James Toomey

James Toomey
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
2021-2022
Griswold 116
Assistant: Ellen Shapiro-Smith / 617-496-8455
Biography
James Toomey researches health law, bioethics, and property, with a particular emphasis on elder law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, the Elder Law Journal, the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, the American Journal of Law and Medicine, the American Journal of Bioethics – Empirical Bioethics, and the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.
James received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was a Student Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. In addition, he received the Harvard Distinction in Teaching Award for his work as a Teaching Fellow for Professor Michael Sandel’s undergraduate class “Money, Markets, and Morals,” and served as the Executive Editor for Online for the Harvard National Security Journal. After law school, he clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
James received his B.A. from Cornell University with degrees in English, summa cum laude, and Government, magna cum laude, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and wrote award-winning honors theses in both majors. He is most interested in teaching Health Care Law, Property, Trusts and Estates, Elder Law, and Contracts.
Areas of Interest
- Health Law
- Ethics: Bioethics
- Property
- Elder Law
Bar Admissions
- New York
Clerkships
- Stanley Marcus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2019 - 2020
Education History
- J.D. Harvard Law School, 2019
- B.A. Government; English Cornell University, 2016
Current Courses
- Contemporary Challenges in Elder Law, Spring 2022
- First Year Legal Research and Writing 5A, Fall 2021
- First Year Legal Research and Writing 5A, Spring 2022

Griswold 116
Assistant: Ellen Shapiro-Smith / 617-496-8455