This list includes a selection of the latest research on medical law posted to SSRN in 2025-2026.

• The Neuroscience of Brain Injury in Criminal Cases: An International Scope by Deborah W. Denno (Fordham University)
  
• Expand Right to Die Options for Older Americans: Eleven Ways to Avoid Late-Stage Dementia by Thaddeus Mason Pope (Mitchell Hamline School of Law)
  
• Data Distortions by David A. Simon (Northeastern University)
  
• Putting the L in ELSI: Legal Methods for Bioethics Research by Anya Prince (University of Iowa), Benjamin Berkman (National Institutes of Health), Donald L. Ford (University of Iowa), Dov Fox (University of San Diego), Christi Guerrini (Mid Sweden University), Amy Koopmann (University of Iowa), Natalie Ram (University of Maryland), Jessica L. Roberts (Emory University), Kayte Spector-Bagdady (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor), & Sonia M. Suter (George Washington University)
  
• IVF as a ‘Hope Technology’ by Emily Jackson (London School of Economics)
  
• A Non-Person Theory of the Fetus by Greer Donley (University of Pittsburgh)
  
• Patient Records to Client Files: How the Legal Profession’s Confidentiality Standards Can Inform Healthcare Corporations’ Approach to Artificial Intelligence to Minimize HIPAA Violations by Parker Brown (University of Mississippi)
  
• Unwanted Pregnancy: Sex, Contraception, and the Limits of Consent by Deborah Tuerkheimer (Northwestern University)
  
• Putting an End to Protective Privilege: Georgia Should Recognize the Psychotherapist’s Duty to Warn by Jan M. Levine (Duquesne University)
  
• The Weight of Stigma by Rebekah A. King (Saint Louis University) & Michael S. Sinha (Saint Louis University)
  
• Health Care Financialization by Erin C. Fuse Brown (Brown University) & Hayden Rooke-Ley (Brown University)
  
• Abortion Shield Laws in Action by David S. Cohen (Drexel University), Greer Donley (University of Pittsburgh), & Rachel Rebouché (University of Texas at Austin)
  
• (Un)Common Knowledge & Experience by Jasmine Harris (University of Pennsylvania)
  
• Euthanasia as Medical Therapy in Canada by Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto)
  
• It’s Magic?: Ozempic, Addiction Treatment, and the Law by Andy Grewal (University of Iowa)

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