Katharine A. Van Tassel

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Visiting Professor of Law

11075 East Boulevard

Cleveland, OH 44106-7148

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

Intellectual Property and Public Health – A White Paper

Akron Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 7, 2013, U of Akron Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-11, Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 152-2013, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 2259089, Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-22
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 May 2013 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
University of Missouri at Columbia - University of Missouri School of Law, Michigan State University - College of Law, University of Akron - School of Law, Regent University School of Law, University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, Cornell Law School, University of Akron - School of Law, University of Akron - School of Law, New York University School of Law, Northeastern University - School of Law, University of Kansas School of Law and Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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public health, intellectual property, TRIPS, patent, healthcare, health, big data, innovation, health care, pharmaceuticals, alternatives, Hatch-Waxman, prizes, collectively governed systems, clinical trials, black box, transparency, Obamacare, privacy, human rights

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Hospital Peer Review Standards and Due Process: Moving from Tort Doctrine Toward Contract Principles Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines

Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2006, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 18 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2012
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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quality control, hospital peer review, quality patient care, medical malpractice, hospital staff privileges, standard of care, quality control, quality improvement

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The Growing Consumer Exposure to Nanotechnology in Everyday Products: Regulating Innovative Technologies in Light of Lessons from the Past

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2014
Katharine A. Van Tassel and Rose Goldman
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Harvard School of Public Health
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Nanotechnology, Innovative Technology, Public Health, Food And Drug Law, Health Law, Product Liability, Tort, Regulation, Social Policy

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Slaying the Hydra: The History of Quack Medicine, the Obesity Epidemic and the FDA's Battle to Regulate Dietary Supplements

Indiana Health Law Journal, Vol. 6, pp. 203-251, 2009
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2012
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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obesity, weight loss, supplement, FDA

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Blacklisted: The Constitutionality of the Federal System for Publishing Reports of 'Bad Doctors' in the National Practitioner Data Bank

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 33, 2012, U of Akron Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-16
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 17 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2012
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Genetically Modified Food, Risk Assessment and Scientific Uncertainty Principles: Does the New Understanding of the Networked Gene Trigger the Need for Post-Market Surveillance to Protect Public Health?

Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, Vol. 15, pp. 220-251, 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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genetically modified food, food, fda, innovative technology, tort liability, network gene

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Harmonizing the Affordable Care Act with the Three Main National Systems for Healthcare Quality Improvement: The Tort, Licensure and Hospital Peer Review Systems

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 78, 2013, U of Akron Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-19
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2013
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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affordable care act, Obama Care, cost of healthcare, quality of healthcare, access to health care, clinical practice guidelines, evidence based medicine, personalized medicine, tort system, hospital peer review, medical licensure

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The Introduction of Biotech Foods to the Tort System: Creating a New Duty to Identify

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 72, p. 1645, 2004
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 18 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2012
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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genetically modified food, bioengineered food, genetically engineered food, food tort liability, food allerginicity, bioengineering

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Legal and Ethical Aspects of Healthcare

16 Law & Politics Book Rev. 306-08 (2006)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 05 Jan 2018
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Bioethics, confidentiality, informed consent, the right to refuse medical treatment, medical negligence, research on human subjects, assisted reproduction, genetics, abortion, end-of-life decision-making, organ donation, sex and gender, mental health and capacity, elder law, England, Scotland

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Regulating in Uncertainty: Animating the Public Health Product Safety Net to Capture Consumer Products Regulated by the FDA that Use Innovative Technologies, Including Nanotechnologies, Genetic Modification, Cloning, and Lab Grown Meat

University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2013, U of Akron Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-09
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 30 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2014
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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nanotechnology, genetically modified food, GM food, GMOs, lab grown meat, innovative technologies, regulating in uncertainty, FDA, Food & Drug Law, consumer products, product liability, post market surveillance

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Using Clinical Practice Guidelines and Knowledge Translation Theory to Cure the Negative Impact of the Hospital Peer Review Hearing System on Healthcare Quality, Cost, and Access

