An article in the August 9, 2025, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine highlights the opportunity, if not the responsibility, of the bar in the private law sector to fill the gaps in healthcare access, quality, and...more
8/26/2025
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New York is poised to become the twelfth state in the country to authorize medical aid in dying with a physician’s prescription for lethal medication to be self-administered by the patient. On June 9, 2025, the New York...more
7/18/2025
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Since being enacted in 2019, the New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying Act has had a threshold condition on a patient’s request for medication under the Act: that they be an “adult resident of New Jersey.” The physician’s record...more