Writings

These are the papers I wrote while in pursuit of my JD and LLM. I’m publishing them here for the public’s perusal because I think it would help an interested person understand some of the forces at play in the marketplaces of social, legal, and medical innovation.

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Justice and the Differential Diagnosis

I wrote this for a Special Writing Credit when I was pursuing my JD. It’s an approach to some of the problems that can arise when lawyers don’t fully understand what medicine is trying to accomplish.

Rational Vaccines, Peter Thiel, and the Future of Healthcare in America

I wrote this when I was pursuing my LLM. This paper is about the rise of Entrepreneurial Healthcare, and it’s also where I coined the concepts of “The Wedge” and “The Bypass” to describe two reactions that the pharmaceutical industry could take in response to the development of a vaccine that was not developed in the traditional regulatory pathway.