Biography

    Professor Mariner is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law and Faculty Director of the JD-MPH dual degree program. She is also Professor of Law at BU School of Law and Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences at BU School of Medicine.  Professor Mariner combines teaching and research on patient rights, risk regulation, health reform legislation, health insurance, and ERISA, and has published more than 100 articles in the legal, medical and health policy literature. She has a JD from Columbia University School of Law, LL.M from New York University School of Law, and M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health.

    Professor Mariner is currently a member of the Massachusetts Health Information Technology Advisory Committee and chairs its Legal and Policy Workgroup, and an Executive Committee member of the Health Care Quality and Cost Council Advisory Committee, charged with implementing the Commonwealth's health reform legislation. She is also a Council Member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities and a member of the ABA Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law. 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, the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association, and the Massachusetts Public Health Association Board of Directors.  At Boston University, she served as Chair of the Boston University Faculty Council and a Trustee of Boston University (2008-2010), and as Associate Director of the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Division on Regulatory Knowledge and Research Ethics.  She is a founding member of the New England Coalition for Law and Public Health. 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 her colleagues have submitted amicus curiae briefs to the United States Supreme Court in several cases involving health law issues, most recently in the case challenging the constitutionality of the minimum coverage requirement of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Florida v. US Department of Health and Human Services.


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    1. Mariner WK, Glantz LH, Annas GJ. Reframing Federalism - The Affordable Care Act (and Broccoli) in the Supreme Court. N Engl J Med. 2012 Jul 18.
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    2. Mariner WK, Glantz LH, Annas GJ. Reframing Federalism -- The Affordable Care Act (and Broccoli) in the Supreme Court. New Engl J Med. July 18, 1012, http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMhle1208437. 2012.
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    3. Mariner WK, Hall MA, Gluck AR, Fried C. Brief of 104 Health Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Petititoners, in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. State of Florida, No. 11-398, Supreme Court of the United States (Jan. 13, 2012). 2012.
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    4. Mariner WK. The Affordable Care Act Individual Coverage Requirement: Ways to Frame the Commerce Clause Issue. Annals of Health Law. 2012; 21:45-62.
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    5. Mariner WK. The Affordable Care Act and Health Promotion: The Role of Insurance in Defining Responsibility for Health Risks and Costs. Duquesne L. Rev. 2012; 50: 271-331. 2012.
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    6. Mariner WK, Balkin JM, Somin I. The constitutionality of the individual mandate. N Engl J Med. 2011 Oct 27; 365(17):e36.
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    7. Annas GJ, Mariner WK. Women and children last--the predictable effects of proposed federal funding cuts. N Engl J Med. 2011 Apr 28; 364(17):1590-1.
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    8. Mariner WK, Annas GJ, Glantz LH. Can Congress make you buy broccoli? And why that's a hard question. N Engl J Med. 2011 Jan 20; 364(3):201-3.
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    9. Mariner WK, Annas GJ. Health insurance politics in federal court. N Engl J Med. 2010 Sep 30; 363(14):1300-1.
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    10. Mariner WK. Health reform: what's insurance got to do with it? Recognizing health insurance as a separate species of insurance. Am J Law Med. 2010; 36(2-3):436-51.
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    11. Mariner WK, Annas GJ, Parmet WE. Pandemic Preparedness: A Return to the Rule of Law. Drexel L. Rev. 2009; 1: 341-382. 2009.
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    12. Mariner WK. Toward an architecture of health law. Am J Law Med. 2009; 35(1):67-87.
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    13. Mariner WK, Lobato de Faria P. Law and Ethics in Rationing Access to Care in a High-Cost Global Economy. 2008.
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    14. Mariner WK. Legal responsibility to research subjects: liability and compensation for injury. The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, Emmanuel EJ et al., eds. 2008; 682-696.
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    15. Mariner WK. Social solidarity and personal responsibility in health reform. Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. 2008; 14(2):199-228.
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    16. Mariner WK. Medicine and public health: crossing legal boundaries. Journal of Health Care Law & Policy. 2007; 10:121-151.
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    17. Mariner WK. Law in the name of public health: Ignoring freedoms and entitlements. Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets: Rethinking Ideology and Strategy, Clare Dalton, ed. 2007; 309-341.
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    18. Mariner WK. Mission creep: public health surveillance and medical privacy. Boston Univ L Rev. 2007; 87:347-395.
