Richard M. Weinmeyer

Assistant Professor of Law

Richard (“Rick”) Weinmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Law and a faculty member of the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy. Dr. Weinmeyer’s research interests are in the fields of public health law, health law, bioethics, and research methods. His specific research seeks to understand how law and policy can be used to solve fundamental, neglected issues in public health, including sanitation, infectious disease prevention and treatment, access to health care, stigma, and dignitary harms.

Prior to joining Loyola, Dr. Weinmeyer was a Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property at DePaul University’s College of Law. There he taught courses on public health law, food and drug law, and bioethics and the law. Dr. Weinmeyer also spent four years at the American Medical Association where he worked with the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs and conducted research on legal and ethical issues in medicine and public health. Before pursuing his doctorate and law degree, he oversaw National Institutes of Health-supported HIV/STI social and behavioral research grants at the University of Minnesota’s Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Dr. Weinmeyer completed his Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Public Health at Northwestern University and received his J.D. and M.A. in Bioethics from the University of Minnesota. He also holds an M.Phil. from Cambridge University. His research has been published or is forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the St. Louis University Journal of Health Law and Policy, Health and Place, and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, among others. In 2025, Dr. Weinmeyer was named a Health Law Scholar, sponsored by the St. Louis University School of Law’s Center for Health Law Studies and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University
M.A., University of Minnesota
J.D., University of Minnesota Law School
M.Phil., Cambridge University
B.A., University of Washington

Courses Taught

Torts
Health Law: Patients and Populations
Public Health Law