The University of Colorado at Boulder Law School

Associate Dean
Dayna Matthew

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law

University of Colorado Law School
326M 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

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).

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 Health Law Review 793 (2006).

Assessing Patient Protection Laws, 47 St. Louis U. L.J. 299 (2003).

Courses:

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
Summer 2008	Health Law II: Medical Malpractice Litigation	LAWS 7405-001
Spring 2008	Public Health Law and Ethics	LAWS 8405-001
Fall 2007	Health Law I: Finance, Administration and Organization of Health Care	LAWS 7425-001
Spring 2007	Civil Procedure	LAWS 5313-803
Fall 2006	Health Law II: Medical Malpractice Litigation	LAWS 7405-001
Fall 2006	Bioethics and Law	LAWS 7415-001
Fall 2006	Bioethics and Law	LAWS 8415-001