- Core Faculty
Berman Institute of Bioethics - Professor of Law
University of Maryland School of Law
Leslie Meltzer Henry, JD, PhD, MSc, is a core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She is also a law professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. Her teaching and scholarship focuses on issues in constitutional law, bioethics, public health law and policy, reproductive justice, and research ethics. She is an associate editor of the Oxford Handbook for Public Health Ethics (OUP, 2016), and a contributor to the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics (OUP, 2008).
Her scholarship has been published in peer-review medical journals and leading law reviews, including the New England Journal of Medicine; University of Pennsylvania Law Review; Michigan Law Review; Georgetown Law Journal; Journal of Law and the Biosciences; Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics; American Journal of Bioethics; Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, and Journal of Health Care Law & Policy. Professor Henry has also guest-edited symposia for the Forum for Health Economics & Policy (“Strategies for Health Care Cost Containment,” 2012) and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (“Human Subjects Research Regulations: Proposals for Reform,” 2013).
Research Interests
- Public health law and policy
- Reproductive justice
- Research ethics
Education
- B.A., University of Virginia
- M.Sc., Oxford University
- J.D., Yale Law School
- Ph.D., University of Virginia
Recent Publications
Legal Obstacles to Including Adolescents in HIV Prevention Research, Journal of Medical Ethics (forthcoming 2018) (with H. Cleckler).
Ethical Considerations Concerning Amnioinfusions for Treating Fetal Bilateral Renal Agenesis, 131 Obstetrics & Gynecology 130 (2018) (with others).
Legal Complexities of Global Vaccine Compensation Systems, 317 JAMA 1911 (2017) (with Anna C. Mastroianni).
Ethics, Regulation, and Beyond: The Landscape of Research with Pregnant Women, 14 (Supp. 3) BMC Reproductive Health 173 (2017) (with others).
Research with Pregnant Women: New Insights on Legal Decision-Making, 47(3) Hastings Center Report 38 (2017) (with others).
Advancing HIV Research with Pregnant Women: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities, 30 AIDS 2261 (2016) (with others).