Faculty and Administration Profiles

Richard M. Weinmeyer

About

Richard (“Rick”) Weinmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Law and a faculty member of the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy. Dr. Weinmeyer’s research interests are in the fields of public health law, health law, bioethics, and research methods. His specific research seeks to understand how law and policy can be used to solve fundamental issues in public health, including sanitation, infectious disease prevention and treatment, access to health care, stigma, and dignitary harms.

Prior to joining Loyola, Dr. Weinmeyer was a Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property at DePaul University’s College of Law. There he taught courses on public health law, food and drug law, and bioethics and the law. Dr. Weinmeyer also spent four years at the American Medical Association where he worked with the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs and conducted research on legal and ethical issues in medicine and public health. Before pursuing his doctorate and law degree, he oversaw National Institutes of Health-supported HIV/STI social and behavioral research grants at the University of Minnesota’s Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Dr. Weinmeyer completed his Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Public Health at Northwestern University and received his J.D. and M.A. in Bioethics from the University of Minnesota. His research has been published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice, and AMA Journal of Ethics, among others.

Degrees

Ph.D., Northwestern University
M.A., University of Minnesota
J.D., University of Minnesota Law School
M.Phil., Cambridge University
B.A., University of Washington

Courses Taught

Torts
Public health law