David Orentlicher has just published "A Restatement of Health Care Law" in the Brooklyn Law Review. This is a great proposed project with which I would love to be involved. A Restatement could clarify and guide legal doctrines like informed consent. And it could "untangle" complicated doctrines like ERISA preemption.
Orentlicher notes that a Restatement could "provide courts, legislators, practitioners, and scholars with a very helpful understanding of the legal landscape for these [and other] doctrines." Among other things, Orentlicher writes that "there would be considerable benefit alone from a thorough and authoritative description of the rules for withdrawing life-sustaining treatment."
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