Journal Articles and Book Chapters
"Health Care as Eugenics" (forthcoming in a volume organized by Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center, 2018-19)
"The Federalism Challenges of Protecting Workers’ Medical Privacy", 94 Ind. L. J. (forthcoming 2018-19)
"Animals as Living Accommodations," 24 Animal L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018-19) (symposium)
"Animal Protection and the Myth of AWA Preemption" (forthcoming in a paper symposium organized by Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy Program, 2018-19)
"Exploring New Technologies in Biomedical Research, Forward", Drug Discovery Today (forthcoming 2018-19)
"Fragmentation After Health Care Reform," 15 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol'y 171 (2015) (symposium)
"Beastly Morality: Untangling Possibilities (Epilogue)" (with Lori Marino & Cynthia Willett), in Beastly Morality: Animals as Moral Agents (Jonathan K. Crane, ed., Columbia UP 2015)
"Vulnerability," in Keywords in Disability (Ben Reiss, Rachel Adams & Ben Serlin eds., NYU Press 2014)
"Animals as Vulnerable Subjects: Beyond Interest-Convergence, Hierarchy, and Property," in The Vulnerability Thesis: Rethinking the Legal Subject (Martha A. Fineman & Anna Grear eds., Ashgate 2013)
"Disability, Vulnerability, and Legal Fragmentation: Toward Accessing Education, Work, and Health Care," in Righting Educational Wrongs: Disability Studies in Law and Education (Arlene S. Kanter & Beth A. Ferri eds., Syracuse UP 2013)
"Fragmented Lives: Disability Discrimination and the Role of 'Environment-Framing,'" 68 Washington & Lee Law Review 187 (2011)
"Overcoming Fragmentation in Health and Disability Law," 60 Emory Law Journal 277 (2010) (symposium)
"Disability Discrimination After the ADA Amendments Act of 2008," 2010 Utah Law Review 983 (2010) (symposium)
"Animals as Vulnerable Subjects: Beyond Interest-Convergence, Hierarchy, and Property," 16 Animal Law Review 65 (2009)
- Reprinted in Nusbaum and Law: Philosophers and Law (Robin West ed., Ashgate 2015)
- Reprinted in International Research Group in Animal Law, The Animal, Within the Sphere of Humans’ Needs (Martine Lachance ed., 2010) [French and English volume]
"Disability, Vulnerability, and the Limits of Antidiscrimination," 83 Wash. L. Rev. 513 (2008) (symposium)
"The Limits of Health Care Reform," 59 Ala. L. Rev. 1451 (2008)
"Toward Solving the Health Care Crisis: The Paradoxical Case for Universal Access to High Technology," 8 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 93 (2008)
"Would Rosa Parks Wear Fur? Toward a Nondiscrimination Approach to Animal Welfare," 1 J. Animal L. & Ethics 101 (2006)
"A Jurisprudence of Dysfunction: On the Role of Normal Species Functioning in Disability Analysis," 6 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 221 (2006)
"The Case Against Assisted Suicide Reexamined," 100 Mich. L. Rev. 1380 (2002) (reviewing Kathleen Foley & Herbert Hendin eds., The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care (2002))
Opinions and Essays
"The Volkswagen Monkey Experiments Are Cruel and We Are All to Blame", TheHill.com, Feb. 4, 2018
"USDA Inspection Reports are Vital to Safeguard Animals," CNN.com, Feb. 20, 2017
"Gag the 'Ag-gag' Laws that Bar Undercover Recording of Cruelty to Farm Animals," Christian Science Monitor, July 5, 2013 Available here »
"Presidential Turkey Pardon: It's Time for This Thanksgiving Tradition to Go," Huffington Post Nov. 21, 2012 Available here »
"Memorial Dedication to Stephanie Feldman Aleong," 34 Nova Law Review 583 (2010)
"A Not-So Protective Law: Genetic Screening Safeguard Creates Unforeseen Inequities, Difficulties," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 27, 2008, at A13
- Reprinted in Noel Merino, Current Controversies: Human Genetics (CCHG-1) (2010)
Presentations
Panel (Speaker and Moderator), The Federalism Challenges of Protecting Workers’ Medical Privacy, Labor and Employment Workshop, Emerging Issues in Workers’ Compensation Law and Policy, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Aug. 9, 2018)
Roundtable, Health Care as Eugenics, Workshop of Labor and Employment Law Discussion Group: Recent Developments in Disability and Health Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Aug. 9, 2018)
Panel (Discussant), Animal Protection and the Myth of AWA Preemption, Works in Progress Workshop on Constitutional Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Aug. 10, 2018)
Roundtable, The Federalism Challenges of Protecting Workers’ Medical Privacy, Health Law Workshop, Discussion Group on Health Law and Bioethics, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Aug. 10, 2018)
Panel (Discussant), Labor and Employment Law Workshop, New and Established Voices in Labor and Employment Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Aug. 10, 2018)
Selected Participant, Health Care as Eugenics, Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 1, 2018)
The Role of Professionalism in Creating Resilient Societies: Critical Reflections on Vulnerability Theory, Medicine, Law, Business and the Humanities, Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (May 30, 2018)
Disparities in Access to Health Care, Legal Association for Women Students/Health Law Society, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia (Feb. 3, 2018)
Lecturer, APIH Health Law & Policy for Public Health Professionals Workshop, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Nov. 11, 2017)
Address, Exploring New Technologies in Biomedical Research, Human Toxicology Project Consortium and the Health Law, Policy & Ethics Project, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia (Oct. 23, 2017).
