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Introduction: Adolescent Medical Decision Making And The Law Of The Horse, Amanda Pustilnik, Leslie Henry Apr 2014

Introduction: Adolescent Medical Decision Making And The Law Of The Horse, Amanda Pustilnik, Leslie Henry

Leslie Meltzer Henry

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Moral Gridlock: Conceptual Barriers To No-Fault Compensation For Injured Research Subjects, Leslie Henry Jul 2013

Moral Gridlock: Conceptual Barriers To No-Fault Compensation For Injured Research Subjects, Leslie Henry

Leslie Meltzer Henry

The federal regulations that govern biomedical research, most notably those enshrined in the Common Rule, express a protectionist ethos aimed at safeguarding subjects of human experimentation from the potential harms of research participation. In at least one critical way, however, the regulations have always fallen short of this promise: if a subject suffers a research-related injury, then neither the investigator nor the sponsor has any legal obligation under the regulations to care for or compensate the subject. Because very few subjects with research-related injuries can meet the financial or evidentiary requirements associated with a successful legal claim to recover the …


Revising The Common Rule: Prospects And Challenges, Leslie Henry Jul 2013

Revising The Common Rule: Prospects And Challenges, Leslie Henry

Leslie Meltzer Henry

The annual Bioethics and Law Roundtable, jointly sponsored by the Law & Health Care Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, convened in April 2012 to address "Human Subjects Research Regulations: Proposals for Reform." This paper serves as the introduction to the seven papers presented at the symposium that discuss the prospects and challenges of revising the Common Rule.


Individual Mandate Is Constitutional, Leslie Henry, Maxwell Stearns Mar 2012

Individual Mandate Is Constitutional, Leslie Henry, Maxwell Stearns

Leslie Meltzer Henry

Supreme Court should find that key aspect of Obama's signature law is a legitimate exercise of Commerce Clause power.


Visionary Pragmatism And The Value Of Privacy In The Twenty-First Century, Danielle Citron, Leslie Henry Jan 2010

Visionary Pragmatism And The Value Of Privacy In The Twenty-First Century, Danielle Citron, Leslie Henry

Leslie Meltzer Henry

Despite extensive scholarly, legislative, and judicial attention to privacy, our understanding of privacy and the interests it protects remains inadequate. At the crux of this problem is privacy’s protean nature: it means “so many different things to so many different people” that attempts to articulate just what it is, or why it is important, generally have failed or become unwieldy. As a result, important privacy problems remain unaddressed, often to society’s detriment. In his newest book, Understanding Privacy, Daniel J. Solove aims to reverse this state of affairs with a pluralistic conception of privacy that recognizes the societal value of …