). Professor Grossman has testified before the U.S. Senate on FDA regulation of tobacco products, served as a legal consultant to the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements, and acted as a legal consultant to Senator John McCain on Hatch -Waxman reform. He has lectured extensively on food and drug matters and is active in the Food and Drug Law Institute. Professor Grossman has also written a leading textbook on civil procedure.

Representative Matters

• Advised leading pharmaceutical company on legal issues concerning its submission of a supplemental new animal drug application.
• On behalf of major multinational consumer products corporation, prepared brief to FDA on the market introduction of a direct-to-consumer version of a prescription medical device.
• For a leading pharmaceutical company, examined procedural issues regarding potential withdrawal of a new animal drug application.   

Previous Experience

• U.S. Department of the Treasury, White House Security Review, Assistant Director (1994-1995)    

Honors and Rankings

• Egon Guttman Casebook Award, American University, Washington College of Law (2000)
• Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1990)

Pro Bono

• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Legal Consultant, Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements, Food and Nutrition Board (2002-2004)
• Advised founders of NGO dedicated to managing the risks associated with the spread of biotechnology.

Memberships and Affiliations

• Food and Drug Law Institute, Academic Programs Committee and Writing Awards Committee

Publications and Speeches

• "James Coolidge Carter and John Norton Pomeroy," Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, Yale University Press (forthcoming 2008)
• "Codes and Codification: United States Law," Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2008)

• "Food, Drugs, and Droods: A Historical Consideration of Definitions and Categories in American Food and Drug Law," 93 Cornell Law Review 1091 (2008), Author
• "Langdell Upside-Down: James Coolidge Carter and the Anticlassical Jurisprudence of Anticodification," 19 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 149 (2007)
• "Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials," Foundation Press (2007), Co-Author