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Scott Burris
Senior Associate
James E. Beasley Professor
Academic Degrees
JD
Departmental Affiliation
Health Policy and Management
Phone: 215 204 6576
Fax: 215 204 1185
Research and Professional Experience

Scott Burris has written extensively in the areas of HIV and public health law. He is the editor of AIDS Law Today: A New Guide for the Public (1993), and the author or co-author of articles including The Law and the Public's Health: A Study of Infectious Disease Law in the United States,99 Columbia L. Rev. 59(1999), Dental Discrimination Against the HIV-Infected: Empirical Data, Law and Pub lic Policy, 13 Yale J. Reg. 1 (1996) and Legal Strategies for Syringe Exchange in the United States, 86 Am. J. Pub. Health 1161 (1996). His work has been supported by grants from foundations including The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lindesmith Center.He serves on numerous advisory committees on matters relating to the intersection of public health and law

Keywords

HIV/AIDS, LAW, PUBLIC HEALTH LAW

Selected Publications

Legal Aspects of Regulating Bathhouses and Sex Clubs: Cases from 1984 to 1995, 44 J. Homosexuality 131 (2003)

Introduction: Envisioning Health Disparities, 29 Am. J. L. & Med. 151 (2003)

Would you Consider Prescribing Syringes to Injection Drug Users? Addiction Medicine Conference Survey, 22 J. Addictive Diseases 67 (2003) (with Rich et al.)

Introduction: Merging Law, Human Rights and Social Epidemiology, 30 J. L., Med. & Ethics 498 (2002)

Integrating Law and Social Epidemiology, 30 J. L., Med. & Ethics 510 (2002) (with Kawachi & Sarat)

Health and the Governance of Security: A Tale of Two Systems, 30 J. L., Med. & Ethics 632 (2002) (with Aral & Shearing)

The Dimensions of Public Health Law Research, 30 J. L., Med. & Ethics 197 (2002) (with Horton et al.)

State Syringe and Drug Possession Laws Potentially Influencing Safe Syringe Disposal by Injection Drug Users, 42 J. Am. Pharm. Assn. S94 (2002) (with Welsh, Ng, Li & Ditzler)

The Legality of Selling or Giving Syringes to Injection Drug Users, 42 J. Am. Pharm. Assn. S13 (2002) (with Vernick, Ditzler & Strathdee)

Individual and Structural Influences Shaping Pharmacists' Decisions to Sell Syringes to Injection Drug Users in Atlanta, Georgia, 42 J. Am. Pharm. Assn. S40 (2002) (with Taussig et al.)

Structural Interventions to Improve Opiate Maintenance, 13 Int’l J. Drug Policy 103 (2002) (with Heimer et al.)

The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Planning and Response to Bioterrorism and Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases, 288 JAMA 622 (2002) (with Gostin et al.)

Disease Stigma in Public Health Law and Research, 30 J. L., Med. & Ethics 179 (2002)

Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Laws on HIV Risk Behavior, 30 J. L., Med. & Ethics 239 (2002) (with Lazzarini & Bray)

Other Branches of Science Are Necessary to Form a Lawyer: Teaching Public Health Law in Law Schools, 30 J. L., Med. & Ethics 298 (2002) (with Goodman et al.)

Mediation of Employment Discrimination Disputes Involving Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities, 53 Psychiatric Services 988 (2002) (with Moss et al.)

Unfunded Mandate: An Empirical Study of the Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 50 Kansas L. Rev. 1 (2001) (with Moss et al.)

Legal Aspects of Providing Naloxone to Heroin Users in the United States, 12 Int’l J. Drug Policy 237 (2001) (with Norland & Edlin)

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Development of Public Health Law, in Dawning Answers: How the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Helped to Strengthen Public Health (Ronald O. Valdiserri ed., Oxford, 2003) (with Gostin)

Genetic Screening from a Public Health Perspective: Three "Ethical" Principles, in A Companion to Genethics (Justine Burley and John Harris eds., Blackwell, 2002) (with Gostin)

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