LESLIE FRANCIS portrait
  • Distinguished Professor, Philosophy
  • Adjunct Professor, Family And Preventive Medicine
  • Adjunct Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Adjunct Professor, Political Science Department
  • Alfred C. Emery Endowed Professor, College Of Law
  • Adjunct Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Distinguished Professor, College Of Law - Dean
  • Distinguished Professor, College Of Law

Research Statement

My research interests lie at the intersection of normative ethics, bioethics, and health law.  My primary current interests include disability and disability law, privacy especially with respect to health information, reproductive ethics, issues of justice in health care, and infectious disease and public health ethics.  I also write and teach on issues in environmental ethics and philosophy of law.

Research Keywords

  • reproductive ethics
  • privacy
  • Social Justice
  • Disability
  • Bioethics

Languages

  • French, functional.

Publications

  • Francis, Leslie P. (2023). The Reproductive Injustices of Abortion Bans for Disability. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. Vol. 51, 490-496. Published, 12/13/2023.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & John G. Francis (2023). Federalism for Bioethics?. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Vol. 33, 112-120. Published, 09/22/2023.
  • Francis, Leslie P & John G. Francis (2023). Federalism and the Right to Travel: Medical Aid in Dying and Abortion. Journal of Healthcare Law & Policy. Vol. 26(1), 49-85. Published, 03/01/2023.
  • Leslie P. Francis & Michael A. Stein (2022). "Long COVID," Bodily Systems as ADAAA Major Life Activities, and the Social Model of Disability. University of Chicago Legal Forum. Vol. 2022, 38. Published, 12/2022.
  • Silverman, Benjamin, Ari Ne'eman, David H. Strauss, Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, Leslie P. Francis, Michael Ashley Stein & Barbara E. Bierer (2022). Supported Decision-making can advance clinical research participation for people with disabilities. Nature Medicine. 4. Published, 11/2022.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02035-3
  • Plosky, Willyanne DeCormier, Ari Ne'eman, Benjamin C. Silverman, David H. Strauss, Leslie P. Francis, Michael A. Stein & Barbara E. Bierer (2022). Excluding People With Disabilities From Clinical Research: Eligibility Criteria Lack Clarity And Justification. Health Affairs. Vol. 41, 10. Published, 10/2022.
    https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10.1377/hlt...
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Fransizca Felder, Laura Davy, Rosemary Kayess, eds. (2022). Forms of Equality, Faces of Discrimination: CRPD Article 5, Article 12, and the Disability’s Difference Debate.. (pp. 18). Palgrave Macmillan. Published, 02/01/2022.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03...
  • Fleck, Leonard & Leslie P. Francis (2022). Should Whole Genome Sequencing be Publicly Funded for Everyone as a Matter of Healthcare Justice? . Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Vol. 31, 10. Published, 01/20/2022.
    https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180121000426
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2021). Supported Decision-making: the CRPD, Non-Discrimination, and Strategies for Recognizing Persons' Choices About their Good. Journal of Philosophy of Disability. Vol. 1, 20. Published, 12/01/2021.
    https://www.pdcnet.org/jpd/content/jpd_2021_0001_0...
  • Brown, Teneille R, Leslie P. Francis & James Tabery (2021). Should We Discriminate Among Discriminations?. St. Louis Journal of Health Law & Policy. Vol. 14, 31. Published, 11/04/2021.
    https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/jhlp/vol14/iss2/9/
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2021). Supported Decisions as the Patient's Own?. American Journal of Bioethics. Vol. 20, 3. Published, 10/28/2021.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265...
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2021). Employees with Intellectual Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Directions for Disability Anti-Discrimination Law?. Oklahoma Law Review. Vol. 74, 26. Published, 08/18/2021.
    https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/cgi/viewcontent....
  • Francis, John G. & Leslie P. Francis (2021). Freedom of Thought in the United States: The First Amendment, Marketplaces of Ideas, and the Internet. European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance. Vol. 8, 33. Published, 06/01/2021.
    https://brill.com/view/journals/ejcl/8/2-3/article...
