Rate My Professor Paul Arshagouni

Paul Arshagouni serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law at Western State College of Law at Westcliff University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984, a Doctor of Medicine from the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine in 1988, a Master of Public Health from UCLA in 1992, and a Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law in 1999. Before pursuing law, Arshagouni worked as a pediatrician and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine. During this time, he also directed pediatrics at a community clinic in north Orange County, California.

Arshagouni transitioned into legal practice as an associate in health care practice groups at Sidley Austin and Foley & Lardner in Los Angeles. He entered legal academia in 2002 as an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Houston Law Center’s Health Law & Policy Institute. He later taught at Michigan State University College of Law, where he offered health law courses alongside first-year Contracts and Property; at California Western School of Law; and at Whittier School of Law. At Western State College of Law, his teaching includes Contracts I and II, Property I and II, and Health Law. His areas of expertise are Contract Law and Health Care Law, and he integrates his medical background into research and teaching on healthcare-law intersections. Key publications include “But I'm an Adult Now . . . Sort Of”: Adolescent Consent in Health Care Decision-Making and the Adolescent Brain, 9 Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 315 (2006); Be Fruitful and Multiply, By Other Means, If Necessary: The Time Has Come to Recognize and Enforce Gestational Surrogacy Agreements, 61 DePaul Law Review 783 (2012); and An Introduction to Medical Issues Posed by International Health Threats in a Legal Framework, 12 Michigan State Journal of International Law 199 (2004).