Publications - David Orentlicher

Books

Oxford Handbook on Comparative Health Law (David Orentlicher & Tamara Hervey eds., 2021).

Two Presidents are Better than One: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch (New York University Press 2013).

Matters of Life and Death: Making Moral Theory Work in Medical Ethics and the Law (Princeton University Press 2001).

Bioethics and Public Health Law (Aspen Publishing 5th ed. 2024) (Wolters Kluwer 4d ed. 2018) (Wolters Kluwer 3d ed. 2013) (Aspen Publishers 2d ed. 2008).

Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen Publishing 10th ed. 2024) (9th ed. 2018) (8th ed. 2013) (7th ed. 2007) (6th ed. 2003) (5th ed. 1998).

Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell (West 3d ed. 2011).

Health Care Crisis? The Search for Answers (David Orentlicher et al. eds., University Publishing Group 1995).

Book Contributions

COVID-19 and the Physician’s Duty to Treat, in Voices from the Front Lines: The Pandemic and the Humanities (Katherine Ratzan Peeler & Richard M. Ratzan eds., Univ. California Health Humanities Press, 2024). 

Aid in Dying in the United States: Past, Present and Future, in Politics, Persuasion and Persistence: International Perspectives on End-of-life Law Reform (Ben White and Lindy Willmott eds., Cambridge University Press 2021).

Organ Transplantation, in Oxford Handbook on Comparative Health Law (David Orentlicher and Tamara Hervey, eds., Oxford University Press 2021) (with Joaquin Cayon-De Las Cuevas).

Decisions at the End of Life, in Oxford Handbook on Comparative Health Law (David Orentlicher and Tamara Hervey, eds., Oxford University Press 2021) (with Judit Sandor).

Presumed Consent to Organ Donation, in Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics (Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch & Christopher T. Robertson eds., Johns Hopkins University Press 2016).

Societal Disregard for the Needs of the Infertile, in Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics (Leslie Francis ed., Oxford University Press 2015).

Principle and Practice for Palliative Sedation: Gaps Between the Two, in Continuous Sedation at the End of Life: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Aspects (Sigrid Sterckx, Kasper Raus & Freddy Mortier eds., Cambridge University Press 2013).

Human Immunodeficiency Viral Syndrome: Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives, in The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (Richard A. Shweder et al. eds., University of Chicago Press 2009).

Bioethics and Society: From the Ivory Tower to the State House, in The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape (Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia G. Cohn eds., Johns Hopkins University Press 2007).

Utility, Equality, and Health Care Needs of Persons with Disabilities: Interpreting the ADA’s Requirement of Reasonable Accommodation, in Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions (Anita Silver & Leslie Francis eds., Routledge Press 2000).

Medical Ethics and the Law, in Advances in Bioethics: Bioethics for Medical Education, Vol. 5 (Rem B. Edwards et al. eds., JAI Press 1999).

The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: An Ethically Inferior Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide, in Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Margaret P. Battin et al. eds., Routledge Press 1998).

Genetic Privacy in the Patient-Physician Relationship, in Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era (Mark A. Rothstein ed., Yale University Press 1997).

The Role of Professional Self-Regulation, in Regulation of the Healthcare Professions (Timothy S. Jost ed., Health Administration Press 1997).

Organ Donation—the Willing Donor, in Ethics in Emergency Medicine (Kenneth V. Iserson et al. eds., Galen Press 2d ed. 1995).

Physician-Assisted Dying: The Conflict with Fundamental Principles of American Law, in Medicine Unbound: The Human Body and the Limits of Medical Intervention (Robert H. Blank & Andrea L. Bonnicksen eds., Columbia University Press 1994).

The Growing Inaccessibility to Prenatal Care for Poor and Minority Women: A Crucial Problem for Makers of National Health Policy, in One Nation, Indivisible: The Civil Rights Challenge for the 1990s (Reginald C. Govan & William L. Taylor eds., L&B Limited 1989).

Articles

Accommodating Aid-in-Dying Safeguards for Patients with Neurologic Disease, 23(9) Am. J. Bioethics 16 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2237451.

Aid in Dying in Canada and the United States: Are U.S. States too Cautious?, 23(11) Am. J. Bioethics 73 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2256617.

Limiting Overall Hospital Costs by Capping Out-of-Network Rates, 132 Annals Health L. & Life Sci. 132 (2023) (with Kyra Morgan & Barak Richman).

Gun Regulation and the U.S. Constitution, Confluence des droits_La revue (Mar. 17, 2023), https://confluencedesdroits-larevue.com/?p=2311.

