Chester A. Myers Professor of Law
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty

Nicolas Terry is an internationally recognized scholar on health law, specifically, eHealth. His research interest lies primarily at the intersection of medicine, law and technology. Recent scholarship has concentrated on technologically-mediated health care (including telemedicine), privacy of medical information and the use of technology to reduce medical error.

“What I enjoy about health law is its breadth and dynamism,” Professor Terry says. “Both teaching and practice involve diverse and always fascinating issues. In fact, it’s difficult to identify a legal discipline that is not well represented in health law.”

Educated at Kingston University and the University of Cambridge, Terry began his academic career as a member of the law faculty of the University of Exeter in England. He joined Saint Louis University School of Law in 1980, where he has taught torts, products liability, health care law, eHealth, Internet law and insurance law. Professor Terry has been a visiting professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law and Washington University School of Law. During the 1996-97 academic year, he was on leave from the law school and served as Director of Legal Education for LEXIS-NEXIS. He is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and holds the secondary appointment of Professor of Health Management & Policy at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health.

In 2000, Terry was named co-director of the Center for Health Law Studies — consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the finest health law program in the nation. The Center boasts a large full-time faculty of health law experts, thriving J.D. certificate, LL.M. and dual degree programs, and publishes the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy.

“We are uniquely situated,” says Terry. “St. Louis is one of the great medical centers in the United States. We have two nationally recognized teaching hospitals, thriving research centers and a robust health law practice. This allows us to not only enrich our scholarship but to provide our students with unparalleled practical experience during their studies.”