Law Journals

Fifty Years After Estelle v. Gamble — Where Does Carceral Health Law Go from Here?, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2026), with James R. Jolin and Jenean Docter.

Prevention Beyond Deterrence, Emory Law Journal (2026).

Disability, Race, and Health Beyond the Carceral State, Michigan Law Review (2024), with Craig Konnoth and Michael Ashley Stein. Reviewing Mary Crossley, Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health (2022).

Internet Drug Prohibition and the Opioid Overdose Crisis, Washington Law Review (2024).

Improving Labor Outcomes among People with Mild or Moderate Mental Illness through Law and Policy Reform, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2023), with Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied.

Neuroscience, Criminal Legal Capacity, and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Journal of Law and the Biosciences (2023), with Michael Ashley Stein.

Dual Federalism, Constitutional Openings, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2022).

Health Policy, Medical Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health

Regulating Artificial Intelligence Design to Prevent Youth Mental Health Harms, JAMA Health Forum (2026), with Ryan K. McBain, Jonathan H. Cantor, and Li Ang Zhang.

Addressing In-Hospital Substance Use: A Bioethical Evaluation of Two Possible Approaches, Journal of Hospital Medicine (2026), with John C. Messinger, Taylor Baisey, Johanna Sluser, Marlene Martin, and Leslie W. Suen.

Expansion of Involuntary Treatment for Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder: Experience with California’s New Law, American Journal of Public Health (2026), with John Messinger, David Elkin, Leslie Suen, Luther Arms, and Anne Rosenthal.

Medical Standards by Federal Fiat, New England Journal of Medicine (2026), with Brendan Reid and Christopher T. Robertson.

Medicaid Expansion and Mortality Among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, JAMA Health Forum (2026), with Mark Soto, Benjamin A. Howell, and Meredith B. Rosenthal.

Case v. Montana and the Future of Behavioral Health Crisis Response, Psychiatric Services (2026), with Ji Seon Song, Morgan C. Shields, and Enrico Castillo.

The Executive Order on “Crime and Disorder”: An Affront to Policy, Law, and Ethics, Psychiatric Services (2026), with Arthur L. Caplan and Dominic A. Sisti.

When Profit Meets Public Health: Private Equity in Methadone Treatment, International Journal of Drug Policy (2026), with Victor Roy, Erin C. Fuse Brown, and Leslie W. Suen.

Improving Electronic Health Record Access for People Incarcerated in the United States, Journal of Correctional Health Care (2025), with Caitlin Farrell, Alice Bukhman, Nishi Kumar, Mark Fenig, and William Weber.

Religious Liberty as a Shield for Public Health — The Case of Overdose-Prevention Centers, New England Journal of Medicine (2025), with Adi Caplan-Bricker and Christopher T. Robertson.

A Call for Formal Reporting Standards for Legal Research in Public Health Studies, American Journal of Public Health (2025), with Cason D. Schmit et al.

Reevaluating State Medicaid Waivers Targeting the Reentry Population, JAMA Health Forum (2025), with James René Jolin and Meredith B. Rosenthal.

Treatment Initiations and Opioid Overdoses Among Recently Incarcerated People After Adoption of the Take-Home Methadone Policy, Drug and Alcohol Dependence (2025), with Shapei Yan and Meredith B. Rosenthal.

Characteristics of ACO-Affiliated Organizations Offering Methadone to Patients with Opioid Use Disorder, Health Affairs Scholar (2025), with Maia Crawford, Haiden A. Huskamp, Mary F. Brunette, and Ellen Meara.

Medicaid Cuts Could Especially Harm Persons Needing Home-Based Supports, JAMA (2025), with Michael Ashley Stein and Lisa I. Iezzoni.

Improving the Transparency of Legal Measurement in Health Policy Evaluation: A Guide for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors, JAMA Health Forum (2025), with Alina Schnake-Mahl, Cason Schmit, and Scott Burris.

Access to Care and Outcomes with the Affordable Care Act for Persons with Criminal Legal Involvement: A Scoping Review, JAMA Health Forum (2024), with James René Jolin, Carrie G. Wade, and Meredith B. Rosenthal.

Reducing Disparities Through Online Accessibility Information, JAMA Health Forum (2024), with Michael Ashley Stein and Lisa I. Iezzoni.

Rates of Opioid Overdose Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Individuals Released from Prison, JAMA Health Forum (2023), with Devon Dunn, Elizabeth A. Erdman, James René Jolin, and Meredith B. Rosenthal.

