Two Solomon Center Fellows Named ASLME Health Law Scholars

Claudia Haupt, Solomon Center Graduate Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law, and Megan Wright, Solomon Center Research Fellow and Senior Advisor, are two of four health law scholars selected for this year’s Health Law Scholars Workshop. Announced at the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics’ annual Health Law Professor Conference, the competitively selected scholars are invited to present and workshop their research in progress and receive in-depth advice from experienced health law academics.

“This is one of the highest honors for junior health law scholars and it is a huge success that two of the four people selected are Solomon Center Fellows,” said Katherine Kraschel, Executive Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy.

Recipients are selected based upon abstract submissions. Haupt’s work focuses on the intersections of free speech and medical care, and her abstract proposed considering the role of artificial intelligence in the physician-patient relationship. Also affiliated with the Information Society Project, Haupt’s paper will examine decision-support software or predictive advice-generating algorithms in medical advice giving in the context of “algorithmic governance” as described by Yale Law School Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Jack Balkin.

Wright’s work centers around patient decision-making. Her abstract proposes to consider the emerging model of supported decision-making for persons with disabilities as an alternative to surrogate decision-making for patients with dementia. She argues that supported decision-making is a way to promote agency and self-determination for this patient population.