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    19. Wing KR, Mariner WK, Annas GJ, Strouse, DS. Public Health Law. 2007.
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    20. Mariner WK. The role of law in controlling epidemics: lessons from TB, HIV and SARS. The Role of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights to Promote a Safer and Healthier World, Paula Lobato de Faria, ed. 2006; 123-182.
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    21. Mariner WK, Annas GJ, Glantz LH. Jacobson v Massachusetts: it's not your great-great-grandfather's public health law. Am J Public Health. 2005 Apr; 95(4):581-90.
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    22. Mariner WK. Law and public health: beyond emergency preparedness. J Health Law. 2005; 38(2):247-85.
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    23. Mariner WK. The Supreme Court's limitation of managed-care liability. N Engl J Med. 2004 Sep 23; 351(13):1347-52.
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    24. Mariner WK. Law and health system change. Health Aff (Millwood). 2004 Jul-Aug; 23(4):284.
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    25. 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.
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    26. Mariner WK. Taking informed consent seriously in global HIV vaccine research. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2003 Feb 1; 32(2):117-23.
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    27. Mariner WK. Public health and law: past and future visions. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 2003; 28(2-3):525-552.
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    28. Mariner WK. Independent external review of health maintenance organizations' medical-necessity decisions. N Engl J Med. 2002 Dec 26; 347(26):2178-82.
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    29. Mariner WK. Managed care liability. Journal of Public Health Policy. 2002; 22(2):238-241.
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    30. Mariner WK. Medical error reporting: professional tensions between confidentiality & liability. Issue Brief (Mass Health Policy Forum). 2001 Nov 6; (13):1-35.
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    31. Mariner WK. Slouching toward managed care liability: reflections on doctrinal boundaries, paradigm shifts, and incremental reform. J Law Med Ethics. 2001 Fall-Winter; 29(3-4):253-77.
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    32. Mariner WK. The common law of human experimentation. Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology, TH Murray, MJ Mehllman, eds. 2001.
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    33. Mariner WK. What recourse? Liability for managed-care decisions and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. N Engl J Med. 2000 Aug 24; 343(8):592-6.
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    34. Mariner WK. Going Hollywood with patient rights in managed care. JAMA. 1999 Mar 3; 281(9):861.
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    35. Glantz LH, Annas GJ, Grodin MA, Mariner WK. Research in developing countries: taking "benefit" seriously. Hastings Cent Rep. 1998 Nov-Dec; 28(6):38-42.
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    36. Mariner WK. Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care? by Richard A. Epstein. JAMA. 1998 Jan 28; 279(4):330-1.
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    37. Mariner WK. Standards of care and standard form contracts: distinguishing patient rights and consumer rights in managed care. J Contemp Health Law Policy. 1998; 15(1):1-55.
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    38. Mariner WK. Physician assisted suicide and the Supreme Court: putting the constitutional claim to rest. Am J Public Health. 1997 Dec; 87(12):2058-62.
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    39. Mariner WK. Public confidence in public health research ethics. Public Health Rep. 1997 Jan-Feb; 112(1):33-6.
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    40. Mariner WK. State regulation of managed care and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. N Engl J Med. 1996 Dec 26; 335(26):1986-90.
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    41. Glantz LH, Mariner WK. Needle exchange programs and the law--time for a change. Am J Public Health. 1996 Aug; 86(8):1077-8.
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    42. Mariner WK. Liability for managed care decisions: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the uneven playing field. Am J Public Health. 1996 Jun; 86(6):863-9.
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    43. Mariner WK. Research in emergency care without consent: new proposed FDA rules. Lancet. 1995 Dec 9; 346(8989):1505-6.
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    44. Mariner WK. AIDS phobia, public health warnings, and lawsuits: deterring harm or rewarding ignorance? Am J Public Health. 1995 Nov; 85(11):1562-8.
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    45. Mariner WK. Rationing health care and the need for credible scarcity: why Americans can't say no. Am J Public Health. 1995 Oct; 85(10):1439-45.
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    46. Mariner WK. Business vs. medical ethics: conflicting standards for managed care. J Law Med Ethics. 1995; 23(3):236-46.
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    47. Mariner WK. Patients' rights after health care reform: who decides what is medically necessary? Am J Public Health. 1994 Sep; 84(9):1515-20.
