Joshua Perry

Joshua E. Perry (J.D., M.T.S.) is Glaubinger Chair for Undergraduate Leadership and Associate Professor of Business Law

Areas of Expertise

Legal, ethical, and policy issues in healthcare, the life sciences, and the business of medicine. Moral decision making and critical thinking.

Academic Degrees

• JD, Vanderbilt University Law School, 2002
• MTS, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 2002
• BA, Lipscomb University, 1997

Professional Experience

• Business litigation associate, 2002-2004

Awards, Honors & Certificates

• Recipient, Distinguished Junior Faculty Award - Academy of Legal Studies in Business (2013)
• Recipient, Hoeber Memorial Award for Excellence in Research - American Business Law Journal (2014)
• Recipient, Best Article Award for 2012 - International Association for Business and Society (2014)
• Recipient, Hoeber Memorial Award (recognizing the most outstanding article in volume 49) - American Business Law Journal (2012)
• Recipient, Virginia Maurer Ethics Paper Award - Academy of Legal Studies in Business (2011)
• Recipient, Best Published Life Sciences Paper Award - Center for the Business of Life Sciences, Kelley School of Business (2009)
• Recipient, Innovative Teaching Award (2014-15)
• Recipient, Trustees'' Teaching Award (2010, 2013)
• Recipient, Jesse Fine Fellowship in Practical Ethics (2013)
• Recipient, IU Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) Writing Program Summer Writing-Teaching Grant
• Elected Member, IU Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching

Selected Publications

• Perry, Joshua E. (2015), "The People’s NIH? Ethical and Legal Concerns in Crowdfunded Biomedical Research," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, (invited contribution to Symposium issue), 29(2): 451-470.
• Bishop, Jeffrey, Joshua E. Perry, and Amanda Hine (2014), "Efficient, Compassionate, and Fractured: Contemporary Care in the ICU," 44 The Hastings Center Report, 35-43.
• Perry, Joshua E., Dena Cox, & Anthony D. Cox (2014), "Trust and Transparency: Patient Perceptions of Physicians’ Financial Relationships with Pharmaceutical Companies," 42 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 475-491
• Perry, Joshua E., (2013), "Before the Mandate: Cultivating an Organizational Culture of Trust and Integrity," American Journal of Bioethics, September, 42-44.
• Perry, Joshua E., Anthony D. Cox, and Dena Cox (2013), "Direct-to Consumer Drug Advertisements and the Informed Patient: A Legal, Ethical, and Content Analysis, American Business Law Journal, 50(4): 729-778.
• Perry, Joshua E. (2012), "Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Health Care Reform at the Intersection of Law and Ethics," American Business Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, June, pp. 369-417.  
• Perry, Joshua E. and Jamie D. Prenkert (2012), "Charting a Course to Effective Business Education: Lessons from Academically Adrift and Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education," Journal of Legal Studies Education, Vol. 29, No. 1, Winter/Spring, pp. 127–143. 
• Perry, Joshua E. (2011), "Managing Moral Distress: A Strategy for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas," Business Horizons, Vol. 54, pp. 393-397. 
• Perry, Joshua E. and Robert Stone (2011), "In the Business of Dying: Questioning the Commercialization of Hospice,"  Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 39, pp. 224-234. 
• Perry, Joshua E., and Jeffrey Bishop (2010), "Life, Death (Panels), and the Body Politic, 61 Syracuse Law Review 25-48.
• Perry, Joshua E. (2010), "The Ethical Costs of Commercializing the Professions: First-Person Narratives From the Legal and Medical Trenches," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change, Vol. 13, pp. 169-201.
• Perry, Joshua E. (2010), "A Missed Opportunity: Health Care Reform, Rhetoric, Ethics, and Economics at the End of Life," Mississippi College Law Review, Vol. 29, pp. 409-426.  
• Perry, Joshua E. (2010), "An Obituary for Physician-Owned, Specialty Hospitals," The Health Lawyer, Vol. 23, pp. 24-34.
• Perry, Joshua E., Jeffrey Bishop, Kyle Brothers, and Ayesha Ahmad (2010), "Revisiting CPR/DNR: Have the Policies Outlived Their Utility?," 10 American Journal of Bioethics 61-67.
• Perry, Joshua E. and Kyle L. Galbraith (2009), "Saturday Morning in the Clinic," The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 39, September-October, pp. 24-26.
• Perry, Joshua E., Ilene Moore, Bruce Barry, Ellen Wright Clayton, and Amanda Carrico (2009), "The Ethical Health Lawyer: An Empirical Assessment of Moral Decision Making," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 37, pp. 461-475.
• Perry, Joshua E. (2008), "Thinking Like a Professional," Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 58, pp. 159-165.
• Perry, Joshua E. (2007), "Biopolitics at the Bedside: Proxy Wars and Feeding Tubes," Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol. 28, June, pp. 171-192.
• Perry, Joshua E. (2006), "Biblical BioPolitics:  Judicial Process, Religious Rhetoric, Terri Schiavo and Beyond," Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 553-630.
• Perry, Joshua E., Larry Churchill, and Howard Kirshner (2005), "The Terri Schiavo Case:  Legal, Ethical and Medical Perspectives," Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 143, pp. 744-748. Reprinted in Nancy S. Jecker, Albert R. Jonsen, and Robert A. Pearlman (eds.) (2007), Bioethics: Introduction to History, Methods, and Practice (2nd Edition).