Mary Ann Chirba holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Colgate University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School. She holds a Doctorate of Science in Health Policy and Management as well as a Master's in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Since 1984, Professor Chirba has taught a variety of courses at Boston College Law School, including Legal Reasoning Research & Writing, Health Care Law and Policy I and II, Advocacy Writing, Advanced Legal Writing, and Product Liability Law. In 1999, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Legal Reasoning, Research & Writing at Boston College Law School and continues to teach a variety of health law courses. Professor Chirba currently lectures on various health law issues at Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital of Boston, and Tufts Medical School. A former litigator, she has also been certified by the American Health Law Association as a mediator and arbitrator. In past years, Professor Chirba has been an adjunct faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she taught courses on Pharmaceutical Product Safety, “The Tobacco Wars,” Current Developments in Health Law, Managed Care Law & Regulation, and Medical Malpractice & Risk Management. Her current research interests are varied and include legal protections for disabled children, the use of law and regulation to promote medical product safety, emerging federal and international guidelines for stem cell research, and federal and state health care reform, including ERISA preemption of state efforts to regulate managed care.
Health Law and Policy
Individual And Group Coverage Under The ACA: More Patches To The Federal-State Crazy Quilt, Health Affairs Blog (2013)
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Throughout the 2012 Presidential campaign, Republican contenders criticized the Affordable Care Act...
Life is a Highway: Severability of the Affordable Care Act (with Alice Noble), Health Affairs Blog (2012)
On the Individual Mandate Argument: Beyond Uncompensated Care (with Alice Noble), Health Affairs Blog (2012)
ERISA Preemption of Provider Reimbursement Litigation Post-PPACA:Some Things (Unfortunately) Never Change (with Alice Noble) (2012)
Legal Analysis and Writing
Do Not Edit When You Need to Revise (with E. Joan Blum, Elisabeth Keller, and Judith B. Tracy), Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2010)
Legal Education
What Legal Employers Want and Really Need (with E. Joan Blum, Elisabeth Keller, and Judith Tracey), The Second Draft (2011)
Legal Profession
What Legal Employers Want and Really Need (with E. Joan Blum, Elisabeth Keller, and Judith Tracey), The Second Draft (2011)
Administrative Law
Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Judicial Review of Provisions Regarding Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis (with Frederick Anderson, E. Donald Elliott, Cynthia Farina, Ernest Gelhorn, John D. Graham, C. Boyden Gray, Jeffrey R. Holmstead, Ronald M. Levin, Lars Noah, Katherine Rhyne, and Jonathan Weiner), Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum (1999)
Civil Rights and Discrimination
Criminal Procedure
Videotaping Testimony of Child Witnesses in Sexual Offense Cases, Massachusetts Law Review (1986)
Labor and Employment Law
Managing the Competition: Massachusetts Initiatives in Workers' Compensation (with Troyen Brennan) (1996)
Selected Professional Activities
Regulation vs. The Practice of Medicine, STEMSO: The International Stem Cell Society Annual Conference (2013)
Professor Chirba presented on the impact of federal and cross-border regulation on the development and...