Thaddeus Mason Pope

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This page organizes my over 225 publications by type of publication  Other pages organize these publications by dateand by topic area.
  1. Law Review & Bar Journal Articles
  2. Medical & Bioethics Journal Articles
  3. Books & Book Chapters
  4. Blogs & Blawgs
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  6. Amicus Briefs & Testimony
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1. Law Review & Bar Journal Articles

 

Forthcoming & In-Progress 

 

Review of Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death, JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE (forthcoming 2015). 

Texas Advance Directives Act: Nearly a Model Dispute Resolution Mechanism for Intractable Medical Futility Conflicts, (expanded version under revision for publication in US law review).

Intractable Medical Futility Conflict: Comparing Three Models of Dispute Resolution: Queensland, Ontario, and Texas (in progress) (with Paula Chidwick, Robert Sibbald, Ben White, and Lindy Willmott).

Definition and Defense of Hard Paternalism: A Conceptual and Normative Analysis of the Restriction of Substantially Autonomous Self-Regarding Conduct, Chapter Five - A New Normative Defense of Hard Paternalism (under revision for publication, over 120 downloads and citations). SSRN link
 
2016

Texas Advance Directives Act: Nearly a Model Dispute Resolution Mechanism for Intractable Medical Futility Conflicts, 16(1) QUT LAW REVIEW 22-53 (2016).


2015

Health Care Reform Implementation in Minnesota: Mission Advanced But Not Accomplished: An Introduction to the Symposium, 38 HAMLINE LAW REVIEW 161-176 (2015).

2014

Limiting Liberty to Prevent Obesity: Justifiability of Strong Hard Paternalism in Public Health Regulation, 46 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 1859-1876 (2014).

The Growing Power of Healthcare Ethics Committees Heightens Due Process Concerns, 15(2) CARDOZO JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION 425-447 (2014).

Dispute Resolution Mechanisms for Intractable Medical Futility Disputes, 58 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL LAW REVIEW 347-368 (2014).
POLST Legislative Guide (Feb. 2014) (with Legislative Working Group of the National POLST Paradigm Task Force).
 
2013

Clinicians May Not Administer Life-Sustaining Treatment without Consent: Civil, Criminal, and Disciplinary Sanctions, 9 JOURNAL OF HEALTH & BIOMEDICAL LAW 213-296 (2013).

Legal, Medical, and Ethical Issues in Minnesota End-of-Life Care, 36(2) HAMLINE LAW REVIEW 139-150 (2013).

Lessons from Tragedy - Part Two, 19 WIDENER LAW REVIEW 239-258 (2013). 


2012
 
Physicians and Safe Harbor Legal Immunity, 21(2) ANNALS OF HEALTH LAW 121-135 (2012).  SSRN link

Career Guide for the Future Healthcare Attorney, 4(1) WIDENER HEALTH LAW COLLOQUIUM 2-7 (Fall 2012).

The Government's Duty to Preserve in False Claims Act Litigation, American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) HEALTHCARE LIABILITY & LITIGATION PRACTICE HEALTH BRIEFS E-NEWSLETTER (Oct. 2012).

 
2011
 
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Legal Treatment Option at the End of Life, 17(2) WIDENER LAW REVIEW 363-428 (2011) (with Lindsey Anderson), reprinted in NINA A. KOHN, ELDER LAW: PRACTICE, POLICY & PROBLEMS 540-543 (Wolters Kluwer 2014), and cited in Bentley v. Maplewood Seniors Care Society, 2014 BCSC 165.  SSRN link
 
Caring for the Seriously Ill: Cost and Public Policy, 39(2) J. L. MED. & ETHICS 111-113 (2011) (with Robert M. Arnold and Amber E. Barnato).  Journal link
 
Guest Editor of a Special Symposium: Caring for the Seriously Ill: Cost and Public Policy, 39(2) J. L. MED. & ETHICS 111-234 (2011) (with Robert M. Arnold and Amber E. Barnato).
 