Panel, Without Work and Medical Privacy: HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, Workers’ Compensation, and “Symbiotic Federalism,” American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Health Law Professors Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (June 10, 2017)
Panel, "Disability and Public Health Emergencies," Defining the Gap, Minding the Gap: Law and Practice in Public Health Emergencies, Emory Law Journal’s Thrower Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia (Feb. 2, 2017)
Panel (Moderator), Bridging the Gap, Minding the Gap: Law and Practice in Public Health Emergencies, Emory Law Journal’s Thrower Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia (Feb. 2, 2017)
Panel (Discussant), Health Law Works in Progress, Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California (Jan. 5, 2017)
Panel (Moderator), Animals as Living Accommodations, Section on Animal Law, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California (Jan. 6, 2017)
Panel, "Animal Protection and the Myth of AWA Preemption," AWA Interaction with Other Laws, The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Dec. 2, 2016)
Workshop Participant, "Animal Protection and the Myth of AWA Preemption," The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Dec. 1, 2016)
Panel, "Without Work and Medical Privacy: HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, Workers’ Compensation, and the Challenges of Federalism," Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida (Aug. 2016)
Participant, Works in Progress, "Without Work and Medical Privacy: HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, Workers’ Compensation, and the Challenges of Federalism," Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida (Aug. 2016)
Panel (Discussant), Works in Progress: New Voices in Labor and Employment Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida (Aug. 2016)
Speaker, "Animals as Vulnerable Subjects," Pawsitive Outreach, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (Oct. 16, 2015)
Panel (Discussant), Works in Progress: New Voices in Labor and Employment Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida (July 31, 2015)
Roundtable, "Disability Accommodations after the ADA’s 2008 Amendments," Current Issues in Accommodations Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida (July 31, 2015)
Panel, "Without Work and Medical Privacy: HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, Workers Compensation, and the Challenges of Federalism," Regulating Healthcare, Securing Access, Law & Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington (May 29, 2015)
Panel (Discussant), "Law’s Promise for Disability Rights: Rethinking Justice, Equality, and Social Movements," Law & Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington (May 28, 2015)
Panel (Moderator), Health Law Words in Progress, Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (January 3, 2015)
Panel, "HIPAA and Workers Compensation," Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida (August 1-2, 2014)
Panel, "Fragmentation after Health Care Reform," Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida (August 1-2, 2014)
Roundtable, "Hot Issues in Law and Bioethics," Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida (Aug. 2, 2014)
Panel, "Health Care Fragmentation after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, ACA Implementation—Some Initial Observations and Critiques," Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida (Aug. 1, 2014)
Panel, "Health Care as Eugenics," Legal Influences on Bioethics, Patient Autonomy, and Inequality, Law & Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 29-June 1, 2014)
Panel (Discussant), Vulnerability and the Human Condition, Law & Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 29-June 1, 2014)
Guest Lecture, "Physician and Institutional Obligations to Provide Care," University Class: SICK, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (Mar. 20, 2014)
Disability Scholars Showcase, "Disability Discrimination," Disability Studies Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (Mar. 5, 2014)
Panel (Moderator), Program on Sustainability and Health, Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New York, N.Y. (Jan. 4, 2014) (participated remotely)
Media Appearances
Interview, WABE 90.1 FM (NPR), Morning Edition, June 17, 2015 (Lowe v.Atlas Logistics Group Retail Services, LLC)
Interview, in Paige Parvin, "The Public Health Law Puzzle: In an Emergency, How Do the Pieces of Public Health Law Fit Together?" Emory Lawyer, Winter 2015, at 5-7
Quote, in Animal Legal Defense Fund News Release, Animal Advocates Push Back Against State Attempt to Shut Down Historic Ag-Gag Lawsuit: Utah’s Controversial Law Stirs Public Criticism for Violating Freedom of Speech, Oct. 15, 2013
Feature, "Constructing Legal Structures to Protect the Vulnerable," Emory Insights 6, Summer 2012
Interview, WGST 92.3 FM, May 23, 2012 (disability service animal case)
Interview, in John Carey, "Cat Fight: The Uncertain Legal Status of Cats," in Conservation Magazine 37, Spring 2012