Matthew J.B. Lawrence
- Law Clerk for Judge Ginsburg (D.C. Circuit)
Whether patients should be able to contract out of the malpractice system has been a hotly debated subject in law and economics and health law literature. Advocates of patient choice argue that if the cost of having the option to bring a malpractice suit truly outweighs the benefit to a… Read More »
Jeffrey S. Morrow
- 2010 J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law School
Genetic discrimination is unfair. This observation is, by all accounts, largely uncontroversial. As a result of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), which took effect in late November, genetic discrimination is also now illegal. GINA prohibits employers from using genetic information in employment decisions and prohibits health insurers from… Read More »
A risk governance paradigm provides the best theoretical framework for understanding both the health care system and health law. By “risk governance,” I mean a set of practices organized around principles of risk allocation, management, and distribution. Largely through the structures of managed care, the discourse of risk and insurance… Read More »
James B. McArthur
- J.D. Candidate, Cornell Law School
The proposition that mankind’s interaction with its environment can have unintended consequences would surprise few Americans. For decades, ever since Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, the environmental movement has prepared us to understand that the choices we make can have complicated and unexpected effects on the world around us. As the… Read More »
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