Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Dayna Matthew

Professor of Law

University of Colorado Law School
417 Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309-0401
Phone: (303) 735-5717
E-mail: dayna.matthew@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae:  View (PDF format)

Educational Background:
AB   Harvard-Radcliffe     
JD   University of Virginia     

Bio:
Professor Matthew joined the University of Colorado faculty in 2003 as an Associate Professor, teaching Evidence, Health Law I (Health Finance and Administration Law) and Health Law II (Medical Malpractice Litigation and Ethics). In 2004, she became the Law School's Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.

As an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, Professor Matthew also taught Advanced Torts, Civil Procedure and Products Liability. At the University of Kentucky, Professor Matthew taught Corporate Transactions in Health Care, as well as two interdisciplinary courses in Bioethics and Medical Malpractice which included law, medical, nursing, pharmacy and public health students studying the law together. Professor Matthew hopes to bring this interdisciplinary approach to the study of health law here to the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Professor Matthew has practiced as a civil litigator both in Kentucky, at the law firm of Greenebaum, Doll and McDonald, and in Virginia, at McGuire Woods where her work primarily focused on the defense of medical care providers and corporate manufacturers in state courts, Federal Courts, and before administrative and licensing tribunals.

Professor Matthew graduated with an A.B. in Economics from Harvard-Radcliffe and, after a brief stint as a commercial real estate banker, obtained a J.D. from the University of Virginia. While studying at Virginia, Professor Matthew served as an editor of the Virginia Law Review; won the Law School's two year Lile Moot Court Competition; and taught as a Hardy Dillard Writing Fellow. Following graduation, Professor Matthew enjoyed the privilege of clerking for The Honorable John Charles Thomas, the first African-American justice to sit on the Virginia Supreme Court.

Professor Matthew has written articles on health and antitrust law topics which have appeared in the Virginia Law Review, Houston Law Review and the Wake Forest Law Review the Indiana Law Journal, the Kentucky Law Journal and the St. Louis University Law Journal, as well as the American Journal of Law and Medicine.


Articles

Implementing American Health Care Reform: The Fiduciary Imperative, 59 Buff. L. Rev. 715 (2011).
Matthew (with Mark Earnest), A Property Right To Medical Care, 29 J. Leg. Med. 65-80 (2008).
The "Race Card" and Reforming American Health Insurance, 14 Conn. Ins. L.J. 435 (2008).
Race, Religion, and Informed Consent: Lessons from Social Science, 36 J. L., Med. & Ethics 150 (2008).
The Moral Hazard Problem with Privatization of Public Enforcement: The Case of Pharmaceutical Fraud, 40 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 281 (2007).
Disastrous Disasters: Restoring Civil Rights Protections for Victims of the State in Natural Disasters, II J. Health & Biomed. L. 213 (2006).
A New Strategy to Combat Racial Inequality In American Health Care Delivery, 9 DePaul J. Health Care L. 793 (2006).
Assessing Patient Protection Laws, 47 St. Louis U. L.J. 299 (2003).

Symposia and Invited

The Social Psychology of Limiting Health Care Benefits for Undocumented Immigrants—Moving Beyond Race, Class, and Nativism, 10 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol’y 201 (2010) (Race and Healthcare in America)..
Defeating Health Disparities—A Property Interest Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, 113 W. Va. L. Rev. 31 (2010) (Donley Lecture Series: Health Care in America).

Press, Media & Publicity

CU Law makes first-ever curriculum change for first-year students | Daily Camera | Monday, July 12, 2010
Law students' interest in immigration grows | The Denver Post | Monday, June 21, 2010
CU-Boulder Law School conference addresses crime inequality | Daily Camera | Thursday, February 18, 2010
Anger over health care spills into courtroom | Denver Business Journal | Monday, October 19, 2009

Courses:

Fall 2013 Health Law I: Finance, Administration and Organization of Health Care LAWS 7425-001
Fall 2013 Poverty, Health and Law LAWS 7535-001
Spring 2013 Constitutional Law LAWS 6005-804
Fall 2012 Civil Procedure LAWS 5303-801
Fall 2012 Health Law I: Finance, Administration and Organization of Health Care LAWS 7425-001
Summer 2010 Health Law II: Medical Malpractice Litigation LAWS 7405-001
Spring 2010 Health Law I: Finance, Administration and Organization of Health Care LAWS 7425-003
Fall 2009 Comparative Public Health Law and Ethics LAWS 8430-001