University of St. Thomas

Professor Rene Bowser received his B.A. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, his M.A. in economics from Northwestern University, his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. After receiving his J.D., he practiced law with major law firms in the San Francisco area from 1994-1997, specializing in the field of health law. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Health & Human Services and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Race & Bioethics.

Professor Bowser’s current research focuses on the impact of medical and bioethical policy on communities of color. He has presented papers relating to his research on racial bias in medical treatment at numerous forums, including the Tuskegee Center Conference on Bioethics, Minorities and the Law, the International Conference on Mental Health, and the 2001 Mid-Atlantic People of Color Conference at the Dickinson School of Law.

Bowser was a visiting faculty member at the University of St. Thomas School of Law during the 2003-2004 academic year. Prior to his arrival at the School of Law, Professor Bowser taught torts and advanced topics in health care law and policy at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Representative Scholarship

Medical Civil Rights: The Exclusion of Physicians of Color from Managed Care -- Business or Bias? (forthcoming).

Race as a Proxy for Drug Response: The Dangers and Challenges of Ethnic Drugs, 53 DePaul Law Review 1111 (2004).

Racial Bias in Medical Treatment, 105 Dickinson Law Review 365 (2001).

Racial Profiling in Health Care: An Institutional Analysis of Medical Treatment Disparities, 7 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 79 (2001).

Managed Care and the Health of a Nation, with Lawrence O. Gostin 72 Southern Califrnia Law Review 1209 (1999).

Courses Taught

Administrative Law
Torts
Race, Health Care & Law

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