New: "Difficulties in Honoring Patient Requests for Hospice when Relying on Surrogate Decision-Makers: A Case Study" by Leigh Meyer, Ellen C Meltzer, et al., discusses "how to proceed with decision-making, both ethically and legally, when ...an impasse occurs" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New Public Health and the Law column: "Public Health Limits of Medical Freedom" by James Hodge, Jr., Summer Ghaith, and Amirala S. Pasha. "Bodily autonomy is unquestionably constitutionally grounded, but not unconditional." #MedicalFreedom #Vaccination www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New Health Policy Portal column: "Sociolegal Reproductive Coercion: A Framework for Understanding Structural Pressures on Reproductive Decision-Making" by Laura E. T. Swan, Klaira Lerma, and @lindsaymcannon.bsky.social of @uwmadison.bsky.social , and Fran Linkin. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access: "The Ethical Justifiability of Patient Restraint in Hospitals: Moving to a Public Health Ethics Approach" by Courtney Coyne and Rosalind McDougall. It defines #restraint as a concept and suggests an approach grounded in public health ethics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access: "Insurrection Powers and the Public’s Health" by James G. Hodge Jr., Taylor Brown, and Kimberly Hartle of @asulaw.bsky.social addresses "Major legal options of presidential emergency powers to address civil uprisings as distinct threats..." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access on FirstView: "Minding the Gap: The Absence of Pennsylvania’s Involuntary Commitment Data" by Ari Gluckman, Michele Mekel, and Laura Cabrera of @rockethics.bsky.social . #InvoluntaryCommitment #Privacy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access: "AI’s Promise of Healthy Longevity: Exploring the Implications of Extended Lifespans Under International Law" by Jon Truby and Indira Dewi Kantiana. "Do we already have, or should we develop, international law to radically extended lifespans?" #AI www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New: "The Sufficiency of Disclosure in Medical AI Patents: Evidence from 865 Granted Patents Across the US, China, and the EU" by Ruyi Xiao and Jin Zhang asks "Do current medical AI patents satisfy the legal requirement of sufficiency of disclosure?" #AI #MedicalAI www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access on FirstView: "Beyond the Benefit of Doubt: Biases and Credibility in the Adjudication of Chronic Pain" by Rodrigo Deamo Assis, Steven P Cohen, Hance Clarke of @tps-paintoronto.bsky.social , Nimish Mittal, and Mary-Ann Fitzcharles. #ChronicPain www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open access on FirstVIew: "Redefining Pain and Addiction: How Opioid Manufacturers Changed Medical Language to Foster Opioid Use" by Aidan Kaspari, Judy Butler, and Adriane Fugh-Berman explains how #opioid manufacturers seeded marketing messages into medicine. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Providing physiologic support to a brain-dead pregnant person poses complex ethical, legal, &clinical challenges. In this paper, my co-authors & I use a theoretical case to examine these considerations & outline a path forward that respects the pregnant person, their families, & healthcare team

New open-access: "Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Prolonged Physiologic Support after Brain Death in Previable Pregnancy" by April R. Dworetz, @amwhelan.bsky.social , Ashley Waddell Tingstad, Kara B. Markham, and DonnaMaria E. Cortezzo. #Pregnancy #BrainDeath www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access: "Beyond Individual Privacy: A Layered Diagnostic Model for Analyzing Genetic Data Governance" by @ruoxinsu.bsky.social . It notes that modern genetic "data’s value is simultaneously collective, strategic, and even geopolitical." #Privacy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access on FirstView: "Conceptualizing Reproductive Donation: Developing Models of Egg and Sperm Donation and the Implications for Regulating Information Giving" by @lucyfrith.bsky.social provides a framework for "... critiquing regulation and oversight." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On Friday, September 25, t6he Drexel Kline Law Review and Drexel Kline Health Law Program will host a symposium exploring the challenges facing hospitals and the future of hospital care in the United States. Submit your presentation proposal now for consideration. aslme.org/call-for-pro...

