FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Professor Robert B (sic) Leflar, Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law, recently presented papers on various aspects of Japanese health law and patients' rights issues overseas.

Leflar presented his findings at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs in Cambridge, England, Oct. 10, 2000; the 5th World Congress of Bioethics in London, Sept. 23, 2000; the 13th World Congress on Medical Law in Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 8, 2000; and at the Health Law Teachers' Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, June 9, 2000.

He is on leave this year on an Abe Fellowship, spending this fall semester at Harvard and the first half of 2001 at Tokyo University in Japan.

Professor Leflar’s specialties are health law, products liability, torts, contracts and international comparative law.

Previously, he had two fellowships abroad, including the Fulbright Scholar in Japan in 1988-89 and the Japan Foundation Fellow in Japan in 1992. He was awarded a grant by the Social Science Research Council’s Abe Fellowship Program for a research project on comparative health law, where he will spend the fall of 2000 at Harvard School of Public Health and the first seven months of 2001 at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law.

Prior to law teaching, Leflar clerked for Judge George Edwards (U.S. Court of Appeals, 6^th Circuit) and was a staff attorney for Public Citizen Health Research Group in Washington, D.C. He is active in various public interest organizations such as the Arkansas Chapter of the Sierra Club and is a devoted baseball fan.

For information on how to contact professor Leflar for comment, please call Rhonda Adams, assistant dean for administration, at 575-5612. She can also be reached by e-mail at rhonda@uark.edu.

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