Comparing the FHCDA to Surrogate Decision Making Laws in Other States, 16(1) NYSBA HEALTH L.J. 107-111 (April 2011).  SSRN link           
 
Foreword:  Symposium: Health Law and the Elderly: Managing Risk at the End of Life, 17(2) WIDENER L. REV. i-vii (2011). 
 
 
2010
 
Surrogate Selection: An Increasingly Viable, but Limited, Solution to Intractable Futility Disputes, 3 ST. LOUIS U. J. HEALTH L. & POL’Y 183-252 (2010).  SSRN link 
 
The Topography and Geography of U.S. Health Care Regulation, 38(2) J. L. MED. & ETHICS 427-432 (2010).  SSRN link
 
 
2009
 
2008-2009 National Health Law Moot Court Competition, 30 J. LEG. MED. 443-466 (2009).  SSRN link 
 
A Conversation About End-of-Life Decisionmaking, 14(2) NYSBA HEALTH L.J. 91-107 (Fall 2009) (with Nancy Dubler, Alicia Ouellette, Timothy Quill, Robert Swidler).  SSRN link 
 
Multi-Institutional Healthcare Ethics Committees: the Procedurally Fair Internal Dispute Resolution Mechanism, 31 CAMPBELL L. REV. 257-331 (2009).  SSRN link 
 
 
2008
 
Involuntary Passive Euthanasia in U.S. Courts: Reassessing the Judicial Treatment of Medical Futility Cases, 9 MARQUETTE ELDER’S ADVISOR 229-68 (2008), reprinted in MEDICAL TREATMENT AND THE LAW 104-45 (Asifa Begum ed. Amicus Books, Icfai University Press 2010).  SSRN link 
 
EMTALA: Its Application to Newborn Infants, 4 ABA HEALTH ESOURCE No. 7 (Mar. 2008).  SSRN link 
 
 
2007
 
Medical Futility Statutes: No Safe Harbor to Unilaterally Stop Life-Sustaining Treatment, 75 TENN. L. REV. 1-81 (2007), reprinted in JANET L. DOLGIN & LOIS L. SHEPHERD, BIOETHICS AND THE LAW 796-98 (2d ed. Aspen 2009).  SSRN link 
 
Mediation at the End-of-Life: Getting Beyond the Limits of the Talking Cure, 23 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL. 143-94 (2007) (with Ellen Waldman).  SSRN link 
 
Rethinking Medical Liability: A Challenge to Defense Lawyers, Trial Lawyers, and Medical Providers: An Introduction to the Symposium, 37 U. MEM. L. REV. 455-58 (2007). 
 
 
2005
 
Monstrous Impersonation: A Critique of Consent-Based Justifications for Hard Paternalism, 73 UMKC L. REV. 681-713 (2005).  SSRN link 
 
Is Public Health Paternalism Really Never Justified? A Response to Joel Feinberg, 30 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 121-207 (2005).  SSRN link 
 
 
1999-2004
 
Counting the Dragon’s Teeth and Claws: The Definition of Hard Paternalism, 20 GA. ST. U. L. REV. 659-722 (2004).  SSRN link 
 
Balancing Public Health against Individual Liberty: The Ethics of Smoking Regulations, 61 U. PITT. L. REV. 419-98 (2000).  SSRN link 
 
The Maladaptation of Miranda to Advance Directives: A Critique of the Implementation of the Patient Self Determination Act, 9 HEALTH MATRIX 139-202 (1999).  SSRN link

 


