Learn more about current and past staff of the 软妹社 Journal of Health Law and Policy and how you can join.
Joining Staff
Election to the staff of the 软妹社 Journal of Health Law and Policy is based on an application process and review that is conducted by the editorial board and faculty advisers in the spring semester each year.
To be eligible for the editorial staff:
- Students must have completed two semesters of law school and both semesters of the legal research and writing course.
- The Journal of Health Law and Policy will hold an orientation meeting each spring to review the application process with students interested in applying.
- During the first year on the staff, each member is required to write a publishable paper on a health law topic and selected members' papers will be published.
Published Staff Members
Notes and comments from staff members have appeared in recent volumes of the journal.
Rachel N. Reeder -- EMTALA Preemption of State Laws Restricting Emergency Abortions
Jos茅 M. Sandoval Jr. -- 鈥淭he People鈥� Getting Sick of Orders: Legislative Vetoes and Checks and Balances
Madeline C. Tatro -- The Shifting Landscape of Substantive Due Process: Could鈥� Dobbs鈥� Pose a Threat to鈥疌ontraceptive Rights?
Helen S. Webster -- The Future of Jacobson v. Massachusetts and Modern Substantive Due Process for Public Health Preparedness
Jemalyn A. Harvey -- Preventing Maternal Deaths: A Critical Feminist Approach to Maternal Mortality in the United States
Abigail Jaeger -- Inefficacy of the Transparency in Coverage Final Rule in Promoting Cost-Effective Choices
Alexandra M. Robbins -- Who Pays First?: Medicaid Third-Party Liability in Florida and Virginia鈥檚 Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Programs
Mary E. Quandt -- Making Rights Meaningful: Advocating for Simple Changes in Federal Agency Practice to Promote Health Equity
Hiba B. Al-Ramahi -- The Impact of Bostock v. Clayton County on Access to Health Care for LGBTQ Persons
Jessie L. Bekker -- Finding the Cluster: Balancing Privacy and Public Health Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brenna M. Moreno -- 鈥淲oman Enough鈥� to Win? An Analysis of Sex Testing in College Athletics
Michael J. Schellhous -- Improving Access to Emerging Lifesaving Drugs: Solving the Disclosure Problem Within the Patent Dance
Gabriella Garbero -- Rights Not Fundamental: Disability and the Right to Marry
Megan K. Hart -- Expanding Patient Access to Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Through Incentive Regimes
Anam A. Khan -- Enforcing the 鈥淪afe and Sanitary鈥� Environment Standard Within U.S. Detention Facilities to Save Children鈥檚 Lives
Patrick Monahan -- The Legal and Ethical Considerations of the Posthumous Retrieval of Gametes
Allison Michelle Bowen -- The Importance of Standardized Data Collection and Reporting in Improving Medical Care for Immigration Detainees
Ashton K. Dietrich -- Hypothesizing a Small Opioid MDL Settlement: An Argument for Local Public Health Action and Lessons from Big Tobacco
Rachael Elyse Palmer -- Painfully Prescribed: Could Taking Opioids as Legal Treatment Result in Discrimination Uncovered by the ADA?
Kylie A. Thompson -- Taking the Politics Out of Vaccines: Increasing Vaccination Rates Without Repealing Exemptions
Madhav Y. Bhatt -- A State鈥檚 Effort to Enhance Health Care: Empowering Pharmacists with Prescribing Authority
Colleen A. Kinsey -- Law Enforcement and Executive Order: Duplication in Missouri鈥檚 Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Lauren E. Pair -- Stretching Armstrong: How the Eighth Circuit Incorrectly Applied Supreme Court Precedent in Does v. Gillespie
Stephen M. Scannell -- Medical Marijuana and the ADA: Following the Path Blazed by State Courts to Extend Protection
- Stefanie G. Brody - 鈥淲orking Well(ness): The Impact of the ADA Final Rule on Wellness Program Regulation and a Proposal for a Zero Incentive Rule鈥�
- Jordan A. Butler - 鈥淔inding an Unlikely Combatant in the War Against Ransomware: The HIPAA Omnibus Amendments and Off-Site Data Backup鈥�
- Merlow M. Dunham - 鈥淎voiding Sticker Shock: Legislative Approaches to Protect Consumers from Surprise Medical Bills鈥�
- Caitlan E. Grombka-Murphy - 鈥淥verlapping and Concurrent Surgeries: An Analysis of Informed Consent When There Is Incomplete Risk Information鈥�
- Molly Anderson - 鈥淓vidence-Based Public Health is the Answer to Increasing American Childhood Vaccination Rates, Not Legislative Fortitude鈥�
- Erin Grant - 鈥淏elling the Cat: Implementation of a Prospective Payment System of Reimbursement for Critical Access Hospitals, Its Likely Success, and Political Implications of this Policy鈥�
- Tyler Klein - 鈥淎ntitrust Enforcement Against Pharmaceutical Product Hopping: Protecting Consumers or Reaching Too Far?鈥�
- Elizabeth Tucker - 鈥淎dding Insult to Injury: How the ACA鈥檚 鈥淔ix鈥� for Nursing Home Compare Staffing Data Misses the Mark鈥�
- Maddie Bainer - 鈥淢ergers and Monopolies: An Examination of the Cyclical Effect of Anti-Competition and a Lack of Rate Regulation in Health Care鈥�
- Alex Dansicker - 鈥淧aying Docs for End-of-Life Discussions: Can Monetary Incentives Change the Failures Inherent with Physician-Patient Communications?鈥�
- Tyler Dinkelaker - 鈥淎 False Sense of Safety: How the Drug Quality and Security Act Fails to Protect Patients from Harm鈥�
- Matt Westbrook - 鈥淭ransforming the Physician's Standard of Care in the Context of Whole Genome Sequencing Technologies: Finding Guidance in Best Practice Standards鈥�
- Mayo Alao - 鈥淭hirty-Eight Years and Counting: The FDA鈥檚 Misuse of the 510(k) Notification Process and Consequent Under-Regulation of Implantable Medical Devices鈥�
- Kalle Elizabeth Deyette - 鈥淗itech Act: Building an Infrastructure for Health Information Organizations and a New Health Care Delivery System鈥�
- Peter J. Eggers - 鈥淒isclosure for Closure? Why the Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol Process Paired with the 60-Day Overpayment Rule Creates More Headaches Than Solutions鈥�
- Rachel A. Polzin - 鈥淪hort-Stay, Under Observation, or Inpatient Admission?鈥擧ow CMS鈥� Two Midnight Rule Creates More Confusion & Concern鈥