Who gets the ventilator? Important legal rights in a pandemic

K Liddell, JM Skopek, S Palmer, S Martin… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - jme.bmj.com
COVID-19 is a highly contagious infection with no proven treatment. Approximately 2.5% of
patients need mechanical ventilation while their body fights the infection. 1 Once COVID-19 …

Ethical considerations in the early detection of Alzheimer's disease using speech and AI

U Petti, R Nyrup, JM Skopek, A Korhonen - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While recent studies indicate that AI could play an important role in detecting early signs of
Alzheimer's disease in speech, this use of data from individuals with cognitive decline raises …

Reasonable expectations of anonymity

JM Skopek - Va. L. Rev., 2015 - HeinOnline
NEW technologies and methods of data analysis are being used by the government to
monitor the public in ways that were unimaginable a decade ago. Law enforcement …

Untangling privacy: Losses versus violations

JM Skopek - Iowa L. Rev., 2019 - HeinOnline
Increasingly powerful data mining and analysis technologies are being used to learn
information and make decisions about people across all areas of lie-eranging from …

Anonymity, the production of goods, and institutional design

JM Skopek - Fordham L. Rev., 2013 - HeinOnline
In Representative Government, John Stuart Mill suggests that the ability to vote
anonymously in political elections is a threat to democracy. 1 The problem with anonymous …

Principles, exemplars, and uses of history in early 20th century genetics

JM Skopek - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the uses of history in science. It focuses in particular on Anglo-
American genetics and on university textbooks—where the canon of a science is …

Uncommon goods: On environmental virtues and voluntary carbon offsets

JM Skopek - Harvard Law Review, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
While the use of carbon offsets as a regulatory tool has been the subject of extensive
academic debate, the purely voluntary purchase of offsets has received virtually no attention …

Differentiating negligent standards of care in diagnosis

K Liddell, JM Skopek, I Le Gallez, Z Fritz - Medical Law Review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Diagnosis lies at the heart of the medical encounter, yet it has received much less attention
than treatment. It is widely assumed that negligent diagnosis claims should be governed by …

Aesthetic Injuries, Animal Rights, and Anthropomorphism

JM Skopek - Harvard Law Review, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
In 1386, a female pig was put on trial in France for causing the death of a child by tearing his
face and arms. After being found guilty, the tribunal ordered that she be maimed in the head …

Shaping science with the past: textbooks, history, and the disciplining of genetics

JM Skopek - 2008 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Science is generally not thought of as being deeply historiographical. Although it is clear that
scientists frequently write about history in their work—that, for example, they identify the …