| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Abhery Das , Michael Esposito , Hedwig Lee |
BODILY HARM: THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF POLICING IN THE UNITED STATES |
112 California Law Review 1043 (June, 2024) |
In the United States, more than fifty million people have direct contact with police every year. Types of direct contact include pedestrian or traffic stops, traffic accidents, arrests, or resident-initiated events. During these police encounters, approximately one million individuals experience use of force. Annually, an estimated 250,000... |
2024 |
| Jason A. Cade |
CHALLENGING THE CRIMINALIZATION OF UNDOCUMENTED DRIVERS THROUGH A HEALTH JUSTICE FRAMEWORK |
41 Wisconsin International Law Journal 325 (Spring, 2024) |
States increasingly use driver's license laws to further policy objectives unrelated to road safety. This symposium contribution employs a health justice lens to focus on one manifestation of this trend--state schemes that prohibit noncitizen residents from accessing driver's licenses and then impose criminal sanctions for driving without... |
2024 |
| Medha D. Makhlouf |
CHARITY CARE FOR ALL: STATE EFFORTS TO ENSURE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR NONCITIZEN PATIENTS |
23 Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy 57 (2024) |
Abstract. 59 Introduction. 60 I. Hospital Charity Care and Community Benefits. 65 A. Hospitals as Charitable Organizations: The Basis for Tax-Exempt Status. 66 B. The Evolution of the Federal Community Benefit Standard. 70 C. New Requirements under the ACA. 71 1. Community Health Needs Assessments. 72 2. Regulation of Billing Practices and... |
2024 |
| Frank Ferdik , Emily Pica |
CORRECTIONAL OFFICER TURNOVER INTENTIONS AND MENTAL ILLNESS SYMPTOM: TESTING THE POTENTIAL CONFOUNDING EFFECTS OF RESILIENCE |
30 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 33 (February, 2024) |
Correctional officers (COs) working in county-level jails are shouldered with important responsibilities designed to maintain institutional order. Despite the invaluable work they perform, an alarming number of officers voluntarily resign from their position shortly following their initial hire date, creating severe problems for the facilities they... |
2024 |
| Benjamin A. Barsky , Craig Konnoth , Michael Ashley Stein |
DISABILITY, RACE, AND HEALTH BEYOND THE CARCERAL STATE |
122 Michigan Law Review 1261 (April, 2024) |
Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health. By Mary Crossley. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. 2022. Pp. xi, 246. $34.99. In Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health (Embodied Injustice), Professor Mary Crossley argues that attending to race-and-disability intersections (at both individual and social movement... |
2024 |
| Molly J. Walker Wilson |
EFFECTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN A POST-COVID-19 AMERICA: LESSONS FROM BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE |
28 Lewis & Clark Law Review 109 (2024) |
As we emerge from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans are still reeling from the loss of life, the financial fallout, and the deep divide that continues to characterize our social and political institutions. Public health experts who were tasked with communicating facts and advice to the American public faced a daunting challenge,... |
2024 |
| Miriam C. Woodruff , Amy Polinsky , Rebecca A. Weiss |
EQUITY DEPENDS ON THE DEFINITION: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF SEGREGATION DEFINITIONS ON EQUITY IN SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH |
30 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 314 (August, 2024) |
Although government, academic, and legal agencies address the importance of racial equity, differing definitions of segregation may impact the analyses that provide the impetus for policy recommendations. This study examined how four definitions of segregation affected analyses of racial equity in access to school-based mental health in New York... |
2024 |
| Daniel G. Aaron , Leslie P. Francis |
HEALTH LAW AND BIGOTRY DISTRACTIONS |
52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 350 (Summer, 2024) |
Keywords: Health Law, Identity, Racism, LGBTQ, Medicaid Abstract: Bigotry distractions are strategic invocations of racism, transphobia, or negative stigma toward other marginalized groups to shape political discourse. Although the vast majority of Americans agree on large policy issues ranging from reducing air pollution to prosecuting corporate... |
2024 |
| Emily A. Benfer |
HOUSING IS HEALTH: PRIORITIZING HEALTH JUSTICE AND EQUITY IN THE U.S. EVICTION SYSTEM |
22 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 49 (Winter, 2024) |
