The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (JLME) is a leading peer-reviewed journal for research at the intersection of law, health policy, ethics, and medicine.
- New on FirstView: "Balancing Progress and Precautions with Emerging Biotechnologies: Evaluating the Process of Gene Therapy Research Becoming'Normal'” by Stephanie Solomon Cargill. Many thanks to @nadagligorov.bsky.social for assistance. #GeneTherapy www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #GeneTherapy
- 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...
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- New Global Health Law column on FirstView: "US Global Health Leadership: The First Year of the Second Trump Administration" by Lawrence O. Gostin, @alexandrafinch.bsky.social , and @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social . #Trump #TrumpAdministration #RFK #HHS #WHO www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access on FirstView: "Objective Standards of Medical Judgment: A Myth of (Texas) Abortion Law" by Abraham Graber of @osuwexmed.bsky.social, Mack Peterson, and Ethan Detrick. #Abortion #Dobbs #HumanLifeProtectionAct www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New on FirstView: "Regulating Medical Devices: The Values and Politics of the US FDA Review Process" by Melanie Jeske of @bcmhouston.bsky.social and Kelly Joyce investigates how problems with medical device regulation persist today. #FDA #MedicalDevices www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- From the archives: Stan L. Block discusses the ethical dilemmas for and financial costs to pediatricians that refuse patients whose parents refuse #vaccines : www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New on FirstView: "Bioethics in the Courtroom: Sketching Medicine with Integrity" by Katrina A. Bramstedt discusses how the portrayal of the medical condition of a witness, plaintiff, or defendant can affect the public's perception of them. #bioethics #journalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- New open-access on FirstView: "Using Tiny Research Assignments to Support Active Learning" by @nnsawicki.bsky.social. This article gives actionable insights and exercises that are immediately useful to anyone teaching health law — and other fields, too. #pedagogy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access on FirstView: "Social Determinants of Health Revisited: Detouring Around the Weberian Bureaucracy," by Min-Jul Yeh. The article details the structural issues in resolving social determinants of health, and suggests ways to circumvent them. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access on FirstView: "Legal and Ethical Issues in Periviable Decision-Making in the Current Moment" by Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, and Erika Rose Cheng explores the ethical and legal challenges that have only grown since #Dobbs. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New on FirstView: "Restricted Supply, Rising Demand: Reimagining Prescription Stimulant Regulation Amid A National Shortage" by Neha V. Dantuluri identifies the issues that have led to the current shortages and proposes actionable reforms. #ADHD #DEA #FDA www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Thank you to everyone who donated this Giving Tuesday! We were thrilled at the outpouring of generosity. If you didn't donate yesterday, it is not too late to help us meet our year-end goal and support health law in these difficult times. You can donate at: aslme.org/donations/
- This Giving Tuesday, we are so close to our stretch goal! Help support the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics as it produces this journal, puts on great events like the Health Law Professors Conference, and otherwise supports the field. #GivingTuesday aslme.org/donations/
- It's not even Giving Tuesday yet, and we only have $4,783 to go to reach our goal of $15,000! Your tax deductible donation will make a huge difference. #Donation #GivingTuesday aslme.org/donations/
- New open-access on FirstView: "Dispelling Vaccine Legal Myths" by James G. Hodge, Jr. "...improved legal and policy understanding can unravel and dispel misperceptions or fabrications about the role of law and vaccinations." #Vaccines #Vaccination www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Get a preview of articles that will be published in our Winter and Spring issues on our FirstView page: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New job posting on the ASLME Insider blog: Director, Health Law Institute, Mitchell Hamline School of Law aslme.org/job-posting-...
- Open-access: "Oncofertility in Prepubertal Girls: A Qualitative Study of Canadian and French Pediatric Oncologists’ Perspectives on Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation," by Aliya Affdal & Mathieu Bujold of @umontreal.ca & Vardit Ravitsky of @hastingscenter.bsky.social . www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New on FirstView: "Pedal to the Medals: How CityHealth Uses Legal Epidemiology to Promote Equity Through City-Level Policy Change" by David Jernigan, Katrina Forrest, Catherine Patterson, Elizabeth Platt, and @brianccastrucci.bsky.social @debeaumontfndtn.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- The Call for Abstracts for the 2026 Health Law Professors Conference is now open! Proposals are due by January 31, 2026. We've added a new format called Round Tables. The conference will be held June 3–5, 2026, at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
- Get actionable tactics for mock trials for pharmacy and law students in the open-access "Bridging the Theories and Practices of Healthcare and Law: A Student-Led Interprofessional Mock Trial Integrating Pharmacy Practice and Legal Education." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Keep up on the latest events, job postings and more in the health law field with the monthly ASLME Insider newsletter. If you don't subscribe, sign up here and get the news before everyone else: aslme.org/aslme-insider/
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- New open-access on FirstView: "Research Advance Directives: Ethical Implications for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease, and for the Families of Elderly Dementia Patients" by Dean Evan Hart. #alzheimers #dementia #AdvanceDirectives www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- ASLME is pleased to partner with @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social to present Preventing Stillbirth: Legal, Policy, and Public Health Perspectives. This panel featuring Jessica L. Cohen, Katherine J. Gold, and Jill Wieber Lens, will be hybrid, online and in person. Learn more: aslme.org/preventing-s...
