The Fall 2025 issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics went live on September 15, 2025. Print subscribers should receive their issues in the next few weeks. If you are an ASLME member, log in to this website, go to Member Home, and click on “Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics” to access all articles in the issue.
Authors with a red circle (🔴) preceding their name are ASLME members.
The issue features the following articles:
Symposium: Public Health, Markets, and Law
Guest Edited by Mina Hosseini and Imelda Maher
EU’s Extraterritorial Obligations for Global Medicine Access Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CPRD)
Katrina Perehudoff
Trust Beyond Borders: European External Regulatory Influence on Access to Medicines
Primitive Parwani, Katrina Perehudoff, and Annie de Ruijter
Abuse of Dominant Position, Effective Judicial Protection and Abuse of Procedure
Carmen de Vivero de Porras and Enrique Sanjuán y Muñoz
Competition Law and Ethics of Innovation as Catalysts for Fairness: Reimagining the EU’s COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy
Mina Hosseini
Wrestling the Two-Headed Hydra: On the Consequences of the Bifurcated Concept of “Undertaking” in EU Competition Law
Łukasz Grzejdziak
Independent Articles
Compassionate Release and COVID-19: Analyzing Inconsistent Applications of the First Step Act by Federal Courts
Helen Mooney, Kayla Larkin, and Mara Howard-Williams
Commentary
Grappling with Judicial Discretion in Complex Times
Samantha Bent Weber
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pronatalism: A Disingenuous Policy that Harms the Health of People and Society
Rasadokht Forati and Deborah Bartz
Commentary
Futile and Harmful “Pronatalism” in the Post-Dobbs United States
🔴Susannah Baruch
Psychiatrists’ Awareness and Use of Voluntary Self-Prohibition as a Firearm Suicide Prevention Tool in Virginia
Bryan Barks, Shannon Frattaroli, and Paul S. Nestadt
Commentary
Mitigating Firearm Suicide with Trusted Messengers in Health Care
🔴Michael R. Ulrich, Cassandra Devaney
Walking Backward to Ensure Risk Management of Large Language Models in Medicine
Daria Onitiu, Sandra Wachter, and Brent Mittelstadt
Commentary
Do Specialized Medical LLMs Demand a Radically New Approach Under the EU’s Medical Device Regulation?
Hannah Louise Smith, 🔴W. Nicholson Price II
An Analysis of Anti-Bullying Laws in the United States
Dane Alexander White, Gabrielle F. Miller, Kyle Rosenblum, Christopher Dunphy, Riley Wagner, Molly Merrill-Francis
Commentary
The Evolution and Limitations of Anti-Bullying Laws
Emily Suski
Columns
Public Health and the Law
“Everything is Tuberculosis” – Except the Law?
🔴James G. Hodge, Jr.
Health Policy Portal
Advance Market Commitments and Their Role in Public Innovation
Sarosh Nagar, Anil Cacodcar, 🔴Aaron S. Kesselheim
Global Health Law
Expanding the Core Foundations of Global Health Law through a Pandemic Agreement
Pedro A. Villarreal
Currents in Contemporary Bioethics
Maintaining the Integrity of the Biomedical Research Record Through Timely, Appropriate Corrective Action
Lauren Walsh, Minal Caron, Carolyn T. Lye, Mark Barnes, Barbara E. Bierer
