The scholarship of Dean Hashimoto focuses on the interface of law, science and medicine, especially in the areas of health care policy and the role of scientific evidence in the courtroom. Educated as both an attorney and physician, he teaches torts, environmental litigation, health care law, and evidence. He has also studied the internment of citizens and aliens of Japanese heritage in World War II and written about the constitutional law cases decided in that era.

Professor Hashimoto served as a Notes Editor on the Yale Law Journal and, after graduating from law school, as a law clerk to Justice William Brennan of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge David Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. He also practiced as a litigator for the Williams & Connolly law firm in Washington, D.C. and as a health care attorney for Ropes & Gray in Boston before joining the Boston College faculty.

Professor Hashimoto received his postgraduate medical training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a board-certified specialist in occupational and environmental medicine and serves as the chief of this specialty at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

EDUCATION

A.B., Stanford University; M.S., University of California at Berkeley; M.O.H., Harvard University; M.D., University of California at San Francisco; J.D., Yale University.

RECENT ACTIVITIESPresentations: “The Role of the Legal Causation Requirement in Tort Litigation and Regulation Involving Indoor Air Quality Problems,” faculty colloquium, University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO, in March 2006. “Race, Resistance, and Reconciliation: Japanese American Resisters from World War II,” at the Organization of American Historians conference in Boston in March. “Japanese American Internment, Korematsu, and Its Continuing Impact,” at the AG Institute Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General in March 2006. “The Role of Medical Treatment Guidelines in Workers’ Compensation,” as featured speaker at the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents Office of Health Policy in April. "Judging Scientific Evidence at the Cutting Edge," at the Conference for Massachusetts Appellate Judges, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April. "Should the Patients' Bill of Rights Include Affirmative Action?" at the Symposium on Current Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, at Yale Law School, in New Haven, Connecticut, in February 2006.

Activities: As chair of the Health Care Services Board of the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, oversees the quality of care provided for work-related injuries and diseases.

Appointments: Appointed visiting associate professor of law for spring 2006 at Harvard Law School. Member of the Advisory Board on Science and Technology of the Flaschner Judicial Institute, in June.

Promotions: Promoted from medical director to chief of occupational and environmental medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in June.

COURSES

Fall 2011: Torts
Spring 2012: Business Law and Health Care Enterprises

• Interstate Variations in Use of Narcotics. Cambridge, MA: Workers Compensation Research Institute, 2011. (With Dongchun Wang and Kathryn Mueller).
• With Glorian Sorensen et al. "The Role of the Work Context in Multiple Wellness Outcomes for Hospital Patient Care Workers." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 53, no.8 (August 2011): 899-910.
• Interstate Variations in Medical Practice Patterns for Low Back Conditions. Cambridge, MA: Workers Compensation Research Institute, 2008. (With Dongchun Wang, Kathryn Mueller, Sharon Belton and Xiaoping Zho).
• With Najib T. Ayas et al. “Extended Work Duration and the Risk of Self-Reported Percutaneous Injuries in Interns.” JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association 296, no.9 (September 6, 2006): 1055-1062.
• With Michael H. Cohen et al. “Pediatric Use of Complementary Therapies: Ethical and Policy Choices.” Pediatrics 116 (October 2005): e568-e575.
• "The Proposed Patients' Bill of Rights: The Case of the Missing Equal Protection Clause." Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 1 (Spring 2001) (Symposium: Current Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health): 77-94. With Jane L. Freedman, James J. Campbell, Donna Ward. "Workers' Compensation Reform: 180 Days in Massachusetts." Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews 13 (April/June 1998): 381-387.
• With Burton Lee [et al.] "The Prevalence of Pulmonary and Upper Respiratory Tract Symptoms and Spirometric Test Findings Among Newspaper Pressroom Workers Exposed to Solvents." JOEM: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 39 (1997): 960-969.
• "Science as Mythology in Constitutional Law." Oregon Law Review 76 (Spring 1997): 111-153.
• "Defining the Role of Managed Care in Workers' Compensation." Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews 11 (January/February 1996): 101-112.
• "The Future Role of Managed Care and Capitation in Workers' Compensation." American Journal of Law & Medicine 22 (1996): 233-261.
• "The Legacy of Korematsu v. United States: A Dangerous Narrative Retold." UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal 4 (1996): 72-128.
• With Howard Hu and Michael Besser. "Levels of Lead in Blood and Bone of Women Giving Birth in a Boston Hospital." Archives of Environmental Health 51 (January/February1996): 52-58.
• "Casualties of War." Boston College Magazine 53 (Fall 1993): 32-37.
• With T. Brennan, and D. Christiani. "Should Asbestos in Buildings Be Regulated on an Environmental or Occupational Basis?" Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 643 (December 1991): 609-613.
• "Justice Brennan's Use of Scientific and Empirical Evidence in Constitutional and Administrative Law." Boston College Law Review 32 (July 1991): 739-756.
• "A Tribute to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.: His Use of Scientific Evidence in Constitutional Adjudication." Washburn Law Journal 30 (1991): 191-196.
• With K. Kelsey, T. Seitz, H. Feldman, B. Yakes, and D. Christiani. "The Presence of Urinary Cellular Sediment and Albuminuria in Newspaper Pressworkers Exposed to Solvents." JOM: Journal of Occupational Medicine 33 (1991): 516-526.
• With K. Kelsey, T. Seitz, H. Feldman, B. Yakes, and D. Christiani. "Occupational Skin Disease in Newspaper Pressroom Workers." JOM: Journal of Occupational Medicine 33 (1991): 711-717.
• With Mark A. Haddad. "Professor Katz's Study of Human Relationships." Law, Medicine, and Health Care 16 (Winter 1988): 160-166.
• "A Structural Analysis of the Physician-Patient Relationship in No-Code Decisionmaking." Yale Law Journal 93 (December 1983) 362-383.