Judicial Consensus: Why the Supreme Court Should Decide Its Cases Unanimously, 54 Conn. L. Rev. 303 (2022).

Cruzan and Surrogate Decision-Making, 73 SMU L. Rev. 163 (2020). 

Ethics of Organ Procurement from the Unrepresented Patient Population, 45 J. Med. Ethics 751 (2019) (with Joseph A. Raho et al.).

Political Dysfunction and Constitutional Structure, 54 Tulsa L. Rev. 315 (2019).

Supreme Court Reform: Desirable - and Constitutionally Required, 92 S. Cal. L. Rev. Postscript 29 (2018).

Law, Religion, and Health Care, 8 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 617 (2018).

Health Care Reform: What Has Been Accomplished? What Comes Next?, 44 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 397 (2018).

Healthcare, Health, and Income, 46 J. L. Med. & Ethics 567 (2018).

The Physician's Duty to Treat During Pandemics, 108 American J. Pub. Health 1459 (2018).

Politics and the Supreme Court: The Need for Ideological Balance, 79 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 411 (2018).

International Perspectives on Physician Assistance in Dying, 46 Hastings Ctr. Rep. 6 (2016).

Economic Inequality and College Admissions Policies, 26 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 101 (2016).

Political Dysfunction and the Election of Donald Trump: Problems of the U.S. Constitution’s Presidency, 50 Ind. L. Rev. 247 (2016).

Controlling Health Care Spending: More Patient “Skin in the Game?,” 13 Ind. Health L. Rev. 348 (2016).

Off-Label Marketing, the First Amendment, and Federalism, 50 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 89 (2016).

Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid in Dying, 19 J. Palliative Med. 259 (2016).

Abortion and Compelled Physician Speech, 43 J. L., Med. & Ethics 9 (2015).

Medicaid at 50: No Longer Limited to the “Deserving” Poor?, 15 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L., & Ethics 185 (2015).

Aging Populations and Physician Aid in Dying: The Evolution of State Government Policy, 48 Ind. L. Rev. 111 (2014).

Employer-Based Health Care Insurance: Not So Exceptional After All, 36 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 541 (2014).

Concussions and Sports: Introduction, 42 J. L., Med. & Ethics 281 (2014).

The Changing Legal Climate for Physician Aid in Dying, 311 JAMA 1961 (2014).

Health Care Reform and Efforts to Encourage Healthy Behavior by Individuals, 92 N.C. L. Rev. 1637 (2014).

The Future of the Affordable Care Act: Protecting Economic Health More than Physical Health?, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 1057 (2014).

A Restatement of Health Care Law, 79 Brook. L. Rev. 435 (2014).

NFIB v. Sebelius: Proportionality in the Exercise of Congressional Power, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 463 (2013).

The FDA’s Graphic Tobacco Warning and the First Amendment, 369 New Eng. J. Med. 204 (2013).

Deactivating Implanted Cardiac Devices: Euthanasia or the Withdrawal of Treatment?, 39 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1287 (2013).

Concussion and Football: Failures to Respond by the NFL and the Medical Profession, 8 FIU L. Rev. 17 (2013).

Insights from a National Conference: “Conflicts of Interest in the Practice of Medicine,” 40 J. L., Med. & Ethics 436 (2012).

Rights to Health Care in the United States: Inherently Unstable, 38 Am. J. L. & Med. 436 (2012).

Toward Acceptance of Uterus Transplants, 42 Hastings Ctr. Rep. 12 (2012).

Constitutional Challenges to the Health Care Mandate: Based in Politics, Not Law, 160 U. Penn. L. Rev. PENNumbra 19 (2011).

Controlling Health Care Costs through Public, Transparent Processes: The Conflict Between the Morally Right and the Socially Feasible, 36 J. Corp. L. 807 (2011).

Can Congress Make You Buy Broccoli? And Why It Doesn’t Matter, 84 S. Cal. L. Rev. Postscript 9 (2011).

The Commercial Speech Doctrine in Health Regulation: The Clash Between the Public Interest in a Robust First Amendment and the Public Interest in Effective Protection from Harm, 37 Am. J. L. & Med. 299 (2011).

Cost Containment and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 6 FIU L. Rev. 65 (2010).

Using Payroll Deduction to Shelter Individual Health Insurance from Income Tax, 46 Health Servs. Res. 348 (2011).

The Legislative Process Is Not Fit for the Abortion Debate, 41 Hastings Ctr. Rep. 13 (2011).

