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Nadia Sawicki

  • Bioethics

    Birth Plans as Advance Directives

    By Nadia N. Sawicki There is growing public recognition that women’s autonomy rights during labor and delivery are being routinely violated. Though such violations rarely rise to the level of egregious obstetric violence I described…

    Birth Plans as Advance Directives

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Obstetric Battery

    By Nadia N. Sawicki In 2013, Kimberly Turbin came to Providence Tarzana Medical Center for a momentous occasion – the birth of her first child. In the delivery room, she was surrounded by supportive family members.…

    Obstetric Battery

  • Announcements

    Call for Proposals: BioIP Faculty Workshop

    The American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) is pleased to announce the second annual bioIP Faculty Workshop on May 5, 2017 at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law in Chicago, IL. The…

    Call for Proposals: BioIP Faculty Workshop

  • Announcements

    Call for Proposals: Innovations in Life Sciences and Stakeholder and Agency Responses

    The Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Annals of Health Law invite original research paper submissions on innovations in life sciences and stakeholder and agency responses…

    Call for Proposals: Innovations in Life Sciences and Stakeholder and Agency Responses

  • Announcements

    Hiring Announcement: Loyola University Chicago Beazley Institute for Health Law

    Loyola University Chicago School of Law is pleased to invite applications for a full-time tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor with expertise in health law, beginning in fall 2016. We seek a scholar-teacher whose…

    Hiring Announcement: Loyola University Chicago Beazley Institute for Health Law

  • Contraceptive Coverage

    Limited Access to Contraceptives in Illinois

    By Alexandra Gross What does “access” really mean for the purposes of PPACA’s contraceptive coverage mandate? For two years, I’ve been enrolled in Loyola University of Chicago’s Student Health Insurance Plan, provided through a Blue…

    Limited Access to Contraceptives in Illinois

  • Conscience

    On Agency Accommodations and Least Restrictive Alternatives

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Did HHS shoot itself in the foot by providing an accommodation to religious non-profits? In holding that the contraceptive mandate imposed by HHS on Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood was not the…

    On Agency Accommodations and Least Restrictive Alternatives

  • First Amendment

    Sincerity and Religious Belief in Hobby Lobby

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Courts evaluating First Amendment and RFRA claims have long held that they are in no position to evaluate the validity, centrality, or reasonableness of a claimant’s sincere religious beliefs. And while there…

    Sincerity and Religious Belief in Hobby Lobby

  • Clinical Research

    “That’s a Lot of Marijuana”

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Earlier this month, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued notice that it would be increasing the 2014 production quota for marijuana from 21 kilograms to 650 kilograms – an almost 3000% increase.…

    “That’s a Lot of Marijuana”

  • Nadia Sawicki

    How Medicine Learns About the Law

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Many medical providers learn about the law the way kids learn about sex – whispers with friends, internet message boards, and media depictions of the most dramatic and unrealistic kind. And while…

    How Medicine Learns About the Law