Lawrence O. Gostin

Publications

• Realizing the World Health Organization’s Constitutional Mission: Equitably and Everywhere
  2025 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2025) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2025
• Imagining Global Health with Justice: Transformative Ideas for Health and Well-Being While Leaving No One Behind
  108 GEO. L.J. (2020) · Georgetown Law Journal · 2020

• Big Food and Soda Versus Public Health: Industry Litigation Against Local Government Regulations to Promote Healthy Diets
  45 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1051 (2018) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2018
• Keynote Address
  Emory Law Journal · 2017
• Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health: A Transformative Agenda for Global Health Justice
  13 YALE J. HEALTH POL'Y L. & ETHICS (2015) · Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics · 2015
• What Will It Take? Terrorism, Mass Murder, Gang Violence, and Suicides: The American Way, Or Do We Strive for a Better Way?
  47 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 555 (2014) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 2014
• The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law: Discovering Innovative Solutions for the Most Pressing Health Problems Facing the Nation and the World
  11 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 383 (2010) · Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology · 2010

• World Health Law: Toward a New Conception of Global Health Governance for the 21st Century
  5 YALE J. HEALTH POL'Y L. & ETHICS 413 (2008) · Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics · 2008
• Biosecurity under the Rule of Law
  38 CASE W. RES. J. INT'L L. 437 (2007) · Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law · 2007
• A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law
  10 J. HEALTH CARE L. & POL'Y 1 (2007) · Journal of Health Care Law and Policy · 2007
• The Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities: a Global Perspective on the Application of Human Rights Principles to Mental Health
  63 MD. L. REV. 2 (2004) · Maryland Law Review · 2004
• The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Public Health and Civil Liberties in a Time of Terrorism
  13 HEALTH MATRIX 3 (2003) · Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine · 2003
• When Terrorism Threatens Health: How Far Are Limitations on Personal and Economic Liberties Justified?
  55 FLA. L. REV. 1105 (2003) · Florida Law Review · 2003
• The Nationalization of Health Information Privacy Protection
  Connecticut Insurance Law Journal · 2002
• Balancing Communal Goods and Personal Privacy Under a National Health Informational Privacy Rule
  46 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2002) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2002
• School Vaccination Requirements: Historical, Social, and Legal Perspectives
  90 KY. L.J. (2002) · Kentucky Law Journal · 2002
• Conceptualizing the Field After September 11th: Foreword to a Symposium on Public Health Law
  90 KY. L.J. (2002) · Kentucky Law Journal · 2002
• Personal Privacy and Common Goods: A Framework for Balancing under the National Health Information Privacy Rule
  86 MINN. L. REV. 1439 (2002) · Minnesota Law Review · 2002
• Public Health Theory and Practice in the Constitutional Design
  11 HEALTH MATRIX 265 (2001) · Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine · 2001
• Surrogacy from the Perspectives of Economic and Civil LIberties
  17 J. CONTEMP. HEALTH L. & POL'Y 429 (2001) · Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy (1985-2015) · 2001
• A Civil Liberties Analysis of Surrogacy Arrangements
  17 J. CONTEMP. HEALTH L. & POL'Y 432 (2001) · Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy (1985-2015) · 2001
• The Public Health Improvement Process in Alaska: Toward a Model Public Health Law
  17 ALASKA L. REV. 77 (2000) · Alaska Law Review · 2000
• Is There a Pink Slip in My Genes? Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace
  3 J. HEALTH CARE L. & POL'Y 225 (2000) · Journal of Health Care Law and Policy · 2000
• The Constitutional Right to Die: Ethical Considerations
  12 J. CIV. RTS. & ECON. DEV. (2000) · Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development · 2000

• Piercing the Veil of Secrecy in HIV/AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Theories of Privacy and Disclosure in Partner Notification
  5 DUKE J. GENDER L. & POL'Y 9 (1998) · Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy · 1998
• Honoring Ian McColl Kennedy
  14 J. CONTEMP. HEALTH L. & POL'Y v (1997) · Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy (1985-2015) · 1997
• Privacy and Security of Health Information in the Emerging Health Care System
  5 HEALTH MATRIX 1 (1995) · Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine · 1995
• Tuberculosis and the Power of the State: Toward the Development of Rational Standards for the Review of Compulsory Public Health Powers
  2 U. CHI. L. SCH. ROUNDTABLE (1995) · The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable · 1995
• The Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemic in the Era of AIDS: Reflections on Public Health, Law, and Society
  54 MD. L. REV. 1 (1995) · Maryland Law Review · 1995
• The Americans with Disabilities act and the Corpus of anti-Discrimination Law: a Force for Change in the Future of Public Health Regulation
  3 HEALTH MATRIX 89 (1993) · Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine · 1993

• Freedom of Expression and the Mentally Disordered: Philosophical and Constitutional Perspectives
  50 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 419 (1975) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1975