Author

Scott Burris

  • Health Law Policy

    Yet Another Look at Health Law Citations

    A down and dirty look at citations beyond Westlaw journals using Google Scholar profiles.

    Yet Another Look at Health Law Citations

    By

    Scott Burris

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  • Criminal Law

    Security and Health: Police as Key Players in Public Health

    A global set of authors make the case that military and police forces should be recognized as key players, rather than intruders, in public health.

    Security and Health: Police as Key Players in Public Health

    By

    Scott Burris

    Image of the backs of two police officers
  • Empirical

    Health Law Scholar Citation Rankings: A Better Picture This Year

    By Scott Burris Glenn and Mark have done their bit for benchmarking our field with another round of health law professor rankings. It is a largely thankless task, so thank you professors.  Last year, I…

    Health Law Scholar Citation Rankings: A Better Picture This Year

    By

    Scott Burris

  • Health Law Policy

    Zombie Ideas: Safe Injection Department

    Recently, people in Vermont have been talking about launching a Safe Injection Facility (SIF) to address drug harms arising with the opioid epidemic. With more deaths than ever, trying new approaches make sense — especially…

    Zombie Ideas: Safe Injection Department

    By

    Scott Burris

  • 2016 Election

    Sentinel Policy Surveillance: A New Front in Legal Epidemiology?

    Paul Erwin, Associate Editor of the American Journal of Public Health, recently wrote about the establishment of a  Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance System for Policy Change Impact,  or what might be called “sentinel policy surveillance.” The network of…

    Sentinel Policy Surveillance: A New Front in Legal Epidemiology?

    By

    Scott Burris

  • Bioethics

    Health Law Rankings — Another Perspective

    Glenn and Mark recently published a list of most-cited health law scholars, using the methods generally used for these studies in legal academia.  Like any academic who steadfastly denigrates the importance of lists, I naturally…

    Health Law Rankings — Another Perspective

    By

    Scott Burris

  • Behavioral Economics

    Making a Moral Case for Regulation

    Valerie Braithwaite’s chapter in the ANU’s Press’s new Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications provides a general introduction to looking at regulation through a social lens.  If regulation is so great, she asks, why do so many…

    Making a Moral Case for Regulation

    By

    Scott Burris

  • Health Law Policy

    Fantastic New Resource on Regulation

    Peter Drahos and a roster of the minds that have made RegNet at the Australian National University the hub of regulatory research and theory have put (it seems) all they know into a new, FREE…

    Fantastic New Resource on Regulation

    By

    Scott Burris

  • HIV/AIDS

    Human Rights Advocacy under Attack

    One of the world’s most important human rights law firms is now under attack from a government whose leader has, to put it mildly, a mixed record on human rights.  The firm is the Lawyer’s…

    Human Rights Advocacy under Attack

    By

    Scott Burris