Lance Tibbles
Professor of Law
Director, Ethics Institute
B.S. with honors, University of Oregon, 1960
J.D., University of Oregon, 1963
Professor
Tibbles is an authority on health law issues and legal ethics. He has
written extensively in the biomedical ethics areas of informed consent,
definition of death, refusing life-prolonging treatment, reproductive
rights, and human experimentation, as well as in other medical-legal topics,
property, and governmental grievance response mechanisms. He is a frequent
speaker on medical-legal topics and is a past recipient of a National
Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship to study the prolonging of life
when there is no hope of recovery. He was a Fellow in Law, Science, and
Medicine at Yale Law School from 1974 to 1976. Professor Tibbles has been
a member of the Capital University Law faculty since 1976 and teaches
Professional Responsibility, Health Law, Bioethics Law, and Control of
Research and Therapy. He served as associate dean for the Law School from
1986 to 1990 and is director of the Ethics Institute. He is the chair
of the Ohio State Bar Association's Committee on Legal Education and is
a member of the Special Commission on the Education of Lawyers. He is
chair of Capital University's Research Review Committee and serves on
the Professional Ethics and Grievance Committee of the Columbus Bar Association,
which investigates violations of attorney disciplinary rules.
Professor
Tibbles is an authority on health law issues and legal ethics. He has
written extensively in the biomedical ethics areas of informed consent,
definition of death, refusing life-prolonging treatment, reproductive
rights, and human experimentation, as well as in other medical-legal topics,
property, and governmental grievance response mechanisms. He is a frequent
speaker on medical-legal topics and is a past recipient of a National
Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship to study the prolonging of life
when there is no hope of recovery. He was a Fellow in Law, Science, and
Medicine at Yale Law School from 1974 to 1976. Professor Tibbles has been
a member of the Capital University Law faculty since 1976 and teaches
Professional Responsibility, Health Law, Bioethics Law, and Control of
Research and Therapy. He served as associate dean for the Law School from
1986 to 1990 and is director of the Ethics Institute. He is the chair
of the Ohio State Bar Association's Committee on Legal Education and is
a member of the Special Commission on the Education of Lawyers. He is
chair of Capital University's Research Review Committee and serves on
the Professional Ethics and Grievance Committee of the Columbus Bar Association,
which investigates violations of attorney disciplinary rules. 