Expiration of State Licensure Waivers and Out-of-State Telemedicine Relationships, JAMA Network Open (2023), with Eric Bressman, Rachel Werner, Daniel Cullen, Benjamin Ukert, Jennifer Kowalski, and Ateev Mehrotra.

State Policies Could Impede New Efforts to Increase Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, JAMA Health Forum (2023), with Ateev Mehrotra and Haiden A. Huskamp.

Patient and Clinician Characteristics Associated with Use of Telemedicine for Buprenorphine Induction among Medicare Beneficiaries, Journal of General Internal Medicine (2022), with Sadiq Y. Patel, Esteban G. Ortiz, Haiden A. Huskamp, Alisa B. Busch, and Ateev Mehrotra.

Ending Restrictive Housing in Prisons for People with Mental Disorders, Psychiatric Services (2022).

Use of Telemedicine for Buprenorphine Inductions in Patients with Commercial Insurance or Medicare, JAMA Network Open (2022), with Alisa B. Busch, Sadiq Y. Patel, Ateev Mehrotra, and Haiden A. Huskamp.

Vaccination Plus Decarceration — Stopping Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons, New England Journal of Medicine (2021), with Eric Reinhart, Paul Farmer, and Salmaan Keshavjee.

Expanding Therapeutic Jurisprudence Across the Federal Judiciary, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (2021), with Heather Ellis Cucolo and Dominic A. Sisti.

Selected Policy Reports

A New Foundation for Justice, Safety, and Equity: Key Principles, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (2021), with Danielle S. Allen, David J. Knight, and Lily Jacobs.

Addressing the Public Health Crisis of U.S. Carceral Facilities: An Integrated and Equitable Approach, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (2021), with David J. Knight.

Improving Criminal Justice Outcomes through Mental Health Court Development, Report to the Office of the Bucks County District Attorney, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (2020), with Cheyney Dobson, Dominic A. Sisti, and John Hollway.

Opioid Treatment Cost Analysis in Baltimore, Report to Behavioral Health System Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2015), with Pierre K. Alexandre and Cameron F. Hayes.

Selected Public Scholarship and Other Writings

The Present — and Future — of Alternatives to Police, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School (March 16, 2026).

Internet Prescription, Federalism, and the Opioid Crisis, in The Judges’ Book (Scott Dodson ed., 2025).

The New Carceral Public Health Law, LPE Blog (March 24, 2025), with Richard M. Weinmeyer.

Prescribing Buprenorphine by Telehealth: Lessons from San Francisco Amidst a Changing Regulatory Landscape, Health Affairs Forefront (March 4, 2025), with Jeffrey K. Hom, Hillary Kunins, Leslie W. Suen, Donna Hilliard, Sneha Patil, and Christine Soran.

Expanding Health Insurance for Formerly Incarcerated People, The Commonwealth Fund (January 29, 2025), with James René Jolin and Meredith B. Rosenthal.

Community Integration of People with Disabilities a Quarter Century After Olmstead v. L.C., Harvard Law Review Blog (January 8, 2025), with Michael Ashley Stein and Lisa I. Iezzoni.

Law Enforcement Interventionism as Determinant of Decision-Making among Resuscitated Opioid Users, American Journal of Bioethics (2024).

Psychiatric Restraint Use as Carceral State Practice, Psychiatric Services (2024), with Morgan C. Shields.

Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering, Bill of Health, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School (September 6, 2022), with Chloe Reichel. Guest editor of the online symposium.

Disability Accommodations at Sentencing to Divert Persons with Mental Illness Away from Prison, ABA Criminal Justice (Summer 2022), with Michael Ashley Stein and Harold J. Bursztajn.

Redefining International Mental Health Care in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, in Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights (Michael Ashley Stein et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021), with Julie Hannah and Dainius Pūras.

Covid-19, Decarceration, and Bending the Arc of Justice — The Promise of Medical-Legal Partnerships, Health Affairs Forefront (May 28, 2021), with Sunny Y. Kung and Monik C. Jiménez.

The Need for Vaccine Regulation Overhaul, The Regulatory Review (August 15, 2019).

Making Law Student Mental Health a Priority, The Regulatory Review (May 15, 2019), with Theodore W. Ruger.

How FDA Drug Review Contributed to the Opioid Epidemic, The Regulatory Review (January 24, 2019).

How American Cities and States Comply with International Disability Law, Global Affairs Review (June 28, 2018).