Mary Crossley's scholarship has focused on issues of inequality in the financing and delivery of health care, encompassing topics ranging from an exploration of potential legal remedies for physician bias in medical treatment, to an examination of how recent trends in health insurance coverage function to discriminate against unhealthy people, to a consideration of how assisted reproductive technologies implicate equality concerns. She has published broadly, in journals including Columbia Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and Rutgers Law Journal. Crossley's scholarly interests are reflected in a seminar that she has developed on Health Care & Civil Rights, and she has also taught courses in Health Law, Bioethics & Law, Family Law, Torts, and Contracts. Immediately prior to coming to Pitt Law in 2005, Crossley was the Florida Bar Health Law Section Professor of Law at Florida State University and before that she was on the faculty at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, including two years of service as Associate Academic Dean. Before beginning to teach, she practiced corporate and health care law in San Francisco and New Haven, and clerked for Judge Harry Wellford on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Education

JD, Vanderbilt University

BA, University of Virginia

• Contracts
• Family Law
• Health Care and Civil Rights Seminar

Specialization

• Health Law
• Disability Discrimination Law
• Family Law

Selected Publications

Book Chapters:

• In re T.A.C.P. and In the Matter of Baby K: Anencephaly and Slippery Slopes, Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context, (2009).
• The Essential Three Rs of Deanhood, Leading a Law School: Top Deans on Establishing Best Practices, Serving School Constituencies, and Planning Strategically for the Future, (Thomson/Aspatore, 2008).
• Impairment and Embodiment, Americans With Disabilities: Implications Of The Law For Individuals And Institutions, (Leslie Francis & Anita Silvers eds., 2000).

Articles:

• Tax-Exempt Hospitals, Community Health Needs and Addressing Disparities, 55 Howard Law Journal 687 (2012).
• Learning by Doing: an Experience with Outcomes Assessment (with Lu-in Wang), 41 Univ. Toledo L. Rev. 269 (2010) (essay for the University of Toledo Law Review’s Leadership in Legal Education Symposium series).
• Rescuing Baby Doe, 25 Georgia State University Law Review 1043 (2009) (symposium essay).
• Non-Profit Hospitals, Tax Exemptions and Access for the Uninsured, 2 Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental & Public Health Law (Spring 2008).
• Dimensions of Equality in Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 9 Journal of Gender Race & Justice 273 (2005).
• Discrimination Against the Unhealthy in Health Insurance, 54 Kansas Law Review 73 (2005).
• Reasonable Accommodation as Part and Parcel of the Antidiscrimination Project, 35 Rutgers L. J. 861 (2004).
• Mary A. Crossley & Lois Shepherd, Genes and Disability: Questions at the Crossroads, 30 Florida State University Law Review XI (2003) (Symposium Introduction).
• Infected Judgment: Legal Responses to Physician Bias, 48 Villanova Law Review 195 (2003).
• Becoming Visible, The ADA's Impact on Healthcare for Persons with Disabilities, 52 Alabama L. Rev. 51 (2001)

Presentations:

• “Tax-exempt Hospitals and Community Health Needs,” Wiley Branton Symposium entitled Health Care Reform and Vulnerable Populations, sponsored by Howard Law Journal, Washington, D.C., (Nov. 2011).
• “Disability Cultural Competence in the Professions,” presentation at Carlow University as part of Disability Awareness Month programing, Pittsburgh, (Oct. 2011).

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