The public health field has long recognized the association between housing and health. In one of the most poignant examples of housing as a social determinant of health, the COVID-19 pandemic amplified the link between an individual's housing instability and community-wide health. Housing is health became the justification for halting the... |
2024 |
| Kristina Lee |
IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, UNLESS YOU'RE MENTALLY ILL: CALIFORNIA LAWS INCENTIVIZE FINANCIALLY DRIVEN DIVORCE |
55 University of the Pacific Law Review 533 (May, 2024) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 534 II. No Help in Sight: Severe Mental Illness and California's Deficient Mental Health System. 538 A. Setting the Stage: An Overview of Serious Mental Illness. 538 B. California's Existing Legal Pathways for Obtaining Emergency Mental Health Treatment. 541 III. To Have and To Contract: California's Community... |
2024 |
| Lois Shepherd, Donna Chen |
MEDICAL RESEARCH WITHOUT CONSENT? IT'S LIKE DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN |
99 Indiana Law Journal 933 (Spring, 2024) |
When patients seek medical care, they trust their physician to offer treatments that are in their best medical interests and to engage them in a shared decision-making process to determine the best way forward. But today, in hospitals and doctors' offices around the country, physicians also place patients in research studies that randomly assign... |
2024 |
| Matthew B. Lawrence |
OPERATIONALIZING POWER IN HEALTH LAW: THE HOSPITAL ABOLITION HYPOTHESIS |
52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 364 (Summer, 2024) |
Keywords: Hospital Abolition, Health Law, Health Quality, Health Access, Equity Abstract: This symposium Article describes how prison abolitionist arguments also support the hypothesis that a defining goal of health law should be the abolition of hospitals. Like prison abolitionism, the hospital abolition hypothesis can provide a constructive way... |
2024 |
| Thomas Wilson Williams |
OWNING HEALTH EQUITY: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, CAPITAL, AND COMMUNITY-OWNED HEALTH |
55 Seton Hall Law Review 127 (2024) |
There is a long history of recognized health disparities affecting marginalized communities in the United States. These disparities have complicated and deep roots, but multiple factors can be controlled in the short term, such as access to high-quality medical care. Public and private institutions often use incentives to focus the efforts of... |
2024 |
| Ji Seon Song |
PATIENT OR PRISONER |
92 George Washington Law Review 1 (February, 2024) |
Carceral power expands into many institutions vital to social life. This Article focuses on one such important institution: the hospital in the free world. Hospitals outside of carceral institutions routinely treat, diagnose, screen, and discharge people under law enforcement and correctional control. Just as hospitals serve an important function... |
2024 |
| Charles D. Curran |
PERSONAL DATA & VACCINATION HESITANCY: COVID-19'S LESSONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH FEDERALISM |
73 Catholic University Law Review 1 (Spring, 2024) |
During the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the federal government adopted a more centralized approach to the collection of public health data. Although the states previously had controlled the storage of vaccination information, the federal government's Operation Warp Speed plan required the reporting of recipients' personal information on the... |
2024 |
| David Gartner, Arizona State University, Washington D.C., USA, Email: David.Gartner@asu.edu |
PREVENTIVE CARE AND HEALTH EQUITY: THE EDUCATIONAL DIVIDE |
50 American Journal of Law & Medicine 121 (2024) |
The preventive services at the center of Braidwood Management, Inc. v. Becerra contribute to reducing inequities in life expectancy in the United States. Critical preventive are currently fully covered by insurance as preventive care under the Affordable Care Act. Reducing affordable access to such screenings and medicines is most likely to impact... |
2024 |
| Emily R. Edwards , Gabriella Epshteyn , Caroline K. Diehl , Danny Ruiz , Brettland Coolidge , Nicole H. Weiss , Lynda Stein |
PRISON OR TREATMENT? GENDER, RACIAL, AND ETHNIC INEQUITIES IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE HISTORY AMONG INCARCERATED PERSONS WITH BORDERLINE AND ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDERS |
48 Law and Human Behavior 104 (April, 2024) |
Objective: Borderline and antisocial personality disorders are characterized by pervasive psychosocial impairment, disproportionate criminal justice involvement, and high mental health care utilization. Although some evidence suggests that systemic bias may contribute to demographic inequities in criminal justice and mental health care among... |