The Topography and Geography of U.S. Health Care Regulation, 38(2) J. L. MED. & ETHICS 427-432 (2010).
Surrogate Selection: An Increasingly Viable Solution to Intractable Futility Disputes, 3 ST. LOUIS J. HEALTH L. & POL'Y (forthcoming 2010)
2008-2009 National Health Law Moot Court Competition Problem, 30(4) J. LEG. MED. 443-466 (2009)
A Conversation About End-of-Life Decisionmaking, 14(2) NYSBA HEALTH L.J. 91-107 (Fall 2009)
Multi-Institutional Healthcare Ethics Committees: the Procedurally Fair Internal Dispute Resolution Mechanism, 31 CAMPBELL L. REV. 257-331 (2009)
Involuntary Passive Euthanasia in U.S. Courts: Reassessing the Judicial Treatment of Medical Futility Cases, 9 MARQ. ELDER’S ADVISOR 229-68 (2008)
EMTALA: Its Application to Newborn Infants, 4 ABA HEALTH eSOURCE No. 7 (Mar. 2008)
Medical Futility Statutes: No Safe Harbor to Unilaterally Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment, 75 TENN. L. REV. 1-81 (2007)
Mediation at the End-of-Life: Getting Beyond the Limits of the Talking Cure, 23 OHIO ST. J. DISP. RESOL. 143-94 (2007) (with Ellen Waldman)
Rethinking Medical Liability: A Challenge to Defense Lawyers, Trial Lawyers,and Medical Providers, 37 U. MEM. L. REV. 455-58 (2007).
Monstrous Impersonation: A Critique of Consent-Based Justifications for Hard Paternalism, 73 UMKC L. REV. 681-713 (2005)
Is Public Health Paternalism Really Never Justified? A Response to Joel Feinberg, 30 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 121-207 (2005)
Counting the Dragon's Teeth and Claws: The Definition of Hard Paternalism, 20 GA. ST. U. L. REV. 659-722 (2004)
Balancing Public Health Against Individual Liberty: The Ethics of Smoking Regulations, 61 U. PITT. L. REV. 419-98 (2000)
The Maladaptation of Miranda to Advance Directives: A Critique of the Implementation of the Patient Self Determination Act, 9 HEALTH MATRIX 139-202 (1999)
2. Medical & Bioethics Journal Articles
 
Forthcoming & In-Progress
 
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN BIOETHICS (forthcoming 2016) (symposium editor).

2015

The Texas Advance Directives Act: Must a Death Panel Be a Star Chamber? 15 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 42-44 (2015).

Brain Death: Legal Duties to Accommodate Religious Objections, 148(2) CHEST e69 (2015).

Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid-in-Dying, 18 JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE (2015) (with David Orentlicher & Ben Rich).

Patient Rights in the ICU, in OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF CRITICAL CARE ch. 26, 113-116 (Webb, Angus, Finfer, Gattioni & Singer eds., Oxford University Press 2016) (with Douglas B. White).

Prospective Autonomy and Dementia: Ulysses Contracts for VSED, 12(3) JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY (2015).

Legal Briefing: Adult Orphans and the Unbefriended: Making Medical Decisions for Unrepresented Patients without Surrogates, 26(2) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 180-188 (2015).

Statement on Futility and Goal Conflict in End-of-Life Care in ICU Medicine 191(11) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY & CRITICAL CARE 1318-1330 (2015) (with ATS Ethics Committee and other external content experts).

Brain Death: Legal Obligations and the Courts, 35(2) SEMINARS IN CLINICAL NEUROLOGY: THE CLINICAL PRACTICE OF BRAIN DEATH DETERMINATION 174-179 (2015) (with Christopher M. Burkle).

An Official American Thoracic Society Policy Statement: Managing Conscientious Objection in Intensive Care Medicine, 191(2) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE 219-227 (2015) (with Mithya Lewis-Newby, Mark Wiccalir, ATS Ethics Committee & other external content experts).

Legal Briefing: Coerced Treatment and Involuntary Confinement for Contagious Disease, 26(1) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 73-83 (2015) (with Heather Bughman).


2014

Legal Briefing: Brain Death and Total Brain Failure, 25(3) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 245-257 (2014).

Legal Briefing: Informed Consent in the Clinical Context, 25(2) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 152-174 (2014) (with Melinda Hexum).

The Changing Legal Climate for Physician Aid-in-Dying, 311(11) JAMA 1107-08 (2014) (with David Orentlicher and Ben A. Rich).

Legal Briefing: Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, 25(1) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 68-80 (2014) (with Amanda West).


2013

Making Medical Decisions for Patients without Surrogates, 369(21) NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 1976-1978 (2013).

Legal Briefing: Home Birth and Midwifery, 24(3) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 293-308 (2013) (with Deborah Fisch).