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 40, 101 (2013), U of Akron Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-10
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 26 May 2013
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, hospital peer review, knowledge translation theory, medical error, Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (“HCQIA”)

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Vulnerable Populations and Vaccine Injury Compensation: The Need for Legal Reform

Forthcoming in COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy (I. Glenn Cohen et al., eds. Cambridge University Press 2022), Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-9
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 May 2021 Last Revised: 24 May 2021
Katharine A. Van Tassel and Sharona Hoffman
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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COVID-19, vaccine injuries, vaccine injury compensation, Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), health disparities, vulnerable populations, vaccine hesitancy.

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Food and Drug Law

Food and Drug Law, in Developments in Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice 2016, 344-381 (Michael Tien ed., 2017)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2018
Katharine A. Van Tassel, James T. O'Reilly, John F. Johnson III and Edgar Asebey
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Independent, Benjamin L. England & Associates and Independent
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Food & Drug Administration, FDA, Antitrust, Actavis, False Claims Act, Escobar, Food Safety Modernization Act, 21st Century Cures Act, Trademark, Lanham Act, First Amendment, Off-label Use

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Testimony of Professor Katharine Van Tassel, Patient Dumping Briefing, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Panel III: Scholars Panel

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Patient Dumping Briefing (March 14, 2014)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2020
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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EMTALA, Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, inequality, patient dumping, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, discrimination, health law, medical malpractice, emergency care, access to healthcare, bias in healthcare

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Modernizing the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act to Harmonize with the Affordable Care Act to Improve Equality, Quality and Cost of Emergency Care

15 Hous. J. Health L. & Policy 133-71 (2015)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Dec 2017
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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EMTALA, Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, inequality, patient dumping, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, discrimination, health law, medical malpractice, emergency care, access to healthcare, bias in healthcare

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Covid-19 Vaccine Injuries — Preventing Inequities in Compensation

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-10, 384 New England Journal of Medicine e34 (March 11, 2021) DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2034438
Posted: 19 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Katharine A. Van Tassel, Carmel Shachar and Sharona Hoffman
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Harvard Law School and Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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vaccines, public health emergencies, vaccine hesitancy, health disparities, disadvantaged populations, PREP Act, National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.

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Liability for Prescription Drug Problems

Litigating the Nursing Home Case (James T. O’Reilly & Katharine Van Tassel 2nd ed. 2014)
Posted: 09 Nov 2020
Katharine A. Van Tassel and James T. O'Reilly
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Independent

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nursing home liability, medication errors, polypharmacy, elder neglect,elder abuse, elder law, long-term care, tort, personal injury

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Fall Related Injuries

Litigating the Nursing Home Case (James T. O'Reilly & Katharine Van Tassel 2nd ed. 2014)
Posted: 09 Nov 2020
Katharine A. Van Tassel and James T. O'Reilly
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Independent

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nursing home liability, falls, elder neglect, elder law, long-term care, tort, personal injury

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King v. Burwell: Averting the Affordable Care Act's Demise

Creighton Lawyer 10 (Fall, 2015)
Posted: 02 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2018
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, ACA, Obamacare, King v. Burwell

Other Papers (2)

Total Downloads: 47
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Life Cycle of the Fight to Label Innovative Ingredients Introduced into Consumer Products - a Suggestion for Producers of Lab Grown Meat

Bill of Health, blog of the Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard School of Law, February 11, 2013
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 29 Dec 2017
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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food labeling, genetically modified, lab grown meat, nanotechnology

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Harmonizing the ACA with State Tort and Licensure Systems and Hospital Peer Review

"Health Affairs Blog's July Top-Ten List Features Posts On Supreme Court Decisions," 2012
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 27 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2017
Katharine A. Van Tassel
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Affordable Care Act, Hospital Peer Review, Medical Malpractice, Physician Licensure, Evidence-Based Care, Customary Care