2024 |
| Theresa Pinto, Esq. M.S., Abigail Fleming, Esq., Sabrina Payoute, M.S., Elissa Klein |
PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS AND INTRA-URBAN FORCED DISPLACEMENT DUE TO CLIMATE GENTRIFICATION IN THE GREATER MIAMI AREA--COMMUNITY LAWYERING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT |
78 University of Miami Law Review 432 (Spring, 2024) |
Because Miami-Dade County is ground zero for such climate effects as sea-level rise and increasingly hazardous, climate-driven Atlantic hurricanes, the coral rock ridge that runs along the Eastern coast of South Florida is a prime target for redevelopment and climate gentrification. Through a community and movement lawyering for environmental... |
2024 |
| Khiara M. Bridges |
RACE IN THE MACHINE: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH AND MEDICAL AI |
110 Virginia Law Review 243 (April, 2024) |
What does racial justice--and racial injustice--look like with respect to artificial intelligence in medicine (medical AI)? This Article offers that racial injustice might look like a country in which law and ethics have decided that it is unnecessary to inform people of color that their health is being managed by a technology that likely encodes... |
2024 |
| Amanda Alexander, J.D., Ph.D., Tolulope Sonuyi, M.D., M.Sc. |
REDUCING COMMUNITY VIOLENCE & INCARCERATION: INSIGHTS FROM A HEALTH-JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP IN DETROIT |
42 Yale Law and Policy Review 773 (Spring, 2024) |
Community violence is the leading cause of death for young adults in Detroit. Our community and others across the country desperately require solutions that center the needs of violence survivors and interrupt cycles of violence, reinjury, retaliation, incarceration, and premature death. Most cities have confronted the problem of community violence... |
2024 |
| Emily A. Harrison |
REIMAGINING VACCINE ACCESS FOR HEALTH EQUITY |
52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 480 (Summer, 2024) |
Keywords: Vaccines, Health Equity, Host Factors, History, Health Systems The Covid-19 pandemic elevated global attention to the complex problem of allocating and disseminating newly approved vaccines. Following early calls for vaccine equity, global health leaders made progress but struggled to fully realize distribution goals. With respect to... |
2024 |
| Sophie Brill |
RE-RIGHTING HISTORY: A CRITICAL RACE PERSPECTIVE OF DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION |
39 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 41 (2024) |
Introduction. 41 Syllabus. 42 Opinion. 42 I. Issue at Hand. 42 II. The Constitutional Question. 44 III. Slavery, Subordination, and Reproductive Autonomy. 48 IV. HB 1510 and The Reconstruction Amendments. 51 V. Holding. 54 |
2024 |
| Allison Whelan |
RETHINKING FEDERALISM IN HEALTH CARE |
38 Journal of Law and Health 10 (31-Oct-24) |
The following is a transcript from Racial Disparities and Outcomes presented at Cleveland State University College of Law by the Journal of Law and Health on Friday, February 9, 2024. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and to reflect updates in the relevant law since the time of transcription. Allison M. Whelan: It is great to be... |
2024 |
| Michelle Leigh Brown |
SCAPEGOATS |
22 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 337 (Winter, 2024) |
A teenage girl hosted a co-ed slumber party at her home while her parents were on vacation. Her guests shared candy laced with THC (the main active ingredient of cannabis), a bottle of wine, and a dab pen (a device used to vape THC). After consuming varying amounts of the intoxicants, an eighteen-year-old male sexually penetrated a sixteen-year-old... |
2024 |
| Ruqaiijah Yearby |
STRUCTURAL RACISM, THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND HEALTH JUSTICE |
38 Journal of Law and Health 21 (31-Oct-24) |
The following is a transcript from Racial Disparities and Outcomes presented at Cleveland State University College of Law by the Journal of Law and Health on Friday, February 9, 2024. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and to reflect updates in the relevant law since the time of transcription. Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby: I'm going... |
2024 |
| James G. Hodge, Jr. , Jennifer L. Piatt , Erica N. White , Leila F. Barraza , Kyrah M. Berthiaume |
SUPREME COURT IMPACTS IN PUBLIC HEALTH LAW: 2023-2024 |
52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 484 (Summer, 2024) |
