
James Toomey
@profjamestoomey
Associate Professor @IowaLawSchool
Bioethics, private law, and more.
Papers here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/Ab…
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https://www.toomeyjames.com/ 07-06-2022 21:23:14
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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.

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…

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…


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…

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…



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…..




"Privately-Crafted Obligations," forthcoming in Florida Law Review (2026)! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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.


In print! Check out the published version of "Executor Discretion," with the Iowa Law Review, here: ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-110-iss…






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/…
