Lewis Grossman, a leading academic authority on food and drug law, has represented food and drug clients in a wide variety of complex matters. He is a Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law and was an associate at Covington & Burling earlier in his career. He is the co-author with Covington's Peter Barton Hutt and Richard Merrill of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 2014), a leading text in the field.
Professor Grossman has served as a member of or legal consultant to three different Institute of Medicine Committees, focused on dietary supplements, food, and pharmaceuticals, respectively. He has testified before the U.S. Senate on FDA regulation of tobacco products 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 a member of the Board of Directors of the Food and Drug Law Institute. Professor Grossman has also written a leading textbook on civil procedure.