New open-access on FirstView: "David Wasserman and Supported Decision-Making in Research" by Adam Cureton is a tribute to David Wasserman, who contributed greatly to research in the area of supported decision-making. From the upcoming symposium on the topic. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Writing for @jlme-journal.bsky.social, Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar @ninakohn.bsky.social, 2016–18 Fellow Megan Wright, and a co-author explore how to overcome legal barriers to greater use of supported decision-making for people with cognitive disabilities. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New issue available: "2025 Public Health Law Conference: Connection. Collaboration. Community." This symposium compiles many of the timely, thought-provoking papers from the recent @networkforphl.bsky.social conference. #PublicHealth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access on FirstView: "Adults with Intellectual Disability and Consent to Precision Medicine Research: Using Supported Decision-Making to Facilitate First-Person Consent" by Katherine McDonald, Robert Olick, Robert Dinerstein, et al.. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New issue available: "2025 Public Health Law Conference: Connection. Collaboration. Community." This symposium compiles many of the timely, thought-provoking papers from the recent @networkforphl.bsky.social conference. #PublicHealth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access on FirstView: "A Federal Policy and Legal Framework to Help Address Health Disparities Experienced by People with Intellectual and Other Cognitive Disabilities: Clinical Research and Supported Decision-Making" by @abarkoff.bsky.social . #disability www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access: "From Decision Supporter to Informed Surrogate: An Improved Approach to Enrolling Cognitively Impaired Subjects in Clinical Research" by Robert Randolph Harrison and Alannah Trombetta of @sjquinney.bsky.social . #SupportedDecisionMaking www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last call for submissions to the 2026 ASLME & SLU Law Health Law Scholars Workshop. Abstracts due by Monday, April 13! More info on the program & how to submit available here: www.slu.edu/law/health/s... @slu-official.bsky.social @slulaw.bsky.social @jlme-journal.bsky.social

New open-access: “'I Want to Be Interdependent': An Exploratory Study on the Use of Supported Decision-Making for People with Serious Mental Illness" by Fitore Hyseni, Jonathan G. Martinis, Fatma Altunkol Wise, Nanette J. Goodman, Elyn R. Saks, and Peter Blanck. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access on FirstView: "The Limits of Litigation: An Interview-Based Analysis of the Limits of Case Law in Developing Patients’ Autonomy-Based Rights in Medical Practice" by Annie Mackley, Caitriona L. Cox, and Zoe Fritz. #litigation #CaseLaw www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New on FirstView: "Supported Decision-Making for Clinical Research Participants with Mental Illness" by Benjamin C. Silverman, Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, David H. Strauss, Michael Ashley Stein, Leslie Francis, and Barbara E. Bierer. #MentalIllness #Consent www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Writing for @jlme-journal.bsky.social, @solomonctryls.bsky.social Visiting Lecturer Mark Barnes and his co-authors set forth ethical principles to guide the biospecimen research essential to understanding complex diseases. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In this paper, we talk about how non-domination is an important and often ignored value when it comes to research, especially research involving people with IDD. 1/?

New open access on FirstView: "The Value of Non-Domination in Supported Decision-Making for Research Participation for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities" by @thedanahoward.bsky.social and Allison M. McCarthy. #DisabilityJustice www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2026 #healthlaw Scholars applications deadline (Monday 4/13) is quickly approaching. Send in your abstract today!

