James Toomey (@profjamestoomey) 's Twitter Profile
James Toomey

@profjamestoomey

Associate Professor @IowaLawSchool

Bioethics, private law, and more.

Papers here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/Ab…

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Nina Kohn (@ninakohn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please share! CFP for conference exploring how law can promote successful #aging in world of increased longevity--and the implications of new scientific understandings of the aging #brain. Excited to partner with Petrie-Flom Center & a great team including I. Glenn Cohen & Susannah Baruch.

Nina Kohn (@ninakohn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Researchers in #law, #gerontology & #medicine: abstracts for this conference I'm co-organizing at Harvard Law School are due 11/1. We'll focus on how law can promote successful #aging -and the implications of modern #brain science. Creative takes welcome. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/resources/oppo…

Petrie-Flom Center (@petrieflom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

DEADLINE EXTENSION: The NEW deadline for Petrie-Flom Center’s 2025 Annual Conference #Law, #Healthcare, and the #Aging #Brain and #Body Call for #Abstracts is now November 15th! Learn more and submit here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/resources/oppo…

DEADLINE EXTENSION: The NEW deadline for <a href="/PetrieFlom/">Petrie-Flom Center</a>’s 2025 Annual Conference #Law, #Healthcare, and the #Aging #Brain and #Body Call for #Abstracts is now November 15th! Learn more and submit here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/resources/oppo…
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Blog post about the "Bioethics After Dobbs" Symposium Edition of the Pace Law Review for Bill of Health (Petrie-Flom Center). Quick summaries of the papers, with links, here: blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/12/08/pac…

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This is kind of a new one for me, but I'm quoted in this (unfortunately paywalled) IFLScience piece, from an interview I did with them and my Virginia Law Review article "Property's Boundaries"— iflscience.com/do-we-actually…

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Thank you to Professor Katheleen Guzman for the review of my paper "Executor Discretion," out soon with the Iowa Law Review, for Jotwell! trustest.jotwell.com/discretioners/…..

Iowa Law Review (@iowalawreview) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Volume 110, Issue 3 is out now! This Issue features six Articles and four Student Notes on a wide range of topics. Check out these recently published Articles and Student Notes here: ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-110-iss…

Volume 110, Issue 3 is out now! This Issue features six Articles and four Student Notes on a wide range of topics. Check out these recently published Articles and Student Notes here: ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-110-iss…
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Wow—I'm honored to have two papers covered in Jotwell in two weeks! Many thanks to family law luminary Prof. Kaiponanea Matsumura—whose work has influenced my thinking for a long time—for the review of my paper "Love, Liberalism, Substituted Judgment"! family.jotwell.com/operationalizi…..

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James Toomey recently gave a Zoom talk on aging, cognitive decline, and the law of medical decision-making for med students at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

<a href="/profjamestoomey/">James Toomey</a> recently gave a Zoom talk on aging, cognitive decline, and the law of medical decision-making for med students at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Mary Ziegler (@maryrziegler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks to NPR for naming Personhood the book of the day. npr.org/2025/05/08/124… You can pick up a copy here or at your bookstore: .org/2025/05/08/1249919764/nprs-book-of-the-day-mary-ziegler-personhood

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James Toomey recently had three papers picked up: Fiduciary Standards, 51 ACTEC L.J. (forthcoming 2026), Law's Meaning, 101 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026), and Privately-Crafted Obligations, 78 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026). See more here ➡️ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/

James Toomey recently had three papers picked up: Fiduciary Standards, 51 ACTEC L.J. (forthcoming 2026), Law's Meaning, 101 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026), and Privately-Crafted Obligations, 78 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).

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Doron Dorfman (@dorfmandoron) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s now internet official: I’m thrilled to join Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Harvard Medical School as an Affiliate (in addition to my Seton Hall Law position)! I get to be a part of a vibrant interdisciplinary community and teach a new class called Bioethics of Disability 🙏🏻 bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/…

James Toomey (@profjamestoomey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm excited to work with Editors-in-Chief Brian Earp, Lucy Frith, and Arianne Shahvisi and the whole editorial team as a new Associate Editor at the Journal of Medical Ethics. Send us your work! jme.bmj.com/pages/editoria…