Areas of Expertise

My ongoing research projects focus on the following questions:

• Medical Negligence and the Duty to Warn: Do healthcare practitioners have a duty in tort to warn third parties about threats posed by the health condition of their patient, such as contagious disease, heritable genetic impairments, or a mental disorder posing a threat of harm to the public?
• Psychiatric Harm in Private Law and Disability Discrimination: Do legal doctrines that make it difficult for tort plaintiffs to obtain compensation for psychological injury unjustly discriminate against persons with disabilities, and can the liberalization of remedies for such harm play a role in reforming private law to better advance social justice?
• Proportionality and the Precaution: Must the principles of proportionality involved in the justification of legal limits on constitutional rights be modified to reflect the "precautionary principle," particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic when governments restricted individual freedoms for the sake of protecting public health?
• Patient Privacy and Health Professions Regulation: Are regulatory bodies that uphold ethical standards amongst healthcare practitioners entitled to abrogate patient privacy in the course of investigating and prosecuting professional misconduct? 
• Algorithmic Discrimination in Healthcare: Does it constitute professional negligence that is also actionable in tort for healthcare practitioners to deploy artificial intelligence that has a discriminatory impact in clinical settings?