Rationing Health Care: It’s a Matter of the Health Care System’s Structure, 19 Annals Health L. 449 (2010).

Prescription Data Mining and the Protection of Patients’ Interests, 38 J. L., Med. & Ethics 74 (2010).

Discrimination Out of Dismissiveness: The Example of Infertility, 85 Ind. L.J. 143 (2010).

Multiple Embryo Transfers: Time for Policy, 40 Hastings Ctr. Rep. 12 (2010).

Health Care Law: A Field of Gaps, 19 Annals Health L. 1 (2010).

Health Care Reform: Beyond Ideology, 301 JAMA 1816 (2009).

Presumed Consent to Organ Donation: Its Rise and Fall in the United States, 61 Rutgers L. Rev. 295 (2009).

Making Research a Requirement of Treatment: Why We Should Sometimes Let Doctors Pressure Patients to Participate in Research, 35 Hastings Ctr. Rep. 20 (2005).

Diversity: A Fundamental American Principle, 70 Mo. L. Rev. 777 (2005).

Feeding Tubes, Slippery Slopes and Physician-Assisted Suicide, 25 J. Legal Med. 389 (2004) (with Christopher M. Callahan).

The Rise and Fall of Managed Care: A Predictable Tragic Choices Phenomenon, 47 St. Louis U. L.J. 411 (2003).

Universality and Its Limits: When Research Ethics Can Reflect Local Conditions, 30 J. L., Med. & Ethics 403 (2002).

Conflicts of Interest and the Constitution, 59 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 713 (2002).

Placebo-Controlled Trials of New Drugs: Ethical Considerations, 24 Diabetes Care 771 (2001).

Beyond Cloning: Expanding Reproductive Options for Same-Sex Couples, 66 Brook. L. Rev. 651 (2000).

The Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999: A Serious Threat to Palliative Care, 283 JAMA 255 (2000) (with Arthur Caplan).

Can Assisted Suicide Be Regulated?, 11 J. Clinical Ethics 358 (2000) (with Lois Snyder).

Medical Malpractice: Treating the Causes Instead of the Symptoms, 38 med. Care 247 (2000).

Third Party Payments to Criminal Defense Lawyers: Revisiting United States v. Hodge and Zweig, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1083 (2000).

The Implementation of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act: Reassuring, but More Data Are Needed, 6 Psychol., Pub. Pol’y, & L. 489 (2000).

Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands, 25 J. Health Pol., Pol’y & L. 387 (2000).

Advertising Policies of Medical Journals: Conflicts of Interest for Journal Editors and Professional Societies, 27 J. L., Med. & Ethics 113 (1999).

Representing Defendants on Charges of Economic Crime: Unethical When Done for a Fee, 49 Emory L.J. 1339 (1999).

Cloning and Preservation of Family Integrity, 59 La. L. Rev. 1019 (1999).

The Misperception that Bioethics and the Law Lag Behind Advances in Biotechnology, 33 Ind. L. Rev. 163 (1998).

Practice Guidelines: A Limited Role in Resolving Rationing Decisions, 46 J. Am. Geriatrics Soc’y 369 (1998).

The Alleged Distinction Between Euthanasia and the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment: Conceptually Incoherent and Impossible to Maintain, 1998 U. Ill. L. Rev. 837 (1998).

Affirmative Action and Texas’ Ten Percent Solution: Improving Diversity and Quality, 74 Notre Dame L. Rev. 181 (1998).

Spanking and Other Corporal Punishment of Children by Parents: Undervaluing Children, Overvaluing Pain, 35 Hous. L. Rev. 147 (1998).

The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide—Rejecting Assisted Suicide but Embracing Euthanasia, 337 New Eng. J. Med. 1236 (1997).

The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: Rejecting Assisted Suicide, Embracing Euthanasia, 25 Hastings Con. L.Q. 947 (1997).

The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Very Modest Revolution, 38 B.C. L. Rev. 443 (1997).

The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide, 335 New Eng. J. Med. 663 (1996).

Psychosocial Assessment of Organ Transplant Candidates and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 18 Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry 5s (1996).

Destructuring Disability: Rationing of Health Care and Unfair Discrimination Against the Sick, 31 Harv. Civ. Rts.-Civ. Liberties L. Rev. 49 (1996).

Paying Physicians More To Do Less: Financial Incentives to Limit Care, 30 U. Rich. L. Rev. 155 (1996) (cited by Pegram v. Herdrich, 530 U.S. 211, 220 (2000)).

