Legal Trends in Bioethics is a column created by Sigrid Fry-Revere

Sigrid Fry-Revere

Sigrid Fry-Revere is the founder and president of the Center for Ethical Solutions, a bioethics think tank; she formerly served as Director of Bioethics Studies at the Cato Institute. She earned her BA with honors at Smith College in 1983 and went on to earn her Masters in Jurisprudence at...

 for the Journal of Clinical Ethics. The column "tracks bioethics related issues through all stages of litigation, legislation, and regulation at both the federal and state levels, as well as occasionally mentioning exceptional legal developments in other countries."

Dr. Fry-Revere started the column for the first edition of the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and authored it through the Winter edition of 1992. She took a hiatus from publishing it between 1992 and 2007. The column remained in print at the charge of various successive authors.

In the Spring of 2007, Fry-Revere resumed authorship of the column. Beginning in the Fall of 2009, the column will only appear online through the newly-created Center for Ethical Solutions

Center for Ethical Solutions

The Center for Ethical Solutions , founded by Sigrid Fry-Revere, is a 501 non-profit bioethics think tank based in Lovettsville, Virginia whose mission is to find practical solutions to controversial problems in the field of medical ethics...

. Compared with publishing in print, for which "the lag time between when events were reported and published (about 4 months) [in the Journal for Clinical Ethics] made the information less useful," Internet publication offers the potential for instantaneous dissemination. Fry-Revere therefore reasons that the Internet is an ideal medium to host the column, since "the information provided will be more up-to-date and relevant for anyone interested in tracking legal issues in bioethics."

Now edited by Alison Mathey, the column is a feature of the Center for Ethical Solutions' website. The new editions of the column and the previous ones authored by Fry-Revere are available on the website. http://ethical-solutions.org/projects/legaltrends/ Editions by other authors are available through the Journal of Clinical Ethics.

Past Authors of Legal Trends in Bioethics

The following is a list of the dates and authors of each Legal Trends in Bioethics column from the Journal of Clinical Ethics.

Publication Date	Authors	Bibliographic Information
Spring 1990	Sigrid Fry-Revere	1(1): 88-90
Summer 1990	Sigrid Fry-Revere	1(2):160-165
Fall 1990	Sigrid Fry-Revere	1(3): 252-254
Winter 1990	Sigrid Fry-Revere	1(4): 322-325
Spring 1991	Sigrid Fry-Revere	2(1): 72-75
Summer 1991	Sigrid Fry-Revere	2(2) 137-140
Fall 1991	Sigrid Fry-Revere	2(3): 207-211
Winter 1991	Sigrid Fry-Revere and Susan Onel	2(4): 286-290
Spring 1992	Sigrid Fry-Revere and Susan Onel	3(1): 83-87
Summer 1992	Sigrid Fry-Revere and Susan Onel	3(2): 151-157
Fall 1992	Sigrid Fry-Revere and Susan Onel	3(3): 242-246
Winter 1992	Sigrid Fry-Revere and Susan Onel	3(4): 317-320
Fall 1993	Dena Davis	4(3): 276-280
Winter 1993	Dena Davis	4(4): 358-362
Spring 1994	Dena Davis	5(1)): 62-62
Fall 1994	Dena Davis	5(3): 267-272
Winter 1994	Dena Davis	5(4): 367-368
Spring 1995	Dena Davis	6(1): 93-96
Summer 1995	Dena Davis	6(2): 187-192
Fall 1995	Dena Davis	6(3): 285-288
Winter 1995	Dena Davis	6(4): 380-384
Spring 1996	Dena Davis	7(1): 90-94
Summer 1996	Dena Davis	7(2): 187-190
Fall 1996	Dena Davis	7(3): 284-288
Winter 1996	Dena Davis	7(4): 365-368
Spring 1997	Dena Davis	8(1): 104-111
Summer 1997	Dena Davis	8(2): 204-207
Fall 1997	Dena Davis	8(3): 313-320
Winter 1997	Dena Davis	8(4): 405-410
Spring 1998	Dena Davis	9(1): 92-96
Summer 1998	Dena Davis	9(2): 209-211
Fall 1998	Dena Davis and Heidi P Forster	9(3): 323-332
Winter 1998	Heidi P Forster	9(4): 421-430
Spring 1999	Heidi P Forster	10(1): 66-75
Summer 1999	Heidi P Forster	10(2): 156-165
Fall 1999	Heidi P Forster	10(3): 247-258
Winter 1999	Dena Davis	10(4): 341-348
Spring 2000	Dena Davis	11(1): 94-95
Summer 2000	Dena Davis	11(2): 184-191
Fall 2000	Dena Davis and Heidi P Forster	11(3): 279-283
Winter 2000	Heidi P Forster	11(4): 373-382
Spring 2001	Heidi P Forster	21(1): 80-92
Summer 2001	Heidi P Forster	12(2): 176-185
Fall 2001	Heidi P Forster and Seema Shah	12(3): 319-330
Winter 2001	Anne L Flamm	12(4): 415-426
Spring 2002	Anne L Flamm	13(1): 85-95
Summer 2002	Anne L Flamm	13(2): 168-176
Fall 2002	Anne L Flamm	13(3): 247-254
Winter 2002	Anne L Flamm	13(4): 375-381
Spring-Summer 2003	Anne L Flamm and Deborah K Cruse	14(1-2): 137-143
Fall 2003	Anne L Flamm	14(3): 220-230
Spring 2007	Sigrid Fry-Revere	18(1): 72-90
Summer 2007	Sigrid Fry-Revere	18(2): 162-188
Fall 2007	Sigrid Fry-Revere and Sheeba Koshy	18(3): 294-328
Winter 2007	Sigrid Fry-Revere, Sheeba Koshy, and John Leppard IV	18(4): 404-424
Spring 2008	Sigrid Fry-Revere, Sheeba Koshy, Greyson C Ruback, and John Leppard IV	19(1): 72-92
Summer 2008	Sigrid Fry-Revere, Sheeba Koshy, Greyson C Ruback, Rex L West, and Nathaniel B Revere	19(2): 169-191
Fall 2008	Sigrid Fry-Revere, Nathaniel B Revere, Deborah Chen, and Sheeba Koshy	19(3): 274-302
Winter 2008	Sigrid Fry-Revere, Alison Mathey, Nathaniel B Revere, Deborah Chen, and Devon Zebrovious	19(4): 381-399
Spring 2009	Sigrid Fry-Revere, Alison Mathey, Deborah Chen, and Nathaniel B Revere	20(1): 98-111

• Adapted from the catalogue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Library at Georgetown University, with help from Martina Darragh, MLS on August 26, 2009.

External links

• Center for Ethical Solutions Website.
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Library at Georgetown University.
• The Journal of Clinical Ethics Website.