Judicial Responsibility to Decide Bioethics Cases, 10(4) JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY 441-444 (Dec. 2013).

Advance Care Planning for End-Stage Kidney Disease (Protocol). COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS 2013, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD010687. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010687 (with A. Effiong, L. Shinn & J.A. Raho)

Legal Briefing: The New Patient Self Determination Act, 24(2) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 156-167 (2013).

Legal Briefing: Shared Decision Making and Patient Decision Aids, 24(1) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 70-80 (2013) (with Mindy Hexum).


2012
 
Legal Briefing: POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), 23(4) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 353-376 (2012) (with Mindy Hexum).

Facebook Can Improve Surrogate Decision Making, 12(10) AM. J. BIOETHICS 43-45 (2012).

The Courts, Futility, and the Ends of Medicine, 307(2) JAMA 151-152 (2012) (with Douglas B. White). 
 
Review of Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker, Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment, 12(1) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 49-51 (2012).
 
Responding to Requests for Non-Beneficial Treatment, 5(1) MD-ADVISOR: A JOURNAL FOR THE NEW JERSEY MEDICAL COMMUNITY (Winter 2012) at 12-17. 
 
Legal Briefing: The Unbefriended: Making Healthcare Decisions for Patients without Proxies (Part 1), 23(1) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 84-96 (2012) (with Tanya Sellers).

Legal Briefing: The Unbefriended: Making Healthcare Decisions for Patients without Proxies (Part 2), 23(2) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 177-192 (2012) (with Tanya Sellers).
 
Legal Fundamentals of Surrogate Decision Making, 141(4) CHEST 1074-1081 (2012) (5th in series:  Intersection of Law and Medicine). 
 
 
2011
 
Legal Briefing: Medically Futile and Non-Beneficial Treatment, 22(3) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 277-296 (Fall 2011).
 
The Best Interest Standard: Both Guide and Limit to Medical Decision Making on Behalf of Incapacitated Patients, 22(2) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 134-38 (2011).
 
Medical Futility and Maryland Law, MID-ATLANTIC ETHICS COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER, at 1-3 (Winter 2011).
 
Legal Briefing: Healthcare Ethics Committees, 22(1) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 74-93 (2011).  Journal link
 
Resolving Medical Futility Disputes, 36(2) DNA REPORTER [Delaware Nurses Association], at 5-6 (May/June/July 2011) (with Donna Casey).   Journal link
 
Conscientious Objection, 17 LAHEY CLINIC MED. ETHICS J. 6-7 (Winter 2011).  Journal link
 
Law's Impact on the Resolution of End-of-Life Conflicts in the ICU, 39 CRITICAL CARE MED. 223-224 (2011). Journal link
 
 
2010
 
Legal Briefing: Crisis Standards of Care, 21(4) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 358-367 (2010) (with Mitchell Palazzo).  Journal link
 
MOLST: A Cure for the Common Advance Directive, 35(4) DNA REPORTER [Delaware Nurse's Association], at 6 (Nov.-Dec. 2010) (with Monyeen Klopfenstein).  Journal link
 
Legal Briefing: Organ Donation, 21(3) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 243-263 (2010).  Journal link
 
Legal Briefing: Conscience Clauses and Conscientious Refusal, 21(2) J. CLINICAL  ETHICS 163-180 (2010).  Journal link
 
The Case of Samuel Golubchuk: The Dangers of Judicial Deference and Medical  Self-Regulation, 10(3) AM. J. BIOETHICS 59-61 (Mar. 2010).  Journal link
 
Legal Briefing: Informed Consent, 21(1) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 72-82 (2010).  Journal link
 
Legal Update, 21(1) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 83-85 (2010).  Journal link
 
Restricting CPR to Patients Who Provide Informed Consent Will Not Permit  Physicians to Unilaterally Refuse Requested CPR, 10(1) AM. J. BIOETHICS 82-83  (Jan. 2010).  Journal link
 
Resolving Conflicts with Surrogate Decision Makers, 137(1) CHEST 238-39  (2010).  Journal link
 
 
2009
 
Legal Briefing: Advance Care Planning, 20(4) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 289-296 (2009).  Journal link
 