Keywords: Reproductive Rights, Constitutional Law, Firearms, Discrimination, Second Amendment, Opioids, Misinformation Abstract: In a mixed bag 2023-2024 session, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a series of decisions both favorable and antithetical to public health and safety. Taking on tough constitutional issues implicating gun control,... |
2024 |
| Sarah Davis |
TEACHING STRUCTURAL COMPETENCY IN LAW SCHOOL: INTERDISCIPLINARY INSPIRATION FROM MEDICAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIPS AND HEALTH-RELATED DISCIPLINES TO MEET ABA STANDARD 303(C) |
52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 251 (Summer, 2024) |
Keywords: Medical Legal Partnership, Interdisciplinary Teaching, Structural Competency, System Change, Systems Thinking, Systemic Racism Abstract: Law Schools are now required to provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism under ABA Standard 303(c). Law clinics, with their social justice orientation, have long... |
2024 |
| Katherine “Yenny” Wu, Esq., MPH |
TELEHEALTH SOLUTIONS FOR BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH |
33 Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences 145 (Winter, 2024) |
Serena Williams is one of the most recognizable athletes in the world. She dominated tennis for years, amassing a huge fan base, fame, and wealth. However, despite having access to the best medical care in the country, she almost died when giving birth to her daughter, Olympia. A day after giving birth via C-section in 2017, Serena Williams told... |
2024 |
| Kathryn A. Thomas, Cara A. Struble, Madeline R. Stenersen, Kelly Moore |
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN STATE-LEVEL PRENATAL SUBSTANCE USE POLICIES AND RATES OF MATERNAL MORTALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: A LEGAL EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDY |
52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 75 (Spring, 2024) |
Keywords: Maternal Mortality, Substance Use, Legal Epidemiology, Maternal Health Abstract: Little research has explored relationships between prenatal substance use policies and rates of maternal mortality across all 50 states, despite evidence that prenatal substance use elevates risk of maternal death. This study, utilizing publicly available... |
2024 |
| Elizabeth Kaplan, Anu Dairkee, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
THE BROKEN LINK: BRAIDWOOD, THE UNITED STATES PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE (USPSTF), AND THE HEALTH EQUITY IMPLICATIONS OF LOSING FREE ACCESS TO PREVENTIVE CARE |
50 American Journal of Law & Medicine 100 (2024) |
Braidwood Management, Inc. v. Becerra threatens the nationwide enforceability of the preventive care mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with respect to a variety of preventive health care services. The success of this lawsuit could have devastating repercussions. Not only would many current guidelines of the U.S. Preventive Services Task... |
2024 |
| Emily B. Egart |
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER: ADDRESSING THE VOID BETWEEN THE HEALTHCARE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS |
50 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 1 (February, 2024) |
I. Introduction. 3 II. Historical Background. 5 A. Deinstitutionalization. 7 1. Colliding Sociopolitical Movements, Legislation, and Jurisprudence. 9 2. The Aftermath of Deinstitutionalization. 12 B. The War on Drugs. 13 III. Case History: The Question of Status vs. Conduct. 14 A. Robinson v. California. 14 B. Powell v. Texas. 15 C. Manning v.... |
2024 |
| Sonora Windermere, Kenneth B. Nunn, J.D. , Supervised |
THE MEDICAL AND LEGAL PLIGHT OF SICKLE CELL PATIENTS A CASE STUDY OF RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE AND THE POTENTIAL LEGAL REMEDIES |
21 Indiana Health Law Review 83 (2024) |
Introduction Section 1: Why Are SCD Patients Under-treated? 1.1 - Opioids Work, but How 1.2 - Mislabeled Addiction Leads to Mistreated Pseudoaddiction 1.3 - Racially Biased Medical Treatment Is Poor Treatment 1.3.1 - Racialized Research Created a Hard Habit to Quit 1.3.2 - Get Race Out of Medical Decisions 1.3.3 - When Racial Bias Goes from Paper... |
2024 |
| Yael Zakai Cannon |
THE PERSISTENT PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY |
55 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 726 (Spring, 2024) |
May 11, 2023 was ostensibly a day of celebration. With infections and deaths from COVID-19 down, the federal government announced the end of the official Public Health Emergency three years after its initial declaration. But the conclusion of the Public Health Emergency also signaled the termination of unprecedented health protection... |
2024 |
| Elizabeth Kukura |