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2021). Health Information Beyond Pandemic Emergencies: Privacy for Social Justice. American University Law Review. Vol. 70, 49. Published, 05/01/2021.
    https://aulawreview.org/blog/category/volume-70-an...
  • Francis, John G. & Francis, Leslie P. (2021). Sustaining Surveillance: the importance of information for public health. Springer. Published, 04/01/2021.
    https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-6...
  • Francis, Leslie P (2021). Understanding the Ethics of Natural Experiments in a Pandemic. American Journal of Public Health. Published, 02/2021.
    https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH...
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2020). Disability Nondiscrimination: An Urgent Issue for Pandemic Justice. American Journal of Public Health. Published, 10/2020.
    https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH...
  • Francis, John G. & Leslie P. Francis (2020). Fairness in the Use of Information About Carriers of Resistant Infections. Springer. Published, 10/2020.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03...
  • Nelson, Ryan H. & Francis, Leslie . (2020). Intellectual Disability and Justice . Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Published, 09/2020.
    https://kiej.georgetown.edu/intellectual-disabilit...
  • Francis, LP (2020). Disability and Partial Compliance Theory. Oxford. Published, 07/2020.
    https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfor...
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2020). Commentary: Beyond Common or Uncommon Morality. Cambridge University Press. Published, 06/2020.
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S096318012000016X
  • Although inadequate immunization is a significant public health problem, as covid-19 is an urgent reminder, it has been largely ignored in amateur youth sports. By comparison, safety issues such as concussions have drawn extensive concern. This article examines the case for immunizing athletes who participate in amateur sports for youth. It begins with risks of transmission and current gaps in addressing immunization of amateur athletes. It then considers arguments for immunization, along with objections to immunization requirements for participation. The article concludes that amateur youth sports organizations must pay far more attention to immunization than they currently do, have published policies about immunization, inform participants of these policies, and educate athletes, coaches, and officials about contagion risks. Published, 04/2020.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2020.1750960
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Anita Silvers (2020). Making "Meaningful Access" Meaningful: Equitable Healthcare for Divisive Times. Cambridge University Press. Accepted, 03/2020.
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2020). Debilitating Southeastern Community College v. Davis: Achieving the Promise of Disability Civil Rights. University of the District of Columbia Law Review. Published, 03/2020.
    https://digitalcommons.law.udc.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
  • Francis, Leslie (2020). Book Review: Jenny Reardon, The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After the Genome. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Published, 01/15/2020.
    https://kiej.georgetown.edu/jenny-reardon-the-post...
  • Francis L & Silvers A (2019). Achieving Meaningful Access to Medicaid. The Hastings Center report. Vol. 49, 3. Published, 11/01/2019.
  • Francis, Leslie P (2019). Francis, Leslie P. 2019. Illegal Substance Abuse and Protection from Discrimination in Housing and Employment: Reversing the Exclusion of Illegal Substance Abuse as a Disability. Utah Law Review. Vol. 2019, 23. Published, 09/2019.
    https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2019/iss4/5
  • Leslie P. Francis & Thomas Hurka, Ed. (2019). The Metaphor of a "Level Playing Field" in Games and Sports. Oxford University Press. Accepted, 08/2019.
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i...
  • Juergens, Alexis & Francis, Leslie P (2019). Juergens, Alexis K & LP Francis. 2018. Protecting essential information about genetic variants as trade secrets: a problem for public policy? . Journal of Law and the Biosciences 5(3): 682-705. 23. Published, 05/17/2019.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsz004
  • Leslie P. Francis (2019). Illegal Substance Abuse and Protection From Discrimination in Housing and Employment: Reversing the Exclusion of Illegal Substance Abuse as a Disability. Utah Law Review. Accepted, 05/2019.
