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Nicholas D. Lawson

Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown Law Scholar

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Washington, DC 20001

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (7)

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“To Be a Good Lawyer, One Has to Be a Healthy Lawyer”: Lawyer Well-Being, Discrimination, and Discretionary Systems of Discipline

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 34, No. 1
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 May 2020 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2021
Nicholas D. Lawson
Georgetown University Law Center
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Lawyer Well-Being, Disability, Discrimination, Wellness, Privacy, Legal Ethics, Professional Ethics, Mental Health, Legal Profession, Employment Law, Health Law

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Suicide Screening and Surveillance of Students, Discrimination, and Privacy: The Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act

Journal of Law and Education, Vol. 51, No. 1
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 09 May 2022
Nicholas D. Lawson
Georgetown University Law Center
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suicide, disability, psychiatry and psychology, privacy, discrimination, mental health, colleges and universities, education law

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Fat Rights, Public Health Oppression and Prejudice, and the 'Obesity Epidemic'

Touro Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 03 May 2022
Nicholas D. Lawson
Georgetown University Law Center
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fat rights, obesity, public health, civil rights, gender, disability, health law

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How Is ‘Stigma’ Conceived Within the Biomedical Literature on Trainee Wellness?: A Directed Content Analysis

32 MEDEDPUBLISH (2019), DOI/10.15694/mep.2019.000032.1
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2019
Nicholas D. Lawson and Adina Kalet
Georgetown University Law Center and New York University (NYU) - NYU Langone Health
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stigma; wellness; wellbeing; discrimination; harassment; disability; burnout; well-being; physician impairment

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How Broad Are State Physician Health Program Descriptions of Physician Impairment?

13 SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PREVENTION & POL’Y 30 (2018), DOI/10.1186/s13011-018-0168-z
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Oct 2019
Nicholas D. Lawson and J. Wesley Boyd
Georgetown University Law Center and Harvard University
Downloads 39 (1,196,171)

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Physician impairment, Physician health program, Addiction, Substance use disorder, Coercion, Stigma, Discrimination, Physician suicide, Americans with Disabilities Act, Wellness, Well-being

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Public Perception of the Lifetime Morbid Risk of Mental Disorders in the United States and Associations with Public Stigma

5 SPRINGERPLUS 1342 (2016), DOI/10.1186/s40064-016-2974-y
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 Oct 2019
Nicholas D. Lawson
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 38 (1,209,354)

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Mental illness, Mental disorder, Prevalence, Social distance, Stigma, Lifetime morbid risk, Mechanical Turk, Online

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Do State Physician Health Programs Encourage Referrals that Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Nicholas D. Lawson & J. Wesley Boyd, Do State Physician Health Programs Encourage Referrals That Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act?, 56 INT’L J.L. PSYCHIATRY 65 (2018), DOI/10.1016/ j.ijlp.2017.12.004
Posted: 25 Oct 2019
Nicholas D. Lawson and J. Wesley Boyd
Georgetown University Law Center and Harvard University

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Physician impairment, Physician health program, Stigma, Whistleblowing, Social discrimination, Physician health, Americans with Disabilities Act