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Carl Schneider
A thoughtful legal scholar and bioethicist, he wrote clearly about medicine, ethics, family law, and the limits of regulation. His work is known for bringing real human experience into debates that can otherwise feel abstract.
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Carl E. Schneider was an American lawyer and bioethicist who served as the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and also held an appointment in its Medical School. His teaching and scholarship ranged across law and medicine, research regulation, family law, and professional ethics.
He wrote and edited books including The Censor's Hand, Law at the End of Life, and, with Omri Ben-Shahar, More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure. Readers and colleagues remembered him as a scholar who questioned easy assumptions and pushed legal and ethical debates toward the realities of how people actually live and choose.
According to the University of Michigan Law School, he died on May 6, 2023, at age 75. His legacy joins wide-ranging academic work with a practical, humane approach that still feels relevant to readers interested in law, medicine, and public life.