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=3384949
  • Leslie P. Francis, Anita Silvers, Brittany Badesch & (Lori d'Agincourt-Canning & Carolyn Ells, Eds.) (2019). Women with Disabilities: Ethics of Access and Accommodation for Infertility Care in Eithical Issues in Women's HealthCare: Practice & Policy. Oxford University Press. Published, 04/2019.
    https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3370556
  • Leslie P. Francis & Anita Silvers (2019). Achieving Meaningful Access to Medicaid. Hastings Center. Published, 03/2019.
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=3372584
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2019). Maintaining the Legal Status of People with Disabilities as Parents: the ADA and the CRPD. Family Court Review. Vol. 57(1), 21-36. Published, 01/20/2019.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fc...
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Michael Squires (2018). Patient Registries and their Governance: A Pilot Study and Recommendations. Indiana Health Law Review. Vol. 16, 43-65. Published, 10/2018.
    http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/ihlr/article/v...
  • Francis, John G. & Francis, Leslie P. (2018). Privacy, Employment, and Dignity. (pp. 207-218). Springer International. Published, 07/2018.
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=3377733
  • Silvers, Anita & Leslie P. Francis (2018). Disability, Identity Justice, and the Politics of Nondiscrimination. (pp. 215-234). Rowman & Littlefield International. Published, 07/2018.
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2018). Law "Reviews"? The Changing Roles of Law Schools and the Publications They Sponsor. Marquette Law Review. Vol. 101, 1019-1044. Published, 06/01/2018.
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i...
  • Francis, Leslie P. (2018). Disability and Automation: The Promise of Cars that Automate Driving Functions. Journal of Health Care Law and Policy. Vol. 20, 669-697. Published, 05/2018.
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=3370520
  • Francis, Leslie P. 2018. Understanding disability civil rights non-categorically: The Minority Body and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Philosophical Studies 175(5): 1135-1149. Published, 05/2018.
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=3372613
  • Silvers, Anita, & Leslie P. Francis. 2017. An Americans with Disabilities Act for Everyone, and for the Ages as Well. Cardozo Law Review 39(2): 669-697. Published, 01/22/2018.
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=3372620
  • Francis, Leslie P., and John G. Francis. Privacy: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press. Published, 07/01/2017.
  • Francis, Leslie. 2017. The Significance of Injustice for Bioethics. Teaching Ethics 17, no. 1: 1-8. Published, 04/01/2017.
    https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/149
  • Francis, Leslie. 2017. Feminist Philosophy of Law, Legal Positivism, and Non-Ideal Theory. In Ann Garry, Serene Khader, and Alison Stone, ed. The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy. New York: Routledge, pp. 701-712. Published, 04/01/2017.
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=3370633
  • Francis, L.P. 2017. Transparency. In Koontz, Linda, ed. Information Privacy in the Evolving Healthcare Environment, 2d ed. HIMSS. Published, 02/01/2017.
    https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/150
  • Francis, L.P. 2017. Introduction: the state of reproductive ethics today. In Francis, L.P., ed. Handbook on Reproductive Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-42. Word count: 21,145. Published, 01/27/2017.
  • Silvers, A., and Francis, LP. 2017. Reproduction as a Civil Right. In Francis, L.P., ed. Handbook on Reproductive Ethics, Oxford University Press, pp. 182-205. Published, 01/27/2017.
  • Francis, L.P. 2017. Is Surrogacy Ethically Problematic? In Francis, L.P., ed. Handbook on Reproductive Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 388-406. Published, 01/27/2017.
  • Francis, L.P., ed. 2017. Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press. Published, 01/27/2017.
    http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxford...
  • Silvers, A., and Francis, LP. 2017. Human and civil models of rights: Healthy and ill disabled and access to health care. In Human Rights and Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. John-Stewart Gordon, Johann-Christian Poder, and Holger Burckhart. Abington, Oxon., UK: Routledge, pp. 132-153. Published, 01/18/2017.
    https://www.routledge.com/Human-Rights-and-Disabil...