Legal Briefing: Medical Futility and Assisted Suicide, 20(3) J. CLINICAL ETHICS  274-86 (2009).  Journal link
 
Legal Update, 20(3) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 287-88 (2009).  Journal link
 
Controversies Abound in End-of-Life Decisions, 18(5) AM. J. CRITICAL CARE 400 (2009).  Journal link
 
The Pure Process Procedural Approach to Medical Futility, J. MED. ETHICS  eLetter June 10, 2009 (comment on S Moratti, The Development of "Medical  Futility": Towards a Procedural Approach Based on the Role of the Medical  Profession, 35 J. MED. ETHICS 369 (2009)).
 
 
2008
 
DNAR as Default Status: Desirable in Principle, Difficult in Practice, 17 AM. J. CRITICAL CARE 404 (2008).  Journal link
 
Multi-Institutional Hospital Ethics Committees: For Rural Hospitals, and Urban  Ones Too, 8(4) AM. J. BIOETHICS 69-71 (April 2008).  Journal link
 
The Language of Living Wills, 178 CANADIAN MED. ASS’N J. 1324 (2008).  Journal link
 
Futility: The Limits of Mediation, 132 CHEST 888-89 (2008) (with Ellen Waldman).  Journal link
 
 
2007
 
Philosopher’s Corner: Medical Futility, 15 MID-ATLANTIC ETHICS COMMITTEE  NEWSLETTER, Fall 2007, at 6-7.  Journal link
 
 
2002
 
From Theoretical Foundations and Methods to Practical Applications: My  Bioethics Education at Georgetown, 2 AM. J. BIOETHICS No. 4, at 36-37 (2002).  Journal link

Legal Briefing: Healthcare Ethics Committees (2011)
Medical Futility and Maryland Law, MID-ATLANTIC ETHICS COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER, at 1-3 (Winter 2011).
DNAR as Default Status: Desirable in Principle, Difficult in Practice, 17 AM. J. CRITICAL CARE 404 (2008)
Multi-Institutional Hospital Ethics Committees: For Rural Hospitals, and Urban Ones Too, 8(4) AM. J. BIOETHICS 69-71 (April 2008).
Futility: The Limits of Mediation, 132 CHEST 888-89 (Oct. 2008) (with Ellen Waldman)
The Language of Living Wills, 178 CAN. MED. ASSN. J. 1324 (2008)
Medical Futility, 15 MID-ATLANTIC ETHICS COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER, Fall 2007, at 6-7.
My Bioethics Education at Georgetown, 2(4) AM. J. BIOETHICS 36-37 (2002)
3. Books & Book Chapters
 
Forthcoming and In-progress

THE RIGHT TO DIE: THE LAW OF END-OF-LIFE DECISIONMAKING (3rd ed. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business) (with Alan Meisel & Kathy L. Cerminara) (2016 supplement).

Brain Death Rejected: Expanding Legal Duties to Accommodate Religious Objections and Continue Physiological Support, 2015 Annual Conference Law, Religion, and American Healthcare, PETRIE-FLOM CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND BIOETHICS, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL (May 2015) (chapter for conference volume).

Law of Informed Consent, in SHARED DECISION MAKING IN HEALTH CARE (3rd ed., Glyn Elwyn ed. Oxford University Press forthcoming 2015) (with Ben Moulton).

2015

Medical Futility, in OXFORD HANDBOOK ON DEATH AND DYING (Stuart Younger & Robert Arnold eds., Oxford University Press 2015) (with Douglas B. White).

Patient Rights in the ICU, in OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF CRITICAL CARE ch.26 (Webb, Angus, Finfer, Gattioni & Singer eds., Oxford University Press 2015) (with Douglas B. White).

THE RIGHT TO DIE: THE LAW OF END-OF-LIFE DECISIONMAKING (3rd ed. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business) (with Alan Meisel & Kathy L. Cerminara) (2015 supplement).


2014

Death Penalty, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOETHICS (4th ed., Jennings ed., Macmillan Reference 2014).

