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When aging America collides with climate change During and after disasters, the elderly are the most vulnerable

Check out the new @salonnewsroom.bsky.social op-ed by @solomonctryls.bsky.social Senior Fellow Eugene Rusyn and Yale Law School Professor Douglas Kysar about the unique vulnerabilities ageing populations face as the climate changes and how policymakers should respond. www.salon.com/2025/08/07/w...

Hospital Performance, Nursing Resources, and Health... : Nursing Research COVID-19. Objectives Our objectives were (a) to identify high- and low-performing hospitals on COVID-19 inpatient mortality and describe their distinguishing organizational characteristics, includi...

In a new article for Nursing Research, @solomonctryls.bsky.social faculty affiliate Shelli Feder and her co-authors examine how differences in hospital performance contributed to mortality disparities among socially vulnerable patients hospitalized with COVID-19. journals.lww.com/nursingresea...

What Stands in the Way of Abundance in Healthcare? Recent public initiatives to manufacture insulin highlight both the promise and pitfalls of the new politics of “abundance.” Although states are capable of producing high-quality, affordable medicines...

In her latest post for @lpeblog.bsky.social, @solomonctryls.bsky.social faculty affiliate @akapczynski.bsky.social discusses her new research paper, which explores how states can overcome legal obstacles to the public production of life-saving medicines. lpeproject.org/blog/what-st...

Congratulations to @solomonctryls.bsky.social faculty affiliate Mark Mercurio on being appointed the inaugural Executive Director of the new Center for Pediatric Bioethics @bostonchildrens.bsky.social! Mark will be dearly missed but we are very proud of him! go.childrenshospital.org/mark-r.-merc...

🚨 Check out @solomonctryls.bsky.social Faculty Director @abbegluck.bsky.social's latest contribution to @jackbalkin.bsky.social's Balkinization blog, assessing the negative impacts the U.S. Supreme Court’s Braidwood decision will likely have on preventive care. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-...

Common-Law Limits on Firearms Purchases by Minors: The Original Understanding - Penn Law Review Prohibitions on the purchase and use of firearms by individuals between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one have emerged as one of the most divisive issues in recent Second Amendment jurisprudence. At...

🔔 New publication! In an essay for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, @solomonctryls.bsky.social Visiting Research Scholar Saul Cornell examines the common law principles underlying Founding-era limits on minors’ ability to buy guns. pennlawreview.com/2025/06/24/c...

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

Just published in @thelancet.com! @solomonctryls.bsky.social Distinguished Visitor @akesselheim.bsky.social and his co-author examine the growing trend of unlogged data manipulation in federal public health datasets and the need for accuracy and transparency.
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In her latest article, @solomonctryls.bsky.social Faculty Director @abbegluck.bsky.social explores what might be lost as parties deviate from the traditional litigation model by using bankruptcy in mass tort actions such as the federal opioid litigation.
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Are Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices Anticompetitive? Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New paper out now! In a co-authored @nber.org study released this week, @solomonctryls.bsky.social faculty affiliates Zack Cooper and @proffionasm.bsky.social find that hospital acquisitions of physician practices raise prices by decreasing competition.

www.nber.org/papers/w34039

Global Health in the Age of AI: Charting a Course for Ethical Implementation and Societal Benefit - Minds and Machines Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents unprecedented opportunities to transform healthcare worldwide, from improving diagnostic accuracy to expanding access in underserved regions. Despite this potenti...

📚 New publication! ‪@solomonctryls.bsky.social faculty affiliate @reneeasirbu.bsky.social, @yaledec.bsky.social ‪scholar @jessrmorley.bsky.social, and their co-authors examine the complex barriers impeding AI benefits realization in global health contexts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Expertise after Chevron: A potentially pyrrhic victory on executive control over preventive care This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. With so much going on, […]

Just published by @scotusblog.com! @solomonctryls.bsky.social Faculty Director @abbegluck.bsky.social examines what implications the U.S. Supreme Court’s Braidwood decision has for executive authority and deference to scientific expertise in health policymaking. www.scotusblog.com/2025/07/expe...

Check out @solomonctryls.bsky.social Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law @ninakohn.bsky.social in @law360.bsky.social on state efforts to protect residents of long-term care facilities that are not nursing homes. www.law360.com/healthcare-a...

Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A.

