I'm happy to report the publication of the SMU Law Review's Symposium, "Cruzan and the 'Right to Die'" in Vol. 73, No, 1 (2020). The authors who wrote for the Symposium are the thought leaders around the country. I want to thank them for their wonderful scholarship and urge everyone reading this to check out their articles. (All are available in PDF from the link above.)
The motivating idea behind the Symposium was "where are we now, 30 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Cruzan? Here are our authors and their topics:
- Foreword: Cruzan and the “Right to Die”
Thomas Wm. Mayo - First Man and Second Woman: Reflections on the Anniversaries of Apollo 11 and Cruzan
George J. Annas - Cruzan’s Legacy in Autonomy
Kathy L. Cerminara - Remaking the “Right to Die”: Give Me Liberty but Do Not Give Me Death
Janet L. Dolgin - Beyond Cruzan: Dementia and the Best Interests Standard
Rebecca Susan Dresser - Cruzan and the Other Evidentiary Standard: A Reconsideration of a Landmark Case Given Advances in the Classification of Disorders of Consciousness and the Evolution of Disability Law
Joseph J. Fins - A History of the Law of Assisted Dying in the United States
Alan Meisel - Cruzan and Surrogate Decision-Making
David Orentlicher - Video Advance Directives: Growth and Benefits of Audiovisual Recording
Thaddeus Mason Pope - The Legacy of Cruzan: Balancing the Moral Agency of Surrogates and the State
Margie Hodges Shaw, Timothy E. Quill, and Bernard L. Sussman
