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The Dialogue between Biomedicine and Law in an “IntraAmerican Transnational Perspective”, Boston College Law School Lectures and Presentations (2009)

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Bioethics and Law in the United States: A Legal Process Perspective, Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (2009)

Not DEA'd Yet: Gonzalez v. Oregon, Hastings Center Report (2006)

Fédéralisme et dialogue sur l'égalité: Une comparaison des droits des Etats-Unis et de l'Union européenne (with Sophie Robin-Olivier), Droit et Cultures (2005)

De Quinlan à Schiavo: le droit à la mort et le droit à la vie en droit américain, Revue trimestrielle de droit civil (2004)

Normativity and Biomedicine in the United States of America, Journal International de Bioéthique (2004)

Suicide médicalement assisté: l'exemple de l'Oregon, Le Monde (2003)

Decisioni di Vita o di Morte: Giudici vs. Legislatori Come Fonti del Diritto Bioetica, Ragion Practica (2002)

Nutrition and Hydration in PVS Individuals: the Cruzan, Bland and Englaro Cases, Notizie di Politeia: Rivista di Etica e Scelte Pubbliche (2002)

Regulating Bioethics with Judge-Made Law: The American Experience, Notizie di Politeia: Rivista di Etica e Scelte Pubbliche (2002)

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Baker v. State and the Promise of the New Judicial Federalism (with Lawrence Friedman), Boston College Law Review (2001)

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Competency and Common Law: Why and How Decision-Making Capacity Criteria Should Be Drawn from the Capacity-Determination Process, Psychology, Public Policy and Law 6 (June 2000): 373-381. (2000)

Les aspects contractuels de la relation du médecin et du patient en droit americain, Gazette du palais (2000)

Assisted Dying, Trial (1999)

Review of The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources and Origins, by Neil Cogan, and Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents, by Jack N. Rakove, Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Journal (1998)

Physician Assisted Suicide Should Be Legalized and Regulated, Boston Bar Journal (1997)

Blood Transfusions, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the American Patients’ Rights Movement, Journal of Chinese and Comparative Law (1997)

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Pleading for Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Courts, Western New England Law Review (1997)

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A Model State Act to Authorize and Regulate Physician-Assisted Suicide (with Clyde Bergstresser, Dan W. Brock, Garrick F. Cole, Nancy S. Dorfman, Judith A. Johnson, Lowell E. Schnipper, James Vorenberg, and Sidney H. Wanzer), Harvard Journal on Legislation (1996)

Review of When Death is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context, by the New York State Task Force on Life and Law, International Digest of Health Legislation (1995)

Review of State Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed., by Robert F. Williams, Temple Law Review (1994)

Blood, Sin, and Death: Jehovah's Witnesses and the American Patient's Rights Movement, Revue trimestrielle du ressort de la Cour d'Appel de Versailles (1993)

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The Supreme Judicial Court in its Fourth Century: Meeting the Challenge of the "New Constitutional Revolution", Massachusetts Law Review (1992)

Why Withdrawal of Life-Support for PVS Patients is Not a Family Decision, Law, Medicine and Health Care (1991)

On Taking Substituted Judgment Seriously, Hastings Center Report (1990)

Abortion and the Legal Process in the United States: An Overview of the Post-Webster Legal Landscape, Law, Medicine and Health Care (1989)

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On Knowing One's Chains and Decking Them With Flowers: Limits on Patient Autonomy in 'The Silent World of Doctor and Patient', Western New England Law Review (1987)

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Fetal Research: The Question in the States, Hastings Center Report (1985)

The Case for the Courts, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1984)

Dissent: Criminal Records Should Not Be Sealed, Docket (1984)

'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, and the Concept of Person in the Law, Law, Medicine and Health Care (1983)

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Medicine and Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards and Procedural Protections for Medical Decision-Making Within the American Family, Family Law Quarterly (1983)

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Licensure of Health Care Professionals: The Consumer's Case for Abolition, American Journal of Law and Medicine (1983)

The Mixed Roles of the Guardian Ad Litem, Guardianship News (1981)

To Die Before the Gods Please: Legal Issues Surrounding Euthanasia and the Elderly, Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (1981)

The Open Society and Its Enemies: Growing Professional Secrecy in Massachusetts, Medicolegal News (1980)

Review of Future Issues in Health Care: Social Policy and the Rationing of Medical Services, by David Mechanic, American Journal of Law and Medicine (1979)

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Medical Paternalism and the Rule of Law: A Reply to Dr. Relman, American Journal of Law and Medicine (1979)

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Assuring "Detached But Passionate Investigation and Decision": The Role of Guardians Ad Litem in Saikewicz-type Cases, American Journal of Law and Medicine (1978)

Review of Toward Equal Justice: A Comparative Study of Legal Aid in Modern Societies, by Mauro Cappelletti, James Gordley and Earl Johnson Jr., New Directions in Legal Services (1977)

Will You be Missing a Few Million Clients?, Student Lawyer (1976)

Review of Lawyers' Ethics in an Adversary System, by Monroe H. Freedman, New Directions in Legal Services (1976)

Quality Control Moves to Center Stage (with Richard Hofrichter), New Directions in Legal Services (1976)

Review of Verdicts on Lawyers, edited by Ralph Nader and Mark Green, Juris Doctor (1976)

Lawyer Advertising Gets Press, New Directions in Legal Services (1976)