Health Care Reform and the Threat to the Patient-Physician Relationship, 5 Health Matrix: J. L.-Med. 141 (1995).

Managed Care and the Threat to the Patient-Physician Relationship, 10 Trends Health Care, L. & Ethics 19 (1995).

Organ Retrieval from Anencephalic Infants: Understanding the AMA’s Recommendations, 23 J. L., Med. & Ethics 401 (1995).

Physician Advocacy for Patients Under Managed Care, 6 J. Clinical Ethics 333 (1995).

Rationing and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 271 JAMA 308 (1994).

The Limitations of Legislation, 53 Md. L. Rev. 1255 (1994).

The Influence of a Professional Organization on Physician Behavior, 57 Alb. L. Rev. 583 (1994).

Caring for the Poor and Professional Liability: Is There a Need for Tort Reform?, 270 JAMA 1740 (1993).

The Illusion of Patient Choice in End-of-Life Decisions, 267 JAMA 2101 (1992).

Corporal Punishment in the Schools, 267 JAMA 3205 (1992).

Sources of Concern About the Patient Self-Determination Act, 325 New Eng. J. Med. 1666 (1991).

HIV-Infected Surgeons: Behringer v. Medical Center, 266 JAMA 1134 (1991).

Advance Directives on Admission: Clinical Implications and Analysis of the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, 266 JAMA 402 (1991).

Denying Treatment to the Noncompliant Patient, 265 JAMA 1579 (1991).

The Right to Die after Cruzan, 264 JAMA 2444 (1990).

Drug Testing of Physicians, 264 JAMA 1039 (1990).

Advance Medical Directives, 263 JAMA 2365 (1990).

Genetic Screening by Employers, 263 JAMA 1005 (1990).

Ethics in Cardiovascular Medicine. Task Force II: The Relation of Cardiovascular Specialists to Patients, Other Physicians and Physician-Owned Organizations, 16 J. Am. C. Cardiologists 11 (1990).

Cruzan v. Director of Missouri Department of Health: An Ethical and Legal Perspective, 262 JAMA 2928 (1989).

Physician Participation in Assisted Suicide, 262 JAMA 1844 (1989).

A Fault-Based Administrative Alternative for Resolving Medical Malpractice Claims, 42 Vand. L. Rev. 1365 (1989).

Does Mother Know Best?, 40 Hastings L.J. 1111 (1989).

Note, Organizational Papers and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, 99 Harv. L. Rev. 640 (1986).

Book Note, Medical Malpractice: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy, 99 Harv. L. Rev. 2001 (1986).

Case Comment, Monopolization and the Duty to Cooperate: Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp., 99 Harv. L. Rev. 275 (1985).

Computerized Patient-Flow Analysis of Local Family Planning Clinics, 13 Fam. Plan. Persp. 164 (1981).

American Medical Association Staff Authorship

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Ethical Issues in the Patenting of Medical Procedures, 53 Food & Drug L.J. 341 (1998).

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Managed Care Cost Containment Involving Prescription Drugs, 53 Food & Drug L.J. 25 (1998).

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Decisions Near the End of Life, 267 JAMA 2229 (1992).

Board of Trustees, Requirements or Incentives by Government for the Use of Long-Acting Contraceptives, 267 JAMA 1818 (1992).

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Sexual Misconduct in the Practice of Medicine, 266 JAMA 2741 (1991).

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Use of Genetic Testing by Employers, 266 JAMA 1827 (1991).

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Gender Disparities in Clinical Decision Making, 266 JAMA 559 (1991).

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders, 265 JAMA 1868 (1991).

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Editorial, Gifts to Physicians From Industry, 265 JAMA 2663 (1990).

Board of Trustees, Legal Interventions During Pregnancy: Court-Ordered Medical Treatments and Legal Penalties for Potentially Harmful Behavior by Pregnant Women, 264 JAMA 2663 (1990).

Council on Scientific Affairs & Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Conflicts of Interest in Medical Center/Industry Research Relationships, 263 JAMA 2790 (1990).

Board of Trustees, Frozen Pre-Embryos, 263 JAMA 2484 (1990).

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Black-White Disparities in Health Care, 263 JAMA 2344 (1990).

Council on Scientific Affairs & Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Medical Applications of Fetal Tissue Transplantation, 263 JAMA 565 (1990).

Council on Scientific Affairs & Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Persistent Vegetative State and the Decision to Withdraw or Withhold Life Support, 263 JAMA 426 (1990).