  • Botkin, Jeffrey R., Leslie P. Francis & Nancy C. Rose. Concerns About Justification for Fetal Genome Sequencing. American Journal of Bioethics 17, no. 1: 23-25. Published, 01/06/2017.
    http://www.bioethics.net/journals/ajob-volume-17-i...
  • Francis, L.P. 2017. Promoting Equality in and through the Paralympics. Philosophy: Sport. Ed. R. Scott Kretchmar. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2017. p245-262. Published, 01/06/2017.
    http://go.galegroup.com/ps/eToc.do?contentModuleId...
  • Leslie P. Francis & John G. Francis (2017). Data Reuse and the Problem of Group Identity in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society Studies in Law, Politics and Society. Vol. 73, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.141 - 164. Published, 01/2017.
    https://ssrn.com/abstract=3371134
  • Francis, Leslie P. 2016. Presidential address: Applied Ethics, a misnomer for a field? Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 90: 44-58. Published, 11/15/2016.
    https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/148
  • Francis L. Silvers A. Perspectives on the meaning of “disability". AMA Journal of Ethics. 2016;18(10):1025-1033. Published, 07/13/2016.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Anita Silvers. 2016. The Health Care Workforce: How to Understand Accommodations. St. Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 9: 57-88. Published, 04/25/2016.
  • Silvers A, Francis L, Badesch B. Reproductive Rights and Access to Reproductive Services for Women with Disabilities. AMA Journal of Ethics. 2016; 18:430-437. Published, 04/01/2016.
    http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2016/04/msoc1-...
  • Francis, LP, and JG Francis. 2016. Justice and Research on Controlled Substances with HIV+ Persons. AJOB. 16, no. 4: 52-54. Published, 04/01/2016.
    http://www.bioethics.net/journals/ajob-volume-16-n...
  • Francis, LP. 2016. Title IX: An Incomplete Effort to Achieve Equality in Sports. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 43, no. 1: 83-99. Published, 02/01/2016.
  • Francis, LP, Craig R, George E. 2016. The FDA’s Troubling Failure to Use its Authority to Regulate Genetically Modified Foods. Food and Drug Law Journal 71: 105-134. Published, 02/01/2016.
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i...
  • Beesley SJ, Hopkins RO, Francis LP, Chapman D, Johnson J, Johnson N, Brown SM, Let Them In: Family Presence during Intensive Care Unit Procedures., Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016 Jul;13(7):1155-9. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201511-754OI. Published, 01/2016.
  • Francis, LP. 2015. Commentary: Disability and philosophy: applying ethics in circumstances of injustice. Journal of Medical Ethics 42(1): 35-36. Published, 12/07/2015.
  • Francis, L.P. Risk Management and Conflicts of Interest. Ch. 6 in Ethics and Risk Management, ed. Lina Svedin. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing. Published, 04/01/2015.
    https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/151
  • Francis, LP. 2015. Privacy and Health Information: The United States and the European Union. University of Kentucky Law Review 103: 419-431. Published, 02/01/2015.
  • Francis, L.P. 2015. Preview: Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center. ABA Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 4(42): 153-157. Published, 01/15/2015.
  • Disability and Assisted Death. Pp. 486-499 in The Routledge Companion to Bioethics, ed. John D. Arras, Elizabeth Fenton, and Rebecca Kukla. New York & London: Routledge (2015). Published, 01/2015.
  • Francis, L. (2015). Creation Ethics and the harms of existence. BMJ. Published, 01/2015.
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i...
  • Leslie P. Francis (2014). Genomic Knowledge Sharing: A Review of the Ethical and Legal Issues. Appl Transl Genom. 2014 Dec 1; 3(4): 111–115. Published, 09/2014.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC48888...
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Francis, John G. 2014. “Trafficking in Human Beings: Partial Compiance Theory, Enforcement Failure, and Obligations to Victims,” pp. 171-205, in Meyers, Diana, ed., Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press. Published, 06/2014.
    https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/147
  • Francis, LP. 2014. Adult Consent to Continued Participation in Patient Registries, St Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 7(2): 389-405. Published, 06/2014.
