Ann Massie

Email: massiea@wlu.edu
Office: 433 Sydney Lewis Hall
Phone: 540-458-8519
Fax: 540-458-8488

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Ann MacLean Massie

Professor of Law

B.A. 1966, Duke University, Phi Beta Kappa; M.A. 1967, University of Michigan; J.D. 1971, University of Virginia; Order of the Coif; Virginia Law Review.

Publications

SSRN Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Suicide on Campus: The Appropriate Legal Responsibility of College Personnel, 91 Marquette L. Rev. 625 (2008)

In Defense of the Professional Standard of Care: A Response to Carter Williams on "Evidence-Based Medicine", 61 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 535 (2004). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

So-Called "Partial-Birth Abortion" Bans: Bad Medicine? Maybe. Bad Law? Definitely!, 59 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 301 (1998). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Regulating Choice: A Constitutional Law Response to Professor John A. Robertson's Children of Choice, 52 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 135 (1995) (Symposium on John A. Robertson's Children of Choice). (reprinted in Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction (Bonnie Steinbock ed., Ashgate/Dartmouth 2001)) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Religion Clauses and Parental Health Care Decisionmaking for Children: Suggestions for a New Approach, 21 Hastings Const. L.Q. 725 (1994). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Withdrawal of Treatment for Minors in a Persistent Vegetative State: Parents Should Decide, 35 Ariz. L. Rev. 173 (1993). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Restricting Surrogacy to Married Couples: A Constitutional Problem? The Married-Parent Requirement in the Uniform Status of Children of Assisted Conception Act, 18 Hastings Const. L.Q. 487 (1991). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Faith in the Republic: A Frances Lewis Law Center Conversation, 45 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 467 (1988). (with Ann MacLean Massie and Stanley Hauerwas et al.) (Available at: Hein-Online)

Newspapers, Website, Magazines, and other general media

What was the Supreme Court up to?, Roanoke Times, July 3, 2005, at Horizon 3.


For the Media

Professor Massie is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• Biomedical Ethics (e.g., stem cell, reproductive technologies, etc.)
• Church-state Issues 
• Constitutional Law 

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