Just published in the ‪‪@nytimes.com‬‬: @solomonctryls.bsky.social Distinguished Visitor ‪@akesselheim.bsky.social‬‬, Yale ‪@yalecrrit.bsky.social‬ co-directors ‪@reshmagar.bsky.social‬ and ‪@jsross119.bsky.social‬, and others on “the Collapse of the F.D.A.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

Association of Policy With Palliative Care Uptake in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Background Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma presents substantial symptom burdens in advanced stages, yet only a small fraction of patients receive palliative care (PC). Medicaid expansion and s...

Congratulations to our summer research assistant Sarina Fereydooni on her article about palliative care for cancer patients, which uses the @solomonctryls.bsky.social Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS to analyze palliative care laws across the United States.
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Two Yale Health Law Scholars Appointed to Tenure-Track Professorships Two senior health scholars at the Solomon Center, Yaron Covo and Ximena Benavides, have been appointed to tenure-track professorships.

Two senior @solomonctryls.bsky.social health scholars, Yaron Covo and @drximebena.bsky.social, have been appointed to prestigious tenure-track professorships. Read the full press release here: law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...

Solomon Center White Paper Outlines Options to Expand Health Care for Children Living with Serious Illness Researchers at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy recommend ways that access to palliative care can be improved for Connecticut’s estimated 7,000+ children living with serious illnesses.

💡New white paper out now! This groundbreaking study from Solomon Center researchers Wendy Jiang, Elle Rothermich, and Eugene Rusyn explains how Connecticut can expand palliative care access for children living with serious illness.
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📚Just published! The new Elder Law Journal article from ‪@solomonctryls.bsky.social‬ Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law @ninakohn.bsky.social‬, Research Fellow Wendy Jiang, and others explores the limits of mandatory elder abuse reporting and proposes reforms. theelderlawjournal.com/wp-content/u...

Jeremy Pilaar Joins Solomon Center as Executive Director Jeremy Pilaar ’18 has joined the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School as its new Executive Director.

We are excited to welcome our new Executive Director, Jeremy Pilaar! Jeremy brings significant expertise to the role, having previously served as in-house counsel for a large public hospital system, a legal aid lawyer, and a health antitrust litigator.
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Last year @solomonctryls.bsky.social convened a group of the nation's leading thinkers on #ElderAbuse. One result: this new article. It reveals how little reporting mandates do to help older adults & calls for evidence-based #law reform.

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Transportation Policy for the 100-Year Life (Chapter 20) - Law and the 100-Year Life Law and the 100-Year Life - May 2025

🚨 Pub day for "Transportation for the 100-Year Life," my contribution to a new book about the implications of longer lifespans for legal institutions. The whole (open-access) volume is excellent and I'm deeply grateful to the editors for their feedback and support.
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Will the Impending Wave of Seniors Inundate City Streets? — Streetsblog USA What laws should your city be passing now to make sure that a historic number of elders can age in place — or at least with some grace?

Law and the 100-Year Life book contributor ‪@gregshill.com‬ speaks to The Brake ‪@usa.streetsblog.org‬ podcast about his chapter on the laws cities should pass to support seniors’ changing mobility needs as more of us than ever live to 100. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/06/17/s...

Image of the cover Law and the 100-Year Life. Words associated with the image read "Law and the 100-Year Life explores how legal systems must adapt to longer lives--from work and marriage to housing and healthcare. Discover a bold vision for aging, equity, and opportunity.

New book alert! Law & the 100-Year Life explores how our laws should adapt to unprecedented longevity. Happy to join a terrific group of authors under the leadership of editors Anne Alstott, @abbegluck.bsky.social & Eugene Rusyn.

Bonus: the book is open access.

Law and the 100-Year Life Cambridge Core - Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine - Law and the 100-Year Life

"Will serve as the guidebook for all future work to create livable and just centenarian societies"

Law and the 100-Year Life eds. Anne L. Alstott, Abbe R. Gluck & Eugene Rusyn, Out Now

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Sara Sternberg Greene of dukelaw.bsky.social recently published an op-ed about the interplay between nudges from the government and Americans’ spending habits (based on Law and the 100-Year Life by Anne Alstott, @abbegluck.bsky.social , and Eugene Rusyn). Read it here! www.salon.com/2025/04/07/w...

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Law and the 100-Year Life

New book out now from ‪@universitypress.cambridge.org‬! Law and the 100-Year Life, co-edited by Solomon Center scholars, reimagines how laws and the institutions they shape—from labor to healthcare—must evolve in a world where more of us than ever will live to 100. law.yale.edu/solomon-cent...