Micah Berman teaches courses on public health law, health care law, and tobacco regulation, and he is a co-author of a recent public health law textbook, The New Public Health Law: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy (Oxford University Press).

His current research, funded by the National Cancer Institute, seeks to support the FDA’s regulation of tobacco, and he is a member of Ohio State’s federally-funded Center of Excellence in Regulatory Tobacco Science. Before joining Ohio State’s faculty in 2013, Berman directed policy centers that provided legal and policy support to state and local health departments in Ohio, New York, and Vermont. He has also served as a senior advisor to the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products and as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.

He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Brandeis University and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.