Articles

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What Legal Employers Want and Really Need (with E. Joan Blum, Elisabeth Keller, and Judith Tracey), The Second Draft (2011)
 

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Drawing Lines in Shifting Sands: The U.S. Supreme Court's Mixed Messages on ERISA Preemption Imperil Health Care Reform, Journal of Legislation (2010)

This article explains how and why the U.S. Supreme Court’s increasingly erratic preemption jurisprudence has...

 

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An Uncertain Risk and an Uncertain Future: Assessing the Legal Implications of Mercury Amalgram Fillings. (with Carolyn M. Welshhans), Boston College Law School Faculty Papers (2004)

Trying to buy a mercury thermometer at the local pharmacy these days will result in...

 

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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)
 
The Critical Role of Erisa in State Health Reform (with Troyen A. Brennan), Health Affairs (1994)
 

Contributions to Books

Legal Issues, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (2009)
 

Popular Press

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Individual And Group Coverage Under The ACA: More Patches To The Federal-State Crazy Quilt, Health Affairs Blog (2013)

From the introduction:

Throughout the 2012 Presidential campaign, Republican contenders criticized the Affordable Care Act...

 

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Life is a Highway: Severability of the Affordable Care Act (with Alice Noble), Health Affairs Blog (2012)
 

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On the Individual Mandate Argument: Beyond Uncompensated Care (with Alice Noble), Health Affairs Blog (2012)
 
Do Not Edit When You Need to Revise (with E. Joan Blum, Elisabeth Keller, and Judith B. Tracy), Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2010)
 

Works in Progress

Health Care Reform Treatise, Lexis-Nexis/ Matthew Bender (2012)
 

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...

 
Panelist, Adult Adipose Stem Cell Therapies: Advances and Challenges, Genetics Policy Institute, World Stem Cell Summit: Connect, Collaborate, Cure (2012)
 
Adult Stem Cell Therapies: Regulatory Pathways, International Federation for Adipose Therapeutics and Science (2012)
 
The Supreme Court and Election Year Politics: Myths vs. Reality in the Healthcare Debate, Joshua A. Guberman Lecture, Brandeis University (2012)
 
Physician Reimbursement and Other Payment Reforms under the Affordable Care Act, Brandeis-Tufts University MD / MPH program (2012)
 

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