Faculty
Nadia N. SawickiAssistant Professor of LawBiography Professor Sawicki joined the Loyola faculty in 2009. Her primary fields of expertise are bioethics and health law. Her scholarship evaluates recent developments in health law from two perspectives: one through the lens of legal academic inquiry, and the other grounded in ethical theory generally with particular focus on bioethics. As a legal scholar, she considers whether legislative, judicial, and policy developments in the medical and public health arenas are consistent with existing jurisprudence - for example, whether traditional tort law conceptions of injury support the recognition of novel torts such as wrongful birth and wrongful living. In addition, she uses her training in bioethics and moral philosophy to consider these developments from a broader normative perspective - that is, by identifying the ethical principles underlying social and professional norms, and determining the extent to which lawmakers and policymakers may rightfully take these norms into account. Prof. Sawicki has published in both traditional law reviews and in peer-reviewed journals on a variety of topics, including professional discipline by state medical boards, the use of tort law as an incentive for appropriate medical treatment in end-of-life and reproductive care, and the medical community's role in supporting public health efforts. In 2008, she was recognized as an emerging health law scholar by the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics, which selected her working paper, A Theory of Discipline for Professional Misconduct, as one of four to be presented at the annual Health Law Scholars Workshop. Professor Sawicki regularly presents her work at law faculty workshops throughout the country, and at the annual conferences of the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics and the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities. She serves as a member of the editorial board for the MIT Press "Basic Bioethics" Series. Her research has also informed public policy; in 2006, she co-authored a white paper for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services providing an ethical analysis of state paternity disestablishment policies. Professor Sawicki received both a JD degree and a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable J. Curtis Joyner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She practiced law from 2005-2007 with Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia. During this period she also served as a lecturer in History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Immediately prior to joining Loyola, Professor Sawicki was the inaugural George Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught bioethics and public health law.
Education
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Loyola University Chicago
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PUBLICATIONS Professor Nadia Sawicki's SSRN Webpage
Articles in Academic Journals "Doctors, Discipline, and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications of Safe Harbor Policies," Yale Law & Policy Review, 27.1 (2008): 107-172.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed / Refereed Journals: "Without Consent: Moral Imperatives, Special Abilities, and the Duty to Treat," American Journal of Bioethics 8.8 (2008): 33-35. "Physician Disregard of Advance Directives: Wrongful Living and Tort Law Incentives," Journal of legal Medicine 29 (2008): 133-178. "Wrongful Pregnancy, Wrongful Life and Wrongful Birth," Medical Trial Technique Quarterly 51.3 (2005): 283-310.
Commissioned Reports and White Papers "Conceiving the Father: An Ethicist's Approach to Paternity Disestablishment," White Paper, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Emerging Issues in Paternity Establishment Expert Symposium (Jan. 2006). "Discussions of Health Website in Health Care Trade Publications," in Joseph Turow et at., Discussions of Health Websites in Medical and Popular Media: A Report to Consumer Reports Webwatch, a project of Consumers Union (2003), available at http://consumerwebwatch.org/pdfs/Turow_Report.pdf .
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