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMEDICALIZATION AND CRIMINALIZATION IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH |
34 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 217 (2024) |
C1-2Contents I. INTRODUCTION. 217 II. UNDERSTANDING THE JACKSON FAMILY'S STORY. 224 A. Through the Lens of Demedicalization. 224 1. Demedicalizing Perinatal Care. 224 2. Demedicalizing Newborn Care. 233 B. Through the Lens of Criminalization. 239 III. DEMEDICALIZATION IN CONTEXT. 243 A. Defining Demedicalization as a Social Phenomenon. 244 B.... |
2024 |
| Courtney A. Bergan |
THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND REFUSE MENTAL HEALTH CARE: A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH TO ENDING COMPULSORY PSYCHIATRIC INTERVENTION |
27 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 49 (2024) |
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without... |
2024 |
| Alice Abrokwa |
TOO STUBBORN TO CARE FOR: THE IMPACTS OF DISCRIMINATION ON PATIENT NONCOMPLIANCE |
77 Vanderbilt Law Review 461 (March, 2024) |
The role of implicit racial biases in police interactions with people of color has garnered increased public attention and scholarly examination over time, but implicit racial bias in the healthcare context can be as deadly, particularly when it intersects with ableism and sexism. Researchers have found that medical providers are more likely to... |
2024 |
| Angela Dixon |
UNSHACKLED: WHY ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES REQUIRES THAT OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM SET INCARCERATED MOTHERS AND THEIR DEVELOPING CHILDREN FREE |
38 Journal of Law and Health 102 (31-Oct-24) |
Abstract: Incarceration of pregnant nonviolent offenders takes not only the pregnant mother captive but also her unborn child. Kept in unnecessary captivity, these innocent children may experience adverse childhood experiences (ACES) or lifelong damage to their physical and mental health. The experiences may be the same for children born already... |
2024 |
| Semir Bulle, MD |
WE CANNOT POLICE SYSTEMIC RACISM AND SYSTEMIC POVERTY: WHY POLICING IS NOT A SOLUTION TO OUR PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS |
2024 Utah Law Review 807 (2024) |
Health outcomes are profoundly influenced by the environmental conditions in which people live. The persistent legacy of structural injustices suffered by Indigenous and Black communities has had a detrimental effect on their current health status. These disparities are deeply troubling. In Canada, an individual's racial background is the primary... |
2024 |
| Siya Hegde, Carlton Martin |
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: THE CASE FOR DECRIMINALIZING HOMELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH IN AMERICA |
21 Indiana Health Law Review 249 (2024) |
I remember the heartbreak I felt when my best friend deserted me shortly after our wedding . I spiraled into an even deeper depression, leading to my resignation from Apple and eventual homelessness in North Carolina. Events turned even more harrowing when an unfortunate encounter with the police led to my hospitalization and official diagnoses of... |
2024 |
| Lori McPherson , Sarah Blazucki |
"STATISTICS ARE HUMAN BEINGS WITH THE TEARS WIPED AWAY": UTILIZING DATA TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF NATIVE AMERICANS WHO GO MISSING |
47 Seattle University Law Review 119 (Fall, 2023) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 120 I. Data Sources/Legal Mandates for Submission. 125 A. Biographic Data. 126 B. Biometric Data. 132 II. Baseline: What We Know About Missing Indigenous Persons. 134 III. Legal Considerations in Missing Person Cases in ISndian Country. 143 A. Federalism and Limits of Federal Power. 143 B. Right to Privacy & the Right to... |
2023 |
| Claire Mullaney , Michele Okoh |
A DROP IN THE BUCKET: NORTH CAROLINA'S NEGLECTED PROBLEM OF PRIVATE WELL WATER CONTAMINATION |
3 North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review 1 (Spring, 2023) |
In the U.S., an estimated 42.5 million people--about 13% of the nation's population--obtain their drinking water from private wells. While the Safe Drinking Water Act protects those served by public water systems from unsafe levels of contamination in their water, limited legal protection exists for private well users, leaving them susceptible to... |
2023 |
| Autumn Burgin |
A NEW MEANS FOR HEALTHCARE? HOW THE UNITED STATES COULD LEARN FROM COSTA RICA |
38 Syracuse Journal of Science & Technology Law 125 (2022-2023) |
Healthcare in the United States has been a longstanding battle for many years between a private and public system. Today, the United States offers a mixed model approach with components of both public and private sectors. While the U.S. has attempted to make improvements to healthcare, racial health inequality remains rampant, especially for Black... |
