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George
W. Conk 
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Certified Civil Trial Attorney
- certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey
- Appellate lawyer
- winning groundbreaking cases in the Supreme Court of the United
States and the New Jersey Supreme Court for workers, patients, and
consumers
- Teacher
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- Fordham
Law School Since 2002 - teaching first year torts, product liability, professional responsibility and remedies
- Seton Hall Law School
1995 - 2001 teaching products liability, scientific evidence,
torts, and intellectual property
- Leading Scholar
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- Articles on torts and product
liability law have been published in the Yale Law Journal, the
UCLA Law Review, Penn State Law Review SSRN,the Seton Hall Law Review, the Fordham International Law Journal SSRN and others. SSRN author page
- Copyright law taught at Fordham, Seton Hall, and East China University of Politics & law - School of Intellectual Property, and Fordham Annual International Intellectual Property Conference
- Elected member, American
Law Institute
- J.W. Fulbright Foreign
Scholarship Board, U.S. Department of State, Senior Specialist grants
(2004-2005)
- Huazhong (Central
China) University of Science and Technology, School of Law,
Wuhan, China - Visiting Scholar
- Peking University
School of Law - Lecturer;
- Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences, Institute of Law - Consultant regarding
P.R.C. Draft Civil Code - Tort Liability
- East China University of Politics & Law, School of Intellectual Property, visiting professor
- Translation of and critical essay about the discussion draft of the Chinese civil code section on torts widely relied on by those interested in the development of Chinese law - published by the Peking University Press and Fordham International Law Journal SSRN
- Leading Critic of irresponsible actions by pharmaceutical companies -
- Relied upon by courts like the Nebraska Supreme Court which held that drug companies should bear the same responsibility as others when their actions lack requisite care for patient safety Freeman V HOFFMAN-LaROCHE
- Testified before US Senate on tort liability and bio-terror preparedness
July 7, 2005 Hearing Transcript and Submitted Testimony
- Cited in the Washington Post for his leadership in calling for corporate responsibility for dangerous drugs and vaccines
- One of the first to call for restructuring of the FDA in response to the experience of Vioxx™, the Merck anti-inflammatory drug that showed no substantial superiority over over-the-counter pain relievers like naproxen but did cause a substantial increase in heart attacks and strokes.
National Law Journal 9/26/05
- of counsel to Weitz & Luxenberg (New York) and to the Lanier Law Firm (Houston), co-authoring briefs defending the $15 million dollar verdict and consumer fraud findings against Merck won in jury trials in the SuperiorCourt of New Jersey in the cases of Thomas Cona and John McDarby - victories which helped bring Merck to the bargaining table and make a $4.85 billion dollar offer to settle the 26,00 pending cases by victims alleging they suffered injury due to Vioxx™
- Delivered the Raynes McCarty Annual Health Law Lecture at the Union league, Philadelphia, and Wilmington Delaware sponsored by the Health Law Institute at Widener Law School
Published as "Will the post 9/11 world be a post tort world?" in the
Penn State Law Review calling for a post-FDA approval duty of systematic active study and surveillance of product safety for the entire life cycle of drugs and medical devices
- Presented at the University of Texas, The Review of Litigation
2007 Symposium on the10th anniversary of the Restatement of the Law on Products Liability
Published as Punctuated Equilibrium: Why §402A Flourished and the Products Liability Restatement Languished
- Award Winner -
- A.B. College of the Holy
Cross
- M.A. Boston University
- J.D. Rutgers Law School
- Newark
- Resume/Curriculum Vitae
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