Professor of Law Emeritus and Justice Nathan L. Jacobs Scholar.
(Legal Aspects of Death and Dying.) Professor
Cantor taught at Rutgers School of Law-Newark in the fields of constitutional law, labor law, contracts, and bioethics. He started at the law school in 1970 and became a professor emeritus in July 2005. He has been widely published in legal and medical journals on the topic of the legal handling of
dying medical patients. His three books are: Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled (2005), Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity (1993), and Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying (1986). Professor Cantor is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University and a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia Law School, where he served as notes and comments editor of the Columbia Law Review. He has served as a visiting professor at Columbia
University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University. He currently divides his time between Rutgers-Newark and Tel Aviv, working on a book about law's relation to the human cadaver.
