Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Language

English

Publication Date

1-1-2026

Journal

Journal of Law and the Biosciences

DOI

10.1093/jlb/lsag002

PMID

41696629

PMCID

PMC12900059

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

2-12-2026

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-print

Abstract

Lawyers and law professors are increasingly involved in interdisciplinary scientific teams and grant research to answer ethical, legal and policy questions related to biomedical topics. Yet, the methods that lawyers use to conduct legal research and analysis are not always familiar to scientists and social scientists conducting peer review of a proposed project with legal aims or a publication reporting a legal study. To better facilitate interdisciplinary ethical, legal, and social implications collaboration, there is a need to better explain how legal research methodologies can provide robust tools to address a range of nuanced biomedical questions. This paper explores legal research and analysis methodologies relevant to federally funded research and scientific inquiry. It sets out different ways that legal research and analysis can advance and support biomedical, bioethics, and health law research and then demonstrates how these benefits can be realized using case studies from existing literature.

Keywords

law, bioethics, methods, ELSI

Published Open-Access

yes

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