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James Toomey

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Assisted Reproduction Technologies

December 8, 2024

Pace Law Review Symposium Edition: “Bioethics After Dobbs”

By James Toomey On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the canonical precedent Roe v. Wade and holding that the federal constitution does not protect the right…

Pace Law Review Symposium Edition: “Bioethics After Dobbs”
Bioethics

September 12, 2024

Love and Liberalism in Surrogate Decision-Making

By James Toomey If you are supposed to make a legally binding decision on behalf of someone incapacitated by dementia, chances are the law will tell you to apply the “substituted judgment” standard—you will be…

Love and Liberalism in Surrogate Decision-Making
Bioethics

September 11, 2024

Capacity and Medical Decision-Making in First- and Third-Person Perspectives

By James Toomey Imagine that you were to develop dementia and someone else had to make medical decisions on your behalf. How would you want them to decide? Then suppose that you had to make…

Capacity and Medical Decision-Making in First- and Third-Person Perspectives