- New on FirstView: "Addressing US Demand for Psychedelic Medicines in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty" by @hollylynchez.bsky.social, Xinping Hu, and Alison Bateman-House. This paper shows the benefits and drawbacks of several policy options. #psychedelics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- We remember a leader in UK medical ethics with this obituary by Stephen W. Smith: "Pioneering Healthcare Law in the UK: Margaret 'Margot' Brazier, OBE": www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open access on FirstView: "Framing, Narratives, and the Overdose Crisis" is @itaibavli.bsky.social 's insightful commentary on a recent article by Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, Quinn Grundy, Ben Hawkins and Robert Schwartz @uoftdlsph.bsky.social (also open access). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access on FirstView: "Dignity and Abortion in Law, Philosophy, and Bioethics" by Eric Scarffe. "There is plenty for moral philosophy to learn from the case law surrounding abortion..." #dignity #abortion #LGBTQRights www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New Global Health Law column: "Renewing Nordic Leadership in Global Health" by Steven L.B. Jensen. "These efforts to renew global health policy ... have become even more timely in 2025 amid the US government defunding of global health and de facto closure of USAID." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access Teaching Health Law column: "Bridging the Theories and Practices of Healthcare and Law: A Student-Led Interprofessional Mock Trial Integrating Pharmacy Practice and Legal Education" by Larry J. Pittman, Kim G. Adcock, and Sally Earl. #PharmacyLaw www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New on FirstView: "New VSED Advance Directive: Improved Documentation to Avoid Late-Stage Dementia" by Thaddeus Mason Pope, Lisa E. Brodoff, Erin Mae Glass, Paul T. Menzel, and Robb M. Miller. #EndOfLife #DementiaDirective www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New on FirstView: "Human-Centric AI Governance: An Adaptive Public International Law Framework for Ethical and Inclusive AI Regulation in Public Health" by Farman Saeed Sedeeq and Percem Arman. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New on FirstView: "Overlapping Method of Use Patents to Prevent Generic Entry" by Jin Park, @akesselheim.bsky.social , & S. Sean Tu describes "the role that use codes can play in blocking generic entry through a special regulatory pathway called skinny labeling..." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- The September issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is now online. This issue features the open-access symposium Public Health, Markets, and Law, guest edited by @minacompetition.bsky.social and Imelda Maher, with incisive, in-depth articles. Read now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- New open-access article on FirstView: "Constructing Opioid Legitimacy: The Canadian Pain Task Force’s Framing of the Overdose Crisis" by Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, Quinn Grundy, Ben Hawkins, and Robert Schwartz. #opioids #pain #PainManagement www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access on FirstView: "ERISA and the Failure of Employers to Perform Their Fiduciary Duties: Evidence from a Survey of Health Plan Administrators" by @barakrichman.bsky.social , Amy Monahan, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Sara Singer. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New on FirstView: "An Analysis of Anti-Bullying Laws in the United States" by Dane Alexander White, Gabrielle F. Miller, Kyle Rosenblum, Christopher Dunphy, Riley Wagner, and Molly Merrill-Francis. #bullying #LegalEpidemiology #MentalHealth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access on FirstView: "EU’s Extraterritorial Obligations for Global Medicine Access Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CPRD)" by @katperehudoff.bsky.social from special issue "Public Health, Markets, and Law." #DisabilityRights www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access article on FirstView: "Intellectual Property Rights and Global Access to Health Technologies During Pandemics: Reflecting on Vaccine Nationalism, COVID-19 & the WHO Pandemic Agreement Negotiations" by @aislingmcmahon.bsky.social. #PandemicAgreement www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access on FirstView: "Maintaining the Integrity of the Biomedical Research Record Through Timely, Appropriate Corrective Action" by Lauren Walsh, Minal Caron, Carolyn T. Lye , Mark Barnes, and Barbara E. Bierer. #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open access on FirstView: "Advance Market Commitments and Their Role in Public Innovation" by Sarosh Nagar, Anil Cacodcar, and @akesselheim.bsky.social analyzes what AMCs have done so far to fund innovation in medicine, and where they fall short. #ScienceFunding www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- We are proud to announce the publication of the Summer 2025 issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, with a diverse range of thought-provoking articles. If you are a print subscriber, you will receive your issue in the next couple of weeks. Read it now at: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- New open access on FirstView: "Trust Beyond Borders: European External Regulatory Influence on Access to Medicines" by Pramiti Parwani, @katperehudoff.bsky.social, and @deruijter.bsky.social from the upcoming fall special issue "Public Health, Markets, and Law." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New open-access on FirstView: "Compassionate Release and COVID-19: Analyzing Inconsistent Applications of the First Step Act by Federal Courts" by Helen Mooney of @yalesph.bsky.social, Kayla Larkin and Mara Howard-Williams. #CompassionateRelease #COVID-19 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Worthwhile read in the New York Times about the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, featuring an incisive quote from ASLME Treasurer Y. Tony Yang. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/h...