  • Stein, M; Silvers, A; Areheart, B; Francis, L. 2014. “Accommodating Every Body.” University of Chicago Law Review 81(2): 689-757. Published, 04/2014.
  • Confidentiality and Sharing Information when Adolescents are Seriously Ill, Michigan State University Journal of Medicine and Law (2014). Published, 02/2014.
  • Creation Ethics and the Harms of Existence, Journal of Medical Ethics ( 2014). Published, 02/2014.
  • Are IVF Risk-Sharing Programs Ethical? http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2014/01/ecas3-1401.html. Virtual Mentor. 2014; 16(1):17-23. Published, 01/2014.
  • Silvers, Anita, and Francis, Leslie. Human Rights, Civil Rights: Prescribing Disability Discrimination Prevention in Packaging Essential Health Benefits. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 42: 781-791 (Winter 2013). Published, 12/2013.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Francis, John G. 2013. “HIV Treatment as Prevention: Not an Argument for Continuing Criminalization of HIV Transmission,” International Journal of Law in Context 9(4): 520 - 534 (2013). Published, 12/2013.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Silvers, Anita. “Infanticide, Moral Status, and Moral Reasons: the importance of context,” Journal of Medical Ethics 39(5):289-92 (2013). Published, 05/2013.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & John G. Francis. 2013. Data Citizenship and Informed Consent. AJOB 13(4): 38-39. Published, 03/2013.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/152651...
  • Francis, J & Francis, L. “Privacy, Confidentiality, and Justice: Using Large-Scale Sets of Health Data to Improve Public Health,” symposium on “Technology and New Challenges to Privacy,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 2013. Published, 01/2013.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Patricia Smith. “Feminist Philosophy of Law,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [online] (14,139 words). The Stanford Encyclopedia is the reference work in the field of philosophy, featuring the best-known authorities in the field. Published, 01/2013.
  • Francis, Leslie P. “Transparency,” Ch. 8 in Information Privacy in the Evolving Healthcare Environment, ed. 
Linda Koontz, HIMSS 2013. Published, 01/2013.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Francis, John G. “Informatics and Public Health Surveillance,” in Bioinformatics Law: Legal Issues for Computational Biology in the Post-Genome Era, ed. Jorge Contreras & James Cuticcia (American Bar Association, 2012). Published, 12/2012.
  • Francis, Leslie P., “When Patients Interact with EHRs: Problems of Privacy and Confidentiality,” Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy 12(2): 171-199 (8474 words). Published, 09/2012.
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id...
  • Francis, Leslie P., “On Privacy,” (to be published in the proceedings of the July 2012 IVR conference). Published, 07/2012.
  • Review of Licia Carlson, The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections. Social Theory and Practice 38(2): 370-376 (2012). Published, 04/2012.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Anita Silvers. 2012. A Wrongful Case for Parental Tort Liability. AJOB 14(4): 15-17. Published, 03/2012.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/152651...
  • Justice in Pandemic Planning, Chapter 41 in Rhodes, Battin & Silvers, Medicine and Social Justice, 2d ed., Oxford University Press, 2012. Published, 02/13/2012.
  • Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice, Ch. 29 in Rhodes, Battin & Silvers, Medicine and Social Justice, Oxford University Press 2012. Published, 02/13/2012.
  • Francis, LP. 2012. Book Review, Alicia Ouellette, Toward a Disability Conscious Bioethics,” Journal of Legal Medicine 33: 285-303. Published, 02/2012.
  • Francis L & Francis J. 2011. “Criminalizing Health Related Behaviors Dangerous to Others? Disease Transmission, Transmission-Facilitation, and the Importance of Trust.” Criminal Law and Philosophy 6(1): 47-63, DOI: 10.1007/s11572-011-9136-7. Published, 12/2011.
