Scott Schweikart
@scottschweikart.bsky.social
attorney and bioethicist at the AMA; UPenn, CWRU, and WashU alum; UChicago MacLean alum. Views my own. Post about health law, bioethics, and city 📷📍Chicago
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Just saw this @greerdonley.bsky.social piece on SSRN. Haven't read it yet (downloaded!) but from the abstract it looks smart & interesting. In utero embryo fetus as property. I've LONG been irked by the law's unwillingness to call human "stuff" (not humans) property.
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A Non-Person Theory of the Fetus
If the fetus is not a constitutional person, what is it constitutionally? This Article tackles this exceptionally challenging question through an abortion-right
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November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just saw this @greerdonley.bsky.social piece on SSRN. Haven't read it yet (downloaded!) but from the abstract it looks smart & interesting. In utero embryo fetus as property. I've LONG been irked by the law's unwillingness to call human "stuff" (not humans) property.
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I spoke with @mathurashton.bsky.social of US News to discuss how AI is changing healthcare
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November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I spoke with @mathurashton.bsky.social of US News to discuss how AI is changing healthcare
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🙋♀️ i’ll be looking at removing the need of medical translation services, using artificial intelligence to replace medical translators and communicators, and the massive implications this could have on health equity and patient ooutcomes. RSVP to [email protected]
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
🙋♀️ i’ll be looking at removing the need of medical translation services, using artificial intelligence to replace medical translators and communicators, and the massive implications this could have on health equity and patient ooutcomes. RSVP to [email protected]
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You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
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My new essay is in the University of Chicago Law Review Online: “Children and the Cars That Watch Them.”
Autonomous vehicles promise freedom for kids, but also bring unprecedented surveillance.
Parental consent isn’t enough; we need substantive limits.
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Autonomous vehicles promise freedom for kids, but also bring unprecedented surveillance.
Parental consent isn’t enough; we need substantive limits.
lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...
Children and the Cars That Watch Them | The University of Chicago Law Review
Parents are turning to autonomous vehicles (AVs) to shuttle their children around, seeing them as a safe and convenient option. AVs promise increased mobility for children but bring with them unparall...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My new essay is in the University of Chicago Law Review Online: “Children and the Cars That Watch Them.”
Autonomous vehicles promise freedom for kids, but also bring unprecedented surveillance.
Parental consent isn’t enough; we need substantive limits.
lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...
Autonomous vehicles promise freedom for kids, but also bring unprecedented surveillance.
Parental consent isn’t enough; we need substantive limits.
lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...
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A Rainy Monday Night in Cleveland, Ohio
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A Rainy Monday Night in Cleveland, Ohio
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My op-ed on Oklahoma's likely unconstitutional "wokeness" exam for incoming teachers from California and New York: www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio...
In essence, this lazy exam is nothing more than a publicity push for PragerU, with Oklahoma acting as a legitimating device.
In essence, this lazy exam is nothing more than a publicity push for PragerU, with Oklahoma acting as a legitimating device.
Oklahoma's 'woke' test is surprisingly lazy | Opinion
The Ryan Walters/PragerU test reads like an exam thrown together at the last minute — it needs tougher questions from Oklahoma Constitution.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My op-ed on Oklahoma's likely unconstitutional "wokeness" exam for incoming teachers from California and New York: www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio...
In essence, this lazy exam is nothing more than a publicity push for PragerU, with Oklahoma acting as a legitimating device.
In essence, this lazy exam is nothing more than a publicity push for PragerU, with Oklahoma acting as a legitimating device.
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Not only will this amount in completely preventable death, illness, and injury, but the financial costs will be astronomical. The cost of administering a vaccine pales in comparison to the cost of treating a patient in the ICU for days or weeks.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
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September 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Not only will this amount in completely preventable death, illness, and injury, but the financial costs will be astronomical. The cost of administering a vaccine pales in comparison to the cost of treating a patient in the ICU for days or weeks.
