5+ hour, 12+ min ago  (451+ words) Is a 10-year-old capable of understanding their Miranda rights? What about an 8-year-old? This is an age-old policy question: How do we determine the right age cutoffs? In my current work on a paper examining the adequacy of existing protections…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (369+ words) In July 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACt HR) issued Advisory Opinion OC-32/25on the climate emergency, one of themost comprehensivejudicial pronouncements on climate change to date. Within this broader doctrinal landscape, this post focuses on a key contribution of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (670+ words) In a recent episode of HBO's hit medical procedural show The Pitt, two agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enter the emergency department. The agents'arrive'with a detainee named Pranita, claiming that she injured her shoulder from a fall. Dr....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (273+ words) If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment " as well as the prison." Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Why a nation punishes its citizens says much about its values. Even as sweeping…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (265+ words) In his new book The Conscience of Care, Dov Fox explores the concept of medical conscience through controversies around health care services like'IVF, IUDs, opioids, gender affirming care, psychedelics, organ transplants, and advance directives. In conversation with Petrie-Flom Center Faculty…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (252+ words) The Petrie Flom Center'recently welcomed'Dov Fox, Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego School of Law, to discuss his new book.' Professor Fox was joined by…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (386+ words) Somewhere along the way, medicine made a quiet but consequential mistake. We invented a term called'Full Code.' We allowed a default checkbox, disguised as patient autonomy, to become a moral imperative. We allowed the question'can we do this?'to eclipse…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (366+ words) In June 2025 the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the'Commissioner's National Priority Voucher Program'(CNPV), billing the initiative as "accelerated drug review for companies supporting U. S. national interests." Faster pathways to market for valuable therapies can benefit'both patients and industry.'But…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (443+ words) As part of a recent effort to simplify and harmonize its digital framework, the European Union (EU) is considering two interlinked regulatory proposals that could fundamentally reshape the governance of artificial intelligence(AI) in medical devices. Second, the Commission in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (529+ words) Petrie-Flom Center Can Pharma Companies Reverse String of Judicial Defeats at SCOTUS? Following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) provision granting Medicare the authority to negotiate drug prices, pharmaceutical companies and allied organizations have brought a dozen lawsuits…...