New on FirstView: "Advancing Commitment to Health Equity Through Community-Based Legal Epidemiology: A Case Study of Local Policy Reform" by Mitchell Blount et al. analyzes a project in East Point, Georgia. #LegalEpidemiology #StructuralRacism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access: "The Legal Landscape for Supported Decision-Making in the United States and its Application to Clinical Research" by Nina A. Kohn, Megan S. Wright, & Robert D. Dinerstein, from the upcoming symposium "Supported Decision-Making & Clinical Research." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A new Issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is now available 📚 https://cup.org/4m1QOd7 @jlme-journal.bsky.social #PublicHealth #HealthLaw

New on FirstView: "Thinking Practically About How to Amplify Public Input in State Administrative Rulemaking" by Maxim Gakh explores ways to "deliberately structure state rulemaking to encourage meaningful public input." #StateRulemaking #PublicHealthLaw www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now available online: Issue 54.1 of The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, featuring articles on topics including gene therapy, abortion, lowering health care costs, medical device review, psychedelic medicines, stimulant regulation, clinical research and more. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New on FirstView: “'Stress Off Our Shoulders': A Qualitative Pilot Study of a Neonatal Medical-Legal Partnership" by Susanne Klawetter, Lauren Mutrie, Eline Lenne, Alinda Reimer, Browning Haynes, Yesenia Morales, and Ladawna Gievers. #MedicalLegalPartnership www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This entry is based on a paper published in JLME!

New open-access on FirstView: "The Role of the Medical Champion in the Medical-Legal Partnership: A Delphi Study" by Carlin F. Aloe, Lisa Puglisi, Richard Marottoli, Andrea Silber, Rahul Vanjani, and Ada M. Fenick. #Medical-LegalPartnership #MLP www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New open-access on FirstView: "Ethical Principles and Practices in HIV Acquisition Research in Humanitarian Crises: A Cross-Sectional Study" by Dina Garmroudi, Dini Harsono, Kaveh Khoshnood et al. #HIV www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

FINAL DAY! (Travel $$ to attend the Workshop & ASLME Health Law Professors) Jr Scholars Apps Due 3/10! The Workshop for Legal Scholars in Health Sciences (AKA WEIRDOS) will be 6/3/26 - with an opportunity for 5 scholars to present & get feedback on an “in progress” project. Link in the comments:

New on FirstView: "Body and Soul: How Neuroimaging Should Revise Tort Perspectives on PTSD" by Alexandra Midler. "It no longer makes sense to define the disorder as an exclusively emotional injury when each of its symptoms correlates to clear damages in the brain." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really enjoyed the discussions of the recent @euhealthgov.bsky.social webinar (and also contributing to the Symposium!) Webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHmj... Write-up: healthgovernance.ideasoneurope.eu/2026/02/27/s...

This entry is from a paper published in JLME. Excited to see how it performs in STAT Madness!

The recording & blog of our webinar launching @jlme-journal.bsky.social Symposium, "Public Health, Markets, & Law" is now here! Many thanks to all speakers for a great discussion! euhealthgov.org/summary-publ... @ideasoneurope.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social

New: “'We Playin’ Chess But You Give Me a Checker Piece': A Portrait of Structural Racism Ingrained in Overdose Good Samaritan Laws Through Semi-Structured Interviews" by Dong-Chul Seo, @naomicarmen.bsky.social , Shin Hyung Lee, Charlotte Crabtree, & Nicki Cochran. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A new issue of @jlme-journal.bsky.social is now available! Read articles on the new VSED Advance Directive, ethics and Alzheimer's, upholding autonomy, oncofertility, medical-legal partnerships in HIV care, and more: 📚 https://cup.org/46MBZ7I #PublicHealth #HealthLaw

Read the article from @jlme-journal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1017/jme....

New open access on FirstView: "Bribery and the Global Pharmaceutical Industry: An Exploration of Patterns and Penalties in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Reports" by Jillian Kohler, Anaam Khan, and Andrea Bowra. #bribery #corruption www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New on FirstView: Shortly after Roe v. Wade, Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin was convicted of manslaughter in Massachusetts for providing abortion care. The case has lessons for today's post-Dobbs landscape. By @cshachar.bsky.social, Meg Lanthier, and Eli Adashi. #Abortion www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

JLME's Winter issue covers a wide array of topics, from advance directives to oncofertility to medical-legal partnerships and more. Many of the articles are open access. Read it today at: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...