Quality of Life in Legal Perspective, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOETHICS (4th ed., Jennings ed., Macmillan Reference 2014).


2012
 
Medical Futility, in GUIDANCE FOR HEALTHCARE ETHICS COMMITTEES ch.13  (Micah D. Hester & Toby Schonfeld eds., Cambridge University Press 2012). 
 
 
2011
 
The Slow Transition of U.S. Law toward a Greater Emphasis on Prevention, in PREVENTION VS. TREATMENT: WHAT'S THE RIGHT BALANCE? 219-244 (Halley S. Faust & Paul T. Menzel eds., Oxford University Press 2011).
 
 
2010
 
Involuntary Passive Euthanasia in U.S. Courts: Reassessing the Judicial Treatment of Medical Futility Cases, in MEDICAL TREATMENT AND THE LAW 104-45 (Asifa Begum ed. Amicus Books, Icfai University Press 2010).
 
 
2009
 
Foreword to STANLEY A. TERMAN, PEACEFUL TRANSITIONS: AN IRONCLAD STRATEGY TO DIE HOW AND WHEN YOU WANT vi-vii (Life Transitions Pub. 2009). 
 
Medical Futility Statutes: Can/Ought They Be Resuscitated? in THE MANY WAYS WE TALK ABOUT DEATH IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: INTERDISCIPLINARYSTUDIES IN PORTRAYAL AND CLASSIFICATION ch.18 (Margaret Souza & ChristinaStaudt eds., Edwin Mellen Press 2009).
 
 
2003
 
Social Contract Theory, Slavery, and the Antebellum Courts, in A COMPANION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY 125-33 (Tommy Lott & John Pittman eds., Blackwell 2003) (paperback 2006) (with Anita L. Allen).
 
A DEFINITION AND DEFENSE OF HARD PATERNALISM: A CONCEPTUAL AND NORMATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RESTRICTION OF SUBSTANTIALLY AUTONOMOUS SELF-REGARDING BEHAVIOR (Georgetown University doctoral dissertation 2003).
 
 
1996
 
Legal Issues (The Right to Privacy and Lawsuits), in AIRLINE PASSENGER SECURITY: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES 34-43 (National Academy of Sciences 1996) (with Paul F. Rothstein).     
    

Social Contract Theory, Slavery, and the Antebellum Courts, in A COMPANION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY 125-33 (Tommy Lott & John Pittman eds., Blackwell 2003) (paperback 2006) (with Anita L. Allen)
Legal Issues (The Right to Privacy and Lawsuits), in AIRLINE PASSENGER SECURITY:NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES 34-43 (National Academy of Sciences 1996) (with Paul F. Rothstein).
4. Blogs & Blawgs
Medical Futility Blog

Since 2007, I have published thousands of posts to my Medical Futility Blog.  These have been cited in academic and other publications.  The content is republished by Westlaw and other distributors. And the original site has itself received more than one milion pageviews.  In 2013, the American Bar Association Journal recognized my Medical Futility Blog in its 7th Annual Blawg 100.

American Journal of Bioethics

Since 2012, I have been part of a small group of contributors invited to publish original content at Bioethics.net, the blog of the high impact factor American Journal of Bioethics.  My posts here have been substantial multi-page arguments.  These have included:
  • • Brain Death Is a Flash Point in End-of-Life Law, Ethics and Policy (August 27, 2014).
  • New York Medical Futility Bill Highlights Wide Variation in U.S. End-of-Life Decisions Law (May 5, 2014).
  • Death Panels: Can We Handle the Truth? (March 17, 2014).
  • Top 10 North American Death Panels  (Dec. 16, 2013).
  • Cuthbertson v. Rasouli: Limited Guidance from the Supreme Court of Canada  (Nov. 25, 2013).
  • Stop Therapeutic Obstinacy: Penalties for Administering Futile ICU Interventions  (Sept. 18, 2013).
  • Dangerous Catholic Attack on POLST  (July 19, 2013).
  • Defending Disability Discrimination  (May 31, 2013). 

Health Paternalism

In 2013, I began a new blog, Health Paternalism.  This blog focuses on the tradeoffs between individual liberty and the promotion of the health of the community.