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Live Organ and Tissue Transplants from Minor Donors in Massachusetts (with Margot Botsford and Garrick F. Cole), Boston University Law Review (1975)

Issues Regarding the Interface between Group Legal Services and Clinial Legal Education, Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility (1974)

Real Freedom of Choice for the Consumer of Legal Services: Mr. Dooley and the Closed Panel Option (with Garrick F. Cole), Massachusetts Law Quarterly (1973)

Neighborhood Legal Services: Friend or Foe?, Journal of Housing (1971)

Case Note: Federal Remedies: Declaratory and Injunctive Relief against Unconstitutional State Criminal Proceedings, Human Rights (1971)

Bureaucratism in Legal Service Projects: The Case for a Mandatory Time Limit on Tenure, Legal Aid Briefcase (1970)

Confession of Judgment: The Futures Market in Due Process Rights in Pennsylvania (with Joel G. Weisberg), Clearinghouse Review (1970)

Droit Constitutionnel et Bioéthique: l'Expérience Américaine (1997)

Taking a Constitutional: A Walking Tour of Boston's Constitutional History (1987)

The Use/Nonuse/Misuse of Applied Social Research in the Courts (1980)

The Law Student's Stake in the Consumer Movement Toward Improved Legal Services Delivery (1976)

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Blood Transfusions, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the American Patients’ Rights Movement, Alternatives to Blood Transfusion in Transfusion Medicine (2011)

The Right to Die: Themes and Variations, Il Governo Del Corpo (2011)

The Dialogue between Biomedicine and Law in an “IntraAmerican Transnational Perspective”, Biomedical Sciences and the Law (2010)

Legal Methodologies for Maximizing Freedom of Scientific Research, Proceedings of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research: Rome, February 16-18, 2006 (2007)

La théorie de l’intention originelle, la sincérité dans la rédaction des opinions des juges et les références à des sources juridiques étrangères dans le processus d’interprétation de la constitution aux États-Unis, L’Architecture du droit: mélanges en l’honneur de Michel Troper, études coordonnées par Denys de Béchillon [et al.] (2006)

Hastening Death: The Seven Deadly Sins of the Status Quo, Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care & Patient Choice (2004)

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Life and Death Decision-Making: Judges v. Legislators as Sources of Law in Bioethics, Science, Law and the Courts in Europe (2004)

Normativité et Biomédecine aux Etats-Unis, Normativité et Biomédecine (2003)

Quale etica per i guidici?, Etica e deontologia giudiziaria: Atti del Convegno internazionale in onore di Pietro Rescigno, a cura di Giovanna Visintini e Sergio Marotta (2003)

Rapport de Charles Baron, Constitution et Bioéthique Medicale (1998)

The American Patients' Rights Movement and Bloodless Surgery, Bloodless Surgery: Surgical and Anaesthetic Aspects, Legal and Ethical Issues, International Symposium, 1996 (1997)

Aspects Relatifs au Mouvement des Droits des Malades aux Etats-Unis, Consentement Eclairé et Transfusion Sanguine (1996)

L' Interpretazione Costitutzionale negli Stati Americani, Analsi e Diritto: Ricerche di Giurisprudenza Analitica (1996)

Legislative Regulation of Fetal Experimentation: On Negotiating Compromise in Situations of Ethical Pluralism, Genetics and the Law, III (1985)

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The Concept of Person in the Law, Defining Human Life: Medical, Legal and Ethical Implications (1983)

Professional Ethical Issues Confronting the Bench and Bar in 'Mental Disability' Cases, Guardianships, Conservatorships, Civil Commitment and Rights of Institutionalized Persons (1982)

Euthanasia Decisions in the Courts: The Post-Saikewicz Experience, Genetics and the Law, II (1980)

Delivery of Legal Services to Low and Middle Income Consumers in the United States, Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Legal Aid and Legal Services and the Need for International Exchange of Information, October 25-28, 1976, London (1977)

'Voluntary' Sterilization of the Mentally Retarded, Genetics and the Law (1976)

Bioethics and Law in the United States: A Legal Process Perspective, Roger Williams University (2013)

Transnational Law in Support of Science; Science in Support of Transnational Law, The Science for Peace Conference session on Science and the Process of Formation of Transnational Law at a Global Level (2009)

Elected to the Board of Directors of the Westport River Watershed Alliance (2009)

Appointed to three year term on Finance Committee of the Town of Westport, Massachusetts (2009)

The Dialogue between Biomedicine and Law in an “IntraAmerican Transnational Perspective”, Conference on Science, Biomedicine and Law: A Dialogue between Disciplines, Cultures, and Languages (2009)

Good without God?, Panel discussion on Conscience and Religious Traditions convened prior to the 2008 annual symposium of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (2008)

District of Columbia v. Heller and Fourteenth Amendment: What Impact on the States?, Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Association of City Solicitors and Town Counsel (2008)

Bioethics and Law in the United States: A Legal Process Perspective, Advanced Course of Constitutional Law/Bioethics and Human Rights at The Research Center for European and Comparative Constitutional Law (DIPEC) (2007)

Terrorisme et function de juger, Centre de Théorie du Droit et du Centre de recherche sur les droits fondamentaux (2006)

Appointed to the Scientific Committee of the European Centre for Life Sciences, Health, and the Courts at the Collegio Ghislieri at the University of Pavia, University of Pavia (2004)