  • Francis, Leslie P. 20ll. “Skeletons in the Family Medical Closet,” St. Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 4(2): 371-396. Published, 07/2011.
  • Silvers A & Francis L. 2011. Cloudy Crystal Balls do not "Gray" Babies Make. AJOB 11(20: 36-39. Published, 02/2011.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Francis, J.G. “Stateless crimes, legitimacy, and international criminal law: the case of organ trafficking.” Criminal Law and Philosophy 4(3): 283-295 (2010). Published, 10/2010.
  • Francis, Leslie P. & Francis, J.G. “Group compromise: perfect cases make problematic generalizations.” American Journal of Bioethics 10(9):25-27 (2010). Published, 10/2010.
  • Francis, Leslie P., “The Physician-Patient Relationship and a National Health Information Network", Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 38: 36-46 (2010). Published, 07/2010.
  • Silvers, Anita and Francis, Leslie P. “Thinking about the good: reconfiguring metaphysics (or not) for people with cognitive disabilities.” In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson, eds. Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell 2010) (reprinted from Metaphilosophy). Published, 06/2010.
  • Francis, Leslie P. “You’re born with your genes?: justice and protection against discrimination in the use of genetic information.” Mt. Sinai Journal of Medicine 77(2): 188-196, DOI: 10.1002/msj.201 (2010). Published, 03/2010.
  • Francis, Leslie P., and Anita Silvers, “Bringing Age Discrimination and Disability Discrimination Together: Achieving Meaningful Access,” Marquette Elders Advisor 11(1): (2010). Published, 02/2010.
  • Francis, Leslie P., and Anita Silvers, “Bringing Age Discrimination and Disability Discrimination Together: Achieving Meaningful Access,” Marquette Elders Advisor 11(1): (2010). Published, 01/2010.
  • L.P. and J.G. Francis (2010). International Criminal Courts, the Rule of Law, and the Prevention of Harm: Building Justice in Times of Injustice, pp. 58-74 in Larry May & Zach Hoskins, eds., International Criminal Law and Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Published, 11/2009.
  • L.P.Francis (2009). Understanding Autonomy in Light of Intellectual Disability, pp. 200-216 in Kimberley Brownlee and Adam Cureton, eds. Disability and Disadvantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Published, 10/2009.
  • J.G.& L.P. Francis (2009). Rights Variation within a Federal System: the Importance of Mobility. Political Research Quarterly, epub ahead of print, doi:10.1177/1065912909340893. Published, 07/17/2009.
  • A. Silvers and L.P. Francis (2009). Thinking About the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (or Not) for People with Cognitive Disabilities. Metaphilosophy 40(3-4): 475-499. Published, 07/2009.
  • L.P. Francis, M.P. Battin, J. Jacobson, C. Smith (2009). Syndromic Surveillance and Patients as Victims and Vectors. Bioethical Inquiry 6: 187-195. DOI 10.10-07/s11673-009-9163-4. Published, 06/09/2009.
  • Francis, Leslie P., Reciprocity and Environmental Obligations, Hofstra Law Review, 2009. Published, 01/2009.
  • Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson & Charles Smith, The Patient as Victim and Vector: Bioethics and Infectious Disease, Oxford University Press, 2009. Published, 01/2009.
  • Silvers, Anita, and Leslie P. Francis, “Playing God With Baby Doe: Quality of Life, Sanctity of Life and Unpredictable Life—Standards at Start of Life,” Georgia State Law Review 25: 1061-1094 (Summer 2009). Published, 2009.
  • M.P.Battin, L.P.Francis, J.Jacobson, C. Smith (2009). The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease. New York: Oxford University Press. Published, 2009.
  • M.P.Battin, L.P. Francis, J. Jacobson & C. Smith (2009). New York: Oxford University Press. Published, 11/2008.
  • Francis, Leslie P., Privacy and Confidentiality: The Importance of Context, Monist 91(1) (January 2008). Published, 01/2008.