5. Newspapers & Newsletters
Advance Care Planning, MINNESOTA HEALTH CARE NEWS 26-29 (Nov. 2015).

Oregon Shows That Assisted Suicide Can Work Sensibly and Fairly, NEW YORK TIMES (Oct. 7, 2014).

Pregnant and Dead in Texas: A Bad Law, Badly Interpreted, LOS ANGELES TIMES (Jan. 16, 2014) (with Athur L. Caplan).

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Advance Care Planning, MINNESOTA HEALTHCARE NEWS (Nov. 2015)
Pregnant and Dead in Texas: A Bad Law, BadlyInterpreted, LOS ANGELES TIMES (Jan. 16. 2014)
AALS Law, Medicine & Healthcare Section - 2013 Newsletter
Hamline HLI - Highlights 2013
End-of-Life Care: A Lack of Planning Complicates Matters, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE (Jan. 25, 2011)
Choosing the Right Medical Treatment at the End of Life, USM News (Jan. 2011)
Law Probably Won't Provide Safe Harbor to Hospitals, PATRIOT NEWS [Harrisburg, PA], Dec. 24, 2006
Bartender Wrong to Refuse Service, LAS VEGAS SUN, Mar. 15, 2000.
It's Not About Smokers' Choices, WASH. POST, Apr. 15, 1999, at A30.
Nevada Court Abandoned Its Duty in Death Case: Allowing Execution Runs Counter to an International Treaty We Signed, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, Aug. 30, 1998
6. Amicus Briefs & Agency Testimony
Testimony on the Patient and Family Treatment Choice Rights Act of 2011, H.B. 3520, Human Services Committee, TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Austin, Texas (April 12, 2011).
Amicus Brief: Betancourt v. Trinitas Hospital (N.J. A.D. 2009)
Testimony: President's Council on Bioethics (Sept. 2008)
Amicus Brief, Serono, Inc. v. Dept of Health Services, No. B170828 (Cal. App. Feb. 4, 2005),
7. Research in Progress

Consent continues to be a theme in my ongoing scholarship. My current projects examine when consent can be overriden in the contexts of (i) bioethics, (ii) torts, and (iii) public health law.

1. Medical Futility: Overriding Consent at the End-of-Life.  Normally, individuals or their surrogates decide whether or not to withdraw life-sustaining medical treatment (LSMT). But, increasingly, health care providers are refusing to comply with requests to continue LSMT where they consider such requests to be "medically inappropriate." My research on medical futility analyzes the legal bases for and limits on providers making such unilateral decisions.

2. Assumption of Risk: Overriding Consent in Tort Law.  Individuals also normally decide whether or not to confront everyday health risks like eating a Big Mac. But, increasingly, the law is restricting their ability to make such (bad) choices. Where individuals knowingly and voluntarily confront the risks, ought their liberty be limitated? Is this an appropriate role for public health law? Is it an appropriate role for tort law?

3. Conditions for Justified Hard Paternalism.  While hard paternalism is the only plausible liberty limiting principle underlying much public health law, few theorists have defended justificatory conditions for hard paternalism.  In this piece I identify and defend seven necessary and sufficient conditions for justified hard public health paternalism.


1. Hospital Ethics Committees as a Forum of Last Resort under The Texas Advance Directives Act: A Violation of Procedural Due Process
2. DRAFT -- A New Normative Defense of Hard Paternalism
3. ABSTRACT -- Reuniting Human Rights and Bioethics to Address Medical Futility and End-of-Life Treatment
4. ABSTRACT -- Divergent Approaches to Medical Futility Disputes: Comparing Great Britain and Australia with Canada and the United States
5. ABSTRACT -- Medical Futility Statutes: Can They Be Resuscitated?
6. ABSTRACT -- Medical Futility Litigation
7. ABSTRACT -- The Limitations of Tort Law as a Public Health Tool: A Defense of the Assumption of Risk Doctrine
8. ABSTRACT -- The Retreat from Autonomy: Implications for the Justifiability of Prescription Drug Laws