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    48. Mariner WK. Patients' rights to care under Clinton's Health Security Act: the structure of reform. Am J Public Health. 1994 Aug; 84(8):1330-5.
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    49. Mariner WK. Outcomes assessment in health care reform: promise and limitations. Am J Law Med. 1994; 20(1-2):37-57.
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    50. Mariner WK. Medical technology assessment--intended for whom? Am J Public Health. 1993 Nov; 83(11):1525-6.
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    51. Mariner WK. Problems with employer-provided health insurance--the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and health care reform. N Engl J Med. 1992 Dec 3; 327(23):1682-5.
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    52. Mariner WK. The Supreme Court, abortion, and the jurisprudence of class. Am J Public Health. 1992 Nov; 82(11):1556-62.
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    53. Mariner WK. Activists and the AIDS business. Science. 1992 Sep 25; 257(5078):1975-6.
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    54. Mariner WK. Mum's the word: the Supreme Court and family planning. Am J Public Health. 1992 Feb; 82(2):296-301.
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    55. Mariner WK. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Health Aff (Millwood). 1992; 11(1):255-65.
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    56. Glantz LH, Mariner WK, Annas GJ. Risky business: setting public health policy for HIV-infected health care professionals. Milbank Q. 1992; 70(1):43-79.
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    57. Mariner WK. The ethical conduct of clinical trials of HIV vaccines. Eval Rev. 1990 Oct; 14(5):538-64.
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    58. Mariner WK. New FDA drug approval policies and HIV vaccine development. Am J Public Health. 1990 Mar; 80(3):336-41.
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    59. Mariner WK, Glantz LH, Annas GJ. Pregnancy, drugs, and the perils of prosecution. Crim Justice Ethics. 1990 Winter-Spring; 9(1):30-41.
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    60. Annas GJ, Glantz LH, Mariner WK. The right of privacy and the doctor patient relationship. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1990; 263:858-861.
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    61. Annas GJ, Glantz LH, Mariner WK. Brief for bioethicists for privacy as amicus curiae supporting appellees. Am J Law Med. 1989; 15(2-3):169-77.
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    62. Mariner WK. Why clinical trials of AIDS vaccines are premature. Am J Public Health. 1989 Jan; 79(1):86-91.
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    63. Mariner WK. Equitable access to biomedical advances: getting beyond the rights impasse. Conn Law Rev. 1989; 21(3):571-603.
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    64. Mariner WK. La reglementation de la recherche biomedicale aux Etats Unis: le cas de l'experimentation sur l'embryon. [Questions in the regulation of biomedical research in the U.S.: the case of embryo research.]. Experimentation Biomedicale et Droits de L'Homme. Paris:Presses Universitaires de France. 1988.
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    65. Mariner WK. Informed consent in the post modern era. Law & Social Inquiry. 1988; 13:385-406.
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    66. Mariner WK. Compensation programs for vaccine-related injury abroad: a comparative analysis. St Louis Univ Law J. 1987; 31(3):599-654.
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    67. Mariner WK, Gallo RC. Getting to market: the scientific and legal climate for developing an AIDS vaccine. Law Med Health Care. 1987; 15(1-2):17-26.
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    68. Mariner WK, Clark ME. Confronting the immunization problem: proposals for compensation reform. Am J Public Health. 1986 Jun; 76(6):703-8.
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    69. Mariner WK. Access to health care and equal protection of the law: the need for a new heightened scrutiny. Am J Law Med. 1986; 12(3-4):345-80.
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    70. Mariner WK, McArdle PA. Consent forms, readability, and comprehension: the need for new assessment tools. Law Med Health Care. 1985 Apr; 13(2):68-74.
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    71. Mariner WK. Diagnosis related groups: evading social responsibility? Law Med Health Care. 1984 Dec; 12(6):243-4.
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    72. Mariner WK. Decision making in the care of terminally ill incompetent persons: concerns about the role of the courts. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1984 Oct; 32(10):739-46.
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    73. Mariner WK. Market theory and moral theory in health policy. Theor Med. 1983 Jun; 4(2):143-53.
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    74. Mariner WK. Medical care for prisoners: the evolution of a civil right. Medicoleg News. 1981 Apr; 9(2):4-8.
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    75. Mariner WK, Annas GJ. Limiting "sugary drinks" to reduce obesity--who decides? N Engl J Med. 2013 May 9; 368(19):1763-5.
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