Dr. Daniel G. Aaron is Associate Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah.  He received his JD from Harvard Law School and his MD from the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.  Professor Aaron’s research examines how the law shapes life and death in the United States and the legal and social trends that explain the fall in American life expectancy.  To this end, he writes on the intersection of food and drug law, administrative law, tort law, politics, and the Supreme Court.  Prior to becoming a law professor, he clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit with Judge John K. Bush and served as Assistant Chief Counsel at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration