Publications

Journal Articles

Privately-Crafted Obligations, 78 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)

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Law's Meaning, 101 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)

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Fiduciary Standards, 51 ACTEC L.J. (forthcoming 2026)

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Executor Discretion, 110 Iowa L. Rev. 1323 (2025)

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Love, Liberalism, Substituted Judgment, 99 Ind. L. J. 1289 (2024)

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Advance Medical Decision-making Differs Across First- and Third-Person Perspectives, 15 AJOB Empirical Bioethics (2024) (with Jonathan Lewis, Ivar R. Hannikainen & Brian D. Earp)

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"Religion," Before Darwin, 101 Wash. U. L. Rev. 661 (2024)

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Property's Boundaries, 109 Va. L. Rev. 130 (2023)

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The Age of Fraud, 60 Harv. J. Leg. 101 (2023)

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Evolutionary Anamnesis, 37 Biology & Phil. (2022)

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Narrative Capacity, 100 N.C. L. Rev. 1073 (2022)

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How to End Our Stories: A Study on the Perspectives of Seniors on Dementia and Decisionmaking, 29 Elder L. J. 1 (2021)

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'As Long as I'm Me' : From Personhood to Personal Identity in Dementia and Decision-Making, 4 Canadian J. Bioethics 57 (2021)

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Too Important for the Bureaucrats: Rethinking Risk and Regulatory Presumptions in Times of Crisis, 47 Am. J. L. & Med. 249 (2021)

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Constitutionalizing Nature's Law: Dignity and the Regulation of Biotechnology in Switzerland, 7 J. L. & Biosciences 1 (2020)

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Understanding the Perspectives of Seniors on Dementia and Decision-Making, 12 AJOB Empirical Bioethics 101 (2020)

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Books

Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law (ed., with Marietta Auer, Paul B. Miller & Henry E. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 2025)

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Shorter Works & Chapters

Darwin's Reinach, forthcoming in Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law (Marietta Auer, Paul B. Miller, Henry E. Smith & James Toomey, eds., Cambridge University Press) (under contract)

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Paying for Healthcare and Private Law's Internal Point of View, forthcoming Health Law as Private Law (I. Glenn Cohen, Wendy Netter Epstein, Christopher Robertson & Carmel Shachar, eds., Cambridge University Press) (2025)

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The True Self and Decision-Making Capacity, 24 Am. J. Bioethics 86 (2024), Open Peer Commentary to Affect, values and problems assessing decision-making capacity, by Jennifer Hawkins

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Liberalism and Identity, 21 Am. J. Bioethics 59 (2021), Open Peer Commentary to Neutrality and Perfectionism in Public Health, by

Hafez Ismaili M'Hamdi

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Is Non-Invasive Prenatal Genetic Testing Eugenic?, Hastings Center Bioethics F. (Dec. 13, 2017)

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