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Tuesday's final light over the Chicago Lakefront.
September 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Tuesday's final light over the Chicago Lakefront.
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Friday’s Vibrant Sunrise over Cleveland, Ohio
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Friday’s Vibrant Sunrise over Cleveland, Ohio
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My mitochondrial DNA decays every time I listen to RFK, JR. talk. Maybe he can see it in real time while in airports.
August 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My mitochondrial DNA decays every time I listen to RFK, JR. talk. Maybe he can see it in real time while in airports.
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I am delighted to share that my job talk paper, Bias and the "Low Bar" of Relevance, will be published in Volume 114 of the California Law Review (forthcoming 2026). Feedback and comments on this draft (available on SSRN) are welcome and deeply appreciated!
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Bias and the “Low Bar” of Relevance
<p><i><span>Relevance, commonly understood as the cornerstone of evidence law, determines what the legal system acknowledges as a fact and which facts matter, t
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August 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I am delighted to share that my job talk paper, Bias and the "Low Bar" of Relevance, will be published in Volume 114 of the California Law Review (forthcoming 2026). Feedback and comments on this draft (available on SSRN) are welcome and deeply appreciated!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I photographed a Lake Erie Sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I photographed a Lake Erie Sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got
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What's the Story, Morning Glory. Today's magnificent sunrise in Chicago.
August 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
What's the Story, Morning Glory. Today's magnificent sunrise in Chicago.
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Just in time to teach Torts on Monday, a new piece from @profcrobertson.bsky.social and @wendyepstein.bsky.social.
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The Resurgence of Private Law in American Health Care | NEJM
Amid widespread deregulation, private law is poised to play an increasingly central role in the health care system. But reliance on private law comes with risk.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just in time to teach Torts on Monday, a new piece from @profcrobertson.bsky.social and @wendyepstein.bsky.social.
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Beginning my class prep in earnest for Second Amendment this fall, and cannot recommend enough that others in the same boat read or assign @brianlfrye.bsky.social's "The Peculiar Story of United States v. Miller." www.law.nyu.edu/sites/defaul...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Beginning my class prep in earnest for Second Amendment this fall, and cannot recommend enough that others in the same boat read or assign @brianlfrye.bsky.social's "The Peculiar Story of United States v. Miller." www.law.nyu.edu/sites/defaul...
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law professors will be like "i know i'm out of time" and then just...keep talking
August 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
law professors will be like "i know i'm out of time" and then just...keep talking
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If you would stop in the middle of the bar exam to help someone in a health crisis, even if it meant a failing score after months of study/risking your job, etc - YOU are who our profession needs most. THAT is zealous advocacy. THAT is moral fiber. Don’t ever let the ghouls beat it out of you.
August 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you would stop in the middle of the bar exam to help someone in a health crisis, even if it meant a failing score after months of study/risking your job, etc - YOU are who our profession needs most. THAT is zealous advocacy. THAT is moral fiber. Don’t ever let the ghouls beat it out of you.
Just read this book by Augustine Bazterrica. Very disturbing, but a brilliant book. A lot to process. Quite a commentary on human morality and cruelty.
July 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just read this book by Augustine Bazterrica. Very disturbing, but a brilliant book. A lot to process. Quite a commentary on human morality and cruelty.
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Terrific 🧵 reiterating critical pts I’ve mentioned on here repeatedly.
Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects.
As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.
Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects.
As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
July 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Terrific 🧵 reiterating critical pts I’ve mentioned on here repeatedly.
Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects.
As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.
Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects.
As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.
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and to my grandchildren, i leave my unread pdfs
July 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
and to my grandchildren, i leave my unread pdfs
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The moment has arrived!
The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website.
Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...
The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website.
Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...
July 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The moment has arrived!
The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website.
Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...
The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website.
Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...
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Today is the Race to Mackinac
July 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Today is the Race to Mackinac