Center Research Projects

The Center's research, organized into two projects, focuses on a variety of critical health law issues. A major goal is to enhance access to necessary health care of high quality for all in need. Research at the Center strives to determine how law and policy can best be reformed to achieve this goal more effectively and humanely. Much of the Center's research has been supported by grants and/or contracts with government agencies, foundations or corporations. Center Reports from these projects can be found at the page for each project, and reprints are available by contacting the Center.

• Project on Health Care and Public Policy. This project covers a variety of subjects addressing issues of health law and policy at the state, federal and international levels. Much of this research has involved administrative law issues of the health care sector and exploration of the international human right to health. Much of this research is empirical and interdisciplinary and is often supported by grants from foundations and government.

• Project on Bioethics and Law. This project primarily entails scholarly analysis of critical issues in bioethics and law, with the goals of deepening our theoretical understanding of the issues and developing public policies that enhance the possibilities for fair and just outcomes. Recent topics of study have included physician-assisted suicide, cloning, health care rationing and discrimination against persons with disabilities, financial incentives to limit care, nonprofit corporate theory and organ transplantation and a wide range of family law issues.