Thaddeus Mason Pope is a foremost expert on medical law and clinical ethics. He maintains a special focus on patient rights, healthcare decision making, and end-of-life options.
A Hastings Center Fellow and former Fulbright Scholar and Brocher Foundation Researcher, Pope is a law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. While he serves in a range of consulting capacities, Pope has been particularly influential through his extensive, high-impact scholarship.
Ranked in the Top 20 most-cited health law scholars in the United States, Professor Pope has over 300 publications in leading medical journals, bioethics journals, and law reviews.
Pope authors medical jurisprudence topics for The Merck Manual and UpToDate.He coauthors the definitive, biannually-updated reference book The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking (Wolters Kluwer), and coauthors Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate Widely Available Option for Hastening Death (Oxford University Press). Pope also runs the Medical Futility Blog (with over five million page-views).