A Restatement of Health Care Law

David Orentlicher has just published "A Restatement of Health Care Law" in the Brooklyn Law Review. 



This is a great proposed project with which I would love to be involved.  A Restatement could clarify and guide legal doctrines like informed consent.  And it could "untangle" complicated doctrines like ERISA preemption.



Orentlicher notes that a Restatement could "provide courts, legislators, practitioners, and scholars with a very helpful understanding of the legal landscape for these [and other] doctrines."  Among other things, Orentlicher writes that "there would be considerable benefit alone from a thorough and authoritative description of the rules for withdrawing life-sustaining treatment."