2023 |
| Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler |
ABORTION RIGHTS AND THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM: HOW DOBBS EXACERBATES EXISTING RACIAL INEQUITIES AND FURTHER TRAUMATIZES BLACK FAMILIES |
51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 575 (Fall, 2023) |
Keywords: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Abortion Bans, Child Welfare System, Racial Inequities Abstract: This article explores how abortion bans in states with large Black populations will exacerbate existing racial inequities in those states' child welfare systems. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court returned to... |
2023 |
| Kira Eidson |
ADDRESSING THE BLACK MORTALITY CRISIS IN THE WAKE OF DOBBS: A REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE POLICY FRAMEWORK |
24 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 929 (Spring, 2023) |
Black people who can become pregnant and give birth were dying from pregnancy-related causes at rates more than double the national average before the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, and the Dobbs decision is expected to make America's maternal mortality crisis worse. This Note discusses the expected effects of abortion... |
2023 |
| Tiffany Canate, et al. |
ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND JUSTICE: A CALL FOR ASSESSMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF HEALTHCARE WASTE |
53 Environmental Law 147 (Spring, 2023) |
Tiffany Canate , Michele Okoh , Crystal Dixon , Natalie Sampson , Kandyce Dunlap , Fatemeh Shafiei , Jay Herzmark , Lindsay Tallon , Na'Taki Osborne Jelks , Theodora Tsongas , Denise Patel , Olivia Wilson , Eric Persaud , Omega Wilson, Brenda Wilson , Vincent Martin , Kelly McLaughlin , Margarita Asiain Healthcare waste adversely impacts society in... |
2023 |
| Yael Zakai Cannon, Vida Johnson |
ADVANCING RACIAL JUSTICE THROUGH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL ACADEMIC MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIPS |
30 Clinical Law Review 29 (Fall, 2023) |
The medical-legal partnership (MLP) model, which brings attorneys and healthcare partners together to remove legal barriers to health, is a growing approach to addressing unmet civil legal needs. But MLPs are less prevalent in criminal defense settings, where they also have the potential to advance both health and legal justice. In fact, grave... |
2023 |
| Dorothy Couchman |
AFFIRMING AND SUPPORTING BLACK WOMEN'S LACTATION AGENCY AS REDRESS |
60 San Diego Law Review 587 (August-September, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 588 II. Why Lactation as Redress?. 591 III. The Atrocity. 592 A. Lactation Abuse in Enslavement. 593 B. Lactation Denial During Jim Crow. 593 IV. The Harms of Lactation Agency Denial. 597 V. Atonement and Redress. 598 VI. Areas for Lactation Redress. 600 A. Lactation Agency in Perinatal Care. 600 B. Infant... |
2023 |
| Allison M. Whelan* |
AGGRAVATING INEQUALITIES: STATE REGULATION OF ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION |
46 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 131 (Winter, 2023) |
Each year in the United States, pervasive inequities in health-care access and health outcomes contribute to tens of thousands of excess deaths among communities of color and other historically marginalized and vulnerable populations. Tragically, even that number may be a conservative estimate. These inequities transpire from structural barriers... |
2023 |
| Jonathan Fenster |
AN ANTIDOTE FOR PATIENTS: COMBATTING THE DISCRIMINATORY EFFECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE |
50 Fordham Urban Law Journal 333 (February, 2023) |
Introduction. 334 I. Artificial Intelligence: Technical Perspectives and Artificial Intelligence's Benefits. 337 A. Background to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. 337 B. The Benefits of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. 338 II. The Concerns for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. 339 III. The Legal Issues of Artificial Intelligence in... |
2023 |
| Makiya Turntine |
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION WILL LIKELY HAVE A NEGATIVE, DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT ON WOMEN OF COLOR AND REASSERT INFERIORITY |
46 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 237 (Winter, 2023) |
I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Before Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, when abortion was a fundamental right, women of lower socioeconomic status, including women of color, experienced higher abortion rates... |
2023 |