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Julie Cantor, MD, JD
Julie Cantor, MD, JD

    Dr. Julie Cantor is an adjunct professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a litigator in the Los Angeles office of the firm Golden Ismail Tomaselli Brennen & Baum LLP.

    Dr. Cantor joined the firm in 2005 after completing her medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine, and she has worked on a number of matters that utilize her medical expertise.  For example, she represented a group of critical care experts in Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. ___ (2008), a case that challenged Kentucky's lethal injection protocol, and co-authored their amicus curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court on the role of paralytic agents in end-of-life care.  She has also represented a client on Nevada's Death Row in an appeal to the state's high court involving DNA-related issues, a national non-profit organization in a matter involving patient privacy, and a hospital under investigation for alleged improprieties in its transplant program.

    Both before and after she joined MTO, Dr. Cantor has welcomed public speaking and teaching opportunities in the greater community.  She has been the featured Grand Rounds speaker on various topics in medical ethics and law at the Yale University School of Medicine, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the University of Minnesota Medical School and Law School, and the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Law.  She has been sought out for opinions on topics that fall at the intersection of law and medicine, most recently by the New York Times. Currently, at the UCLA School of Law, Dr. Cantor teaches an upper-division seminar entitled, "Reproduction, Medical Ethics & the Law."

    During law school at the University of California (Boalt Hall), Dr. Cantor was one of three students chosen to work in the school's newly formed Appellate Advocacy Clinic.  She was also a member of the California Law Review. During her time with the Law Review, she published a Book Note entitled, Inside a Half-Court Press: Television News and the Supreme Court, and she was elected to be an articles editor.  She served in that position before moving to New Haven to complete her final year of study at the Yale Law School.

    Dr. Cantor's background also includes experience in government and journalism.  While at Stanford, she worked in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy as a Stanford-in-Government Fellow.  She was also a writer, editor, and weekly columnist for the Stanford Daily, and she worked at the ABC News program Nightline during Ted Koppel's tenure.  She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics (Honorable Mention), and her work has been published in several law reviews and journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine.

    Schedule28 Mar 2024