Robert A. Katz Professor of Law John S. Grimes Fellow Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 327 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 278-4791 Fax: (317) 278-3326 E-Mail: rokatz@iupui.edu

Education

A.B. (magna cum laude), 1987, Harvard College
J.D. (Honors), 1992, University of Chicago Law School

Courses

The law of nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, the corporate and tax aspects of health care organizations, and trusts and estates.

Bio

Robert Katz joined the law school faculty in the fall of 2001. He holds a joint appointment with the law school and the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy at IUPUI, and is on the Affiliate Faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. Prior to his appointment, he served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. From 1993 to 1997, he was a trial attorney with the Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He also served as executive director of a charitable foundation in Massachusetts.

Professor Katz’s research interests include legal issues relating to nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, charitable giving, healthcare organizations, and the recovery and processing of donated human tissue for use in transplantation. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as comment editor for the University of Chicago Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, formerly Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Professor Katz was awarded a Grimes Fellowship in 2007, and was named a Dean's Fellow in recognition of scholarly excellence in 2005-2006.

Publications

Books and Chapters

“`PAGING DR. SHYLOCK...': Jewish Hospitals and the Prudent Re-investment of Jewish Philanthropy," a chapter in David Smith, ed., Giving: For the Love of God (Indiana University Press, Spring 2010).


Law Review and Journal Articles

The Re-Gift of Life: Can Charity Law Prevent For-Profit Firms from Exploiting Nonprofit Tissue Banks and Donated Tissue?, 55 DEPAUL L. REV. 943 (2006), published as part of the DePaul Law Review and Health Law Institute’s Symposium: “Precious Commodities - The Supply and Demand of Body Parts.”

Let Charitable Directors Direct: Why Trust Law Should Not Curb Board Discretion Over a Charitable Corporation's Mission and Unrestricted Assets, 80 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 689 (2005), published as part of the Chicago-Kent Law Review’s 2005 Symposium: “Who Guards The Guardians?: Monitoring And Enforcement Of Charity Governance.”

Too Much Of A Good Thing: When Charitable Gifts Augment Victim Compensation, 53 DEPAUL L. REV. 547 (2003)), published as part of the Depaul Law Review’s Ninth Annual Clifford Symposium On Tort Law And Social Policy: “After Disaster: The September 11th Compensation Fund and the Future of Civil Justice.”

A Pig in a Python: How the Charitable Response to September 11 Overwhelmed the Law of Disaster Relief, 36 IND. L. REV. 251 (2003), published as part of the John M. Olin Program in Law And Economics at Georgetown University Law Center’s 2002 Symposium: “The Law And Economics Of Providing Compensation For Harm Caused by Terrorism."

Can Principal-Agent Models Help Explain Charitable Gifts And Organizations? 2000 WIS. L. REV. 1.

Comment, The Jurisprudence Of Legitimacy: Applying The Constitution To U.S. Territories, 59 U. CHI. L. REV. 779 (1992).


Essays and Reports

The Legal Column: Do tissue banks have a First Amendment right not to tell potential donors about for-profit processors? LAHEY CLINIC MEDICAL ETHICS 4 (Fall 2006).

The Legal Column: Who should capture the value of donated tissue?, LAHEY CLINIC MEDICAL ETHICS JOURNAL 4 (Fall 2005). Republished in David Steinberg, ed., Biomedical Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology 306-308 (University Press of New England, 2007).


Book Reviews

Peter Frumkin, On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer, 15 VOLUNTAS: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF VOLUNTARY AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 208 (2004)


Other Publications

"The Re-Gift of Life: Who Should Capture the Value of Donated Human Tissue," THE HEALTH LAWYER 14(Vol. 18; No. 4: 2006)(publication of the ABA's Health Law Section).

“Donor Intent,” I PHILANTHROPY IN AMERICA: A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 120 (2004).

"Zipping It: Lawyers and Doctors Who Help the Poor Should Both Be Able to Speak Their Minds," LEGAL TIMES 75, 77 (May 21, 2001).


Electronic Publications/Products

"Current Developments: The Business in Human Tissue," Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, Hall Center for Law and Health E-newsletter(December 2008).

Robert Katz, "Continuing Their Mission, Jewish Hospitals Reinvest in Philanthropy", The Jewish Daily Forward online (June 18, 2008).


Work in Progress

"Freezing-out the Founders: Corporate Law and the Sale of Ben & Jerry’s" (with A. Page)

"The Economic Role of Social Enterprise: A Preliminary Inquiry" (with A. Page).