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  • Data Privacy

    Rethinking Maryland v. King Amid the Changing Landscape of Technology and Privacy

    In a landmark 2013 decision, Maryland v. King, the Supreme Court upheld mandatory DNA collection from arrestees as part of booking procedures, likening cheek swabs to fingerprinting. But 13 years later, renewed public concern about genetic…

    Rethinking Maryland v. King Amid the Changing Landscape of Technology and Privacy

  • Liability

    Snow Shovel Politics

    Boston is slowly waking from its snowy slumber. Weeks after one of the snowiest storms in the city’s history, drifts still rise several feet along streets and sidewalks as residents pick their way through narrowed passages and over…

    Snow Shovel Politics

  • Medicare/Medicaid

    Why It Matters: HR1’s Change to Medicaid Waiver Budget Neutrality Rules

    The 2025 budget reconciliation bill (“HR1” or “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) significantly amended Medicaid, the federal public health insurance program for low-income people. HR1 has garnered significant attention surrounding new rules like work reporting requirements that…

    Why It Matters: HR1’s Change to Medicaid Waiver Budget Neutrality Rules

  • Mental Health

    The Deadly Cost of Ignoring Clinical Need

    Iryna Zarutska immigrated to North Carolina in August 2022, fleeing war-torn Ukraine. Exactly three years later, she was taking the subway home from a shift at a local Charlotte pizzeria when, abruptly, Decarlos Brown fatally stabbed…

    The Deadly Cost of Ignoring Clinical Need

  • Supreme Court

    Voting Rights in Jeopardy: Implications for Health Care Disparities

    Health care is consistently ranked among the top concerns of the nation’s voters. A special issue for health care voters is electing candidates who are committed to making high-quality health care accessible and affordable to all.

    Voting Rights in Jeopardy: Implications for Health Care Disparities

  • Disability

    The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America

    On Aug. 7, 2025, with Advisory Opinion OC-31/25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights took a decisive step by becoming the first international court to recognize the human right to care as an autonomous right.

    The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America

  • Psychedelics & Drug Policy

    Regulating Psilocybin as Food, Not Drugs

    Psilocybin should be regulated under food law rather than drug law. Doing so would serve public health, individual autonomy, and regulatory coherence.

    Regulating Psilocybin as Food, Not Drugs

  • Research Misconduct

    It’s Time to Safeguard Genomic Data

    On Jan. 24, 2026, the New York Times reported that DNA sequences contributed by children and families to support a federal effort to understand adolescent brain development were later co-opted by other researchers and used to publish “race…

    It’s Time to Safeguard Genomic Data

  • Scientific Evidence

    Hamm v. Smith: The Limits of Legal Certainty when Science Evolves

    Can states keep IQ testing people sentenced to death until they get the “right” score for execution? What is really at the heart of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on executing people who have an intellectual…

    Hamm v. Smith: The Limits of Legal Certainty when Science Evolves