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Timothy M. Westmoreland

Visiting Professor of Law

B.A., Duke; J.D., Yale

From 1979 through 1995, Professor Westmoreland served as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1995...

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From 1979 through 1995, Professor Westmoreland served as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1995 through 1999, he was the Senior Policy Fellow at the Law Center's Federal Legislation Clinic. From mid-1999 through January 2001, Professor Westmoreland was the Director of the Medicaid program for the Federal government. He has worked extensively on public health and health finance policy. Professor Westmoreland was counsel to the Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health and an advisor to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

He has also been the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Award, working on budget process and health policy.

Recent Scholarship

Books

  • Timothy M. Westmoreland & Elenora E. Conners, Legal Solutions in Health Reform: Project Overview and Emerging Themes (Wash., D.C.: The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law 2009).   

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Timothy M. Westmoreland & Sara Rosenbaum, The Supreme Court’s Surprising Decision on the Medicaid Expansion: How Will the Federal Government and States Proceed?, 31 Health Aff. 1663-1672 (2012).   
  • Timothy M. Westmoreland, Can We Get There from Here? Universal Health Insurance and the Congressional Budget Process, 96 Geo. L.J. 523-538 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Timothy M. Westmoreland, Standard Errors: How Budget Rules Distort Lawmaking, 95 Geo. L.J. 1555-1610 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Timothy M. Westmoreland & Kathryn R. Watson, Redeeming Hollow Promises: The Case For Mandatory Spending on Health Care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, 96 Am. J. Pub. Health 600-605 (2006).    [W]

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Books

  • Timothy M. Westmoreland & Elenora E. Conners, Legal Solutions in Health Reform: Project Overview and Emerging Themes (Wash., D.C.: The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law 2009).   

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Timothy M. Westmoreland & Sara Rosenbaum, The Supreme Court’s Surprising Decision on the Medicaid Expansion: How Will the Federal Government and States Proceed?, 31 Health Aff. 1663-1672 (2012).   
  • Timothy M. Westmoreland, Can We Get There from Here? Universal Health Insurance and the Congressional Budget Process, 96 Geo. L.J. 523-538 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Timothy M. Westmoreland, Standard Errors: How Budget Rules Distort Lawmaking, 95 Geo. L.J. 1555-1610 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Timothy M. Westmoreland & Kathryn R. Watson, Redeeming Hollow Promises: The Case For Mandatory Spending on Health Care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, 96 Am. J. Pub. Health 600-605 (2006).    [W]
  • Timothy M. Westmoreland, Sherry Glied, Linda Bilheimer, Judith Feder, Len Nichols & Kenneth Thorpe, Health Policy Roundtable--Policy By Numbers: The Role of Budget Estimates and Scoring in Health Care Reform, 40 Health Services Res. 347-359 (2005).   

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Timothy Westmoreland Profile
  • Email:

    westmort@law.georgetown.edu

  • Address:

    600 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
    Washington, DC 20001

  • Office Location:

    Hotung 5015

  • Assistant:

    Jonathan Zimmer

  • Phone:

    202-662-9404

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