Boston University School of Public Health

Professor Mariner combines teaching and research on patient rights, risk regulation, health reform, health insurance, and ERISA, and has published more than 100 articles in the legal, medical and health policy literature. She is Faculty Director of the JD-MPH dual degree program.  She also serves as Associate Director of the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Division on Regulatory Knowledge and Research Ethics and is Chair of the Boston University Faculty Council. Professor Mariner has served as a member of numerous boards and commissions, including the Massachusetts Health Facilities Appeals Board, the National Institutes of Health's AIDS Policy Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine's Committees on Smoking Cessation in Veteran and Military Populations, the Ryan White CARE Act, and the Children's Vaccine Initiative, the CIOMS/WHO Steering Committee for International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects, and the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association.  She is currently a member of the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council Advisory Committee, charged with implementing the Commonwealth's health reform legislation, the Massachusetts Public Health Association Board of Directors, and is a founding member of the New England Coalition for Law and Public Health. As legal director for a BUSPH project, she assisted the Russian Federation in developing health reform legislation. She was the American Journal of Public Health's Contributing Editor for Health Law and Ethics, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and the Human Rights and the Global Economy. She and Professors Annas and Glantz have submitted amicus curiae briefs to the United States Supreme Court in several cases involving health law issues

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Mariner WK, Annas GJ, Parmet WE. Pandemic preparedness: A return to the rule of law. Drexel Law Review 2009; 1: 341-382.

Mariner WK. Toward an architecture of health law. American Journal of Law & Medicine 2009; 35: 67-87.

Mariner WK. Social solidarity and personal responsibility in health reform.  Connecticut Insurance Law Journal.  2008; 14(2): 199-228

Mariner WK & de Faria PL, eds.  Law and Ethics in Rationing Access to Care in a High-Cost Global Economy. Calouste Goulbenkian 2008

Mariner WK.  Legal responsibility to research subjects: liability and compensation for injury, in EJ Emmanuel et al. eds., The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. Oxford University Press 2008: 682-696

Wing KR, Mariner WK, Annas GJ, Strouse D. Public Health Law. New York: LexisNexis 2007

Mariner WK. Mission creep: public health surveillance and medical privacy. Boston University Law Review.  2007; 87: 347-395

Mariner WK.   Law in the name of public health: Ignoring freedoms and entitlements, in Clare Dalton, ed., Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets: Rethinking Ideology and Strategy. William S. Hein & Co. 2007: 309-341

Mariner WK. Medicine and public health: crossing legal boundaries. Journal of Health Care Law & Policy.  2007; 10: 121-151

Mariner WK.  The role of law in controlling epidemics: lessons from TB, HIV and SARS, in The Role of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights to Promote a Safer and Healthier World, PL de Faria, ed., Lisbon: Luso-American Foundation, 2006: 123-182

Mariner WK.  Law and public health: Beyond emergency preparedness. Journal of Health Law.  2005; 38: 247-285

Mariner WK, Annas GJ, Glantz LH. Jacobson v. Massachusetts: It's Not Your Great-Great-Grandfather's Public Health Law. American Journal of Public Health.  2005; 95: 581-590

Mariner WK.  The Supreme Court's limitation of managed-care liability.  New England Journal of Medicine.  2004; 352(13): 1347-1352

Mariner WK. Can consumer-choice plans satisfy patients? Problems with theory and practice in health insurance contracts. Brooklyn Law Review.  2004; 69(2): 485-542

Mariner WK. Taking informed consent seriously in global HIV vaccine research.  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2003; 32(2): 117-123

Mariner WK. Public health and law: past and future visions.  Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.  2003; 28(2-3): 525-552

Mariner WK. Independent external review of health maintenance organizations' medical necessity decisions.  New England Journal of Medicine. 2002; 347: 2178-2182

Mariner WK, FH Miller.  Medical Error Reporting: Professional Tensions Between Confidentiality & Liability, Issue Brief, Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, Boston, MA (November 2001), available at:  www.sihp.brandeis.edu/mhpf/prof_liability_Issue_Brief.pdf

Mariner WK. Slouching toward managed care liability:  reflections on doctrinal boundaries, paradigm shifts, and incremental reform.  Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2001; 29(3-4):  253-277

Mariner WK. What recourse?-liability for managed care decisions and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.  New England Journal of Medicine.  2000; 343(8): 592-596

Mariner WK. The common law of human experimentation, chapter in TH Murray, MJ Mehlman, eds., Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Revised second edition, 2002, available at http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/eelpib/index.html

Mariner WK.  Standards of care and standard form contracts: distinguishing patient rights and consumer rights in managed care.  Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy. 1998; 15: 1-55

Glantz LH, Annas GJ, Grodin, MA, Mariner WK.  Research in developing countries: taking "benefit" seriously.  Hastings Center Report.  1998; 28(6): 38-42

Mariner WK. Physician assisted suicide and the Supreme Court: putting the constitutional claim to rest.  American Journal of Public Health.  1997; 87(12): 2058-2062

Mariner WK. State regulation of managed care and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.  New England Journal of Medicine.  1996; 335(26): 1986-1990

Mariner WK.  Liability for managed care decisions:  the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the uneven playing field.  American Journal of Public Health. 1996; 86(6): 863-870

Mariner WK.  Research in emergency care without consent:  new proposed FDA rules.  Lancet. 1995; 346: 1505-1506

Mariner WK.  Business vs. medical ethics:  conflicting standards for managed care.  Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 1995; 23: 236-246

Mariner WK.  Rationing health care and the need for credible scarcity.  American Journal of Public Health. 1995; 85: 1439-1445

Mariner WK.  Compensation for research injuries.  In:  Institute of Medicine.  Women and Health Research:  Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies, Vol. II.  Washington, D.C.:  National Academy Press, 1994; 113-126

Mariner WK.  Distinguishing "exploitable" from "vulnerable" populations: when consent is not the issue.  In:  Bankowski Z, Levine RJ, eds. Ethics and Research on Human Subjects:  International Guidelines.  Geneva, Switzerland: C10MS, 1993, pp. 44-55

Mariner WK.  Outcomes assessment in health care reform: promise and limitations.  American Journal of Law and Medicine. 1994; 20: 37-57

Mariner WK.  Patient's rights after health care reform:  Who decides what is medically necessary?  American Journal of Public Health. 1994; 84: 1515-1520

Mariner WK.  Patients' rights to care under Clinton's Health Security Act:  The structure of reform.  American Journal of Public Health. 1994; 84: 1330-35

Mariner WK.  Problems with employer-provided health insurance -- the employee retirement income security act and health care reform.  New England Journal of Medicine.  1992; 327: 1682-1685

Mariner WK.  Equitable access to biomedical advances:  getting beyond the rights impasse.  Connecticut Law Review.  1989; 21: 571-603

Mariner WK.  Compensation for vaccine-related injury abroad:  a comparative analysis.  St. Louis University Law Journal.  1987; 31(3): 599-654

Mariner WK, Gallo RC.  Getting to market:  the scientific and legal climate for developing an AIDS vaccine.  Law, Medicine and Health Care.  1987; 15: 17-26

Mariner WK.  Access to health care and equal protection of the law:  the need for a new heightened scrutiny.  American Journal of Law & Medicine.  1986; 12: 345-380