  • Silvers, Anita, and Leslie P. Francis, No Disability Standpoint Here!: Law School Faculties and the Invisibility Problems, University of Pittsburgh Law Review (2008). Published, 01/2008.
  • Francis, Leslie P. and Anita Silvers, Debilitating Alexander v. Choate: "Meaningful Access" to Health Care for People with Disabilities, 45 Fordham Urban Law Journal 101 (2008). Published, 01/2008.
  • Terry, Nicholas P. and Leslie P. Francis, Confidentiality and Electronic Medical Records, 2007 Illinois Law Review 681-735. Published, 10/12/2007.
  • Francis, Leslie P. and Anita Silvers, Liberalism and Individually Scripted Accounts of the Good: Meeting the Challenge of Dependent Agency, Social Theory and Practice (Spring 2007): 311-334. Published, 03/2007.
  • Francis, Leslie P. and Anita Silvers, (Mis)framing Schiavo as Discrimination against People with Disabilities, University of Miami Law Review 61: 789-820 (2007). Published, 01/2007.
  • Silvers, Anita and Leslie P. Francis, A New Start on the Road Not Taken: Driving With Lane to Head Off Disability-Based Denials of Rights, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 23: 33-94 (2007). Published, 01/2007.
  • Smith, Charles B., Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, & Jay A. Jacobson, Should Rapid Tests for HIV Infection Now Be Mandatory During Pregnancy? Global Differences in Scarcity and a Dilemma of Technological Advance, Developing World Bioethics (2007). Published, 01/2007.
  • Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life, edited by Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, and Bruce L. Landesman. International Library of Medicine, Ethics, and Law. Ashgate, 2007. Published, 01/2007.
  • Leslie P. Francis, Discrimination in Medical Practice, in Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers, and Leslie P. Francis, Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, Oxford and New York: Blackwell's, 2006, pp. 162-180. Published, 01/2006.
  • Francis, Leslie P., M.P. Battin, J. Botkin, J. Jacobson, C. Smith, Infectious Disease and the Ethics of Research: The Moral Significance of Communicability, in Matti Hayry, Tuija Takala, and Peter Herissone-Kelly, eds. Ethics in Biomedical Research: International Perspectives, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. Published, 01/2006.
  • Jay A. Jacobson, M.P. Battin, Jeffrey Botkin, Leslie P. Francis, James Mason, & Charles B. Smith, Vertical Transmission of Infectious Disease and Genetic Disorders, in Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson, eds., Public Health Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Published, 01/2006.
  • Francis, Leslie P., Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson, and Charles Smith, and Jeffrey Botkin, How Infectious Disease Got Left Out - and What This Omission Might Have Meant for Bioethics, Bioethics 19(4): 287-322 (2005). Published, 08/2005.
  • Silvers, Anita and Leslie P. Francis, Justice Through Trust: Disability and the 'Outlier Problem' in Social Contract Theory, Ethics 116: 40-77 (2005). Published, 01/2005.
  • Smith, Charles B., Battin, M.P. Botkin, J., Francis, L.P. & Jacobson, J., (2004), Are There Characteristics of Infectious Diseases that Raise Ethical Issues? Developing World Bioethics 4:1, pp. 1-16. Published, 12/2004.
  • Francis, Leslie P., Employment and Intellectual Disability, 8 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 299 (2004). Published, 01/2004.
  • Francis, Leslie P., Global Systemic Problems and Interconnected Duties, Environmental Ethics 25: 115-128 (2003). Published, 01/2003.
  • Leslie P. and John G. Francis, Land Wars: Property, Community and Land Use in an Interconnected World, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. Published, 01/2003.
  • Francis, Leslie P., Disability, in Frey and Wellman, eds., A Companion to Applied Ethics (Blackwell's 2002). Published, 01/2002.
  • Americans with Disabilities: Implications for Individuals and Institutions, ed. Leslie Francis and Anita Silvers, Routledge, 2000. Published, 01/2000.