Home Page for Gil Siegal

E-Mail:
gs6x@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 243-8541

Office: WB302E

Secretary/Assistant:
Donna Green

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Subjects:
Genetics (testing, new discoveries, prenatal diagnosis, abortions), bioethics, biotechnology, IVF, reproductive technologies, gene doping, sex selection, health ethics, cloning, gene therapy, health law, reproduction, stem cell research, medical accidents, medical malpractice, organ donation and transplantation

Gil Siegal

Professor of Law, General Faculty
S.J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2009
LL.B., Tel Aviv University, 1993
M.D., Tel Aviv University, Sackler Medical School, 1991

Dr. Gil Siegal’s scholarly interests include the expanding spectrum of modern health law and bioethics including medical malpractice, genetics and biotechnology, public health law, organ transplantation and telemedicine.

Siegal is also the director of the Center for Health Law and Bioethics at Kiryat Ono College in Israel and a senior researcher at the Gertner Institute for Health Policy. He is chief editor of The Journal of Health Law & Bioethics [Heb].

Siegal serves on several national committees in Israel, including the Israeli National Committee for Medical Research, the Israeli National Committee on Human Genetic Research, the Israeli National Committee on Non-Medical Sex Selection, and is chairperson of the Israeli National Forum for Legal and Ethical Aspect of Genetics.

During 2003-04, Siegal was a fellow in Health Policy and Ethics at UVa School of Law, where he also taught Comparative Health Law. During 2004-05, he served as a fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard University Medical School, and a research fellow and consultant at Harvard School of Public Health, working on demonstration projects of administrative compensation for medical injuries (with Michelle Mello and David Studdert).

He has taught at the following universities' law and medical schools: Haifa University, Manchester University, Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University.

Siegal teaches Genetics and the Law.

Publications

Book Chapters:

"Genetic Testing and Screening in Religious Groups – Perspectives of Jewish Charedi Communities" (with B. Prainsack),. In Reproduction in Israel Carmeli and Carmeli eds.) (forthcoming).

"The Stem Cell Debate: a Jewish Perspective on Human Dignity, Human Creativity and Inter-religious Dialogues" (with Y.M. Barilan), in Bender, Manzei, and Hauskeller, eds., Crossing borders: Cultural, political and religious differences concerning stem cell research (forthcoming).

Articles:

In English:

"An Account of Collective Actions in Public Health" (with Neomi Siegal and Richard J. Bonnie) 99 Am Journal of Public Health (forthcoming, 2009)

"Adjudicating Severe Birth Injury Claims in Florida and Virginia: The Experience of a Landmark Experiment in Personal Injury Compensation" (with Michelle M. Mello & David M. Studdert), Am. J. L. & Med. (forthcoming, Dec. 2008).

"Mr./Mrs Right or Mr./Mrs. Gene-Right? – On Premarital Genetic Screening" American Institute of Biological Sciences (2007).

"Closing the Organ Gap: A Proposal for National Organ Transplantation Insurance" (with R. Bonnie), 34 J.L. Med. & Ethics 415 (2006).

“The Rise of Genetic Couplehood? Comparative View of Premarital Genetic Screening” (with B. Prainsack), 1 BioSocieties, London School of Economics 17 (2006).

“Reflections on Fairness in UNOS Allocation Policies” (with R. Bonnie), 5(4) Am J. Bioethics 28 (2005).

"Embryonic Stem Cells Research in Israel—Legal and ethical inquiry," 7 J. Biolaw & Bus. 10 (2004).

"Treating Acute Anaemia in a Jehovah's Witness in Israel: an Innovative Approach to a Medical and Legal Challenge" (with L.A. Gaitini), 21(3) Med. & L. 485 (2002).

"Do Parents Understand Emergency Department Discharge Instructions? A Survey Analysis" (with Y. Waisman et al), 5(8) Israel Med. Ass’n J. 567 (2003).

In Hebrew:

"Mental Health Services in Israel – Reflections of Medicine, Law and Society". 2 Journal of Health Law and Bioethics (with M. Mark) [Heb] (Forthcoming).

"Emerging Wrongful Life Cases – Between Mother’s Autonomy and Unborn Child’s rights". 1 Journal of Health Law and Bioethics [Heb] 10-20 (2008).

Symposium – Law & Medicine (ed. Guy I. Seidman, Erez Shaham) 6 Law & Business, 102-104 (2007).

"Western Bio-Ethics—Israel between North America and Europe," 143 Israel Med. Ass’n J. [Harefua] 142 (2004).

"Health Law in Israel—Contemporary issues," Hakyrya Ha’akademit L.J. (2004).

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