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News Tip: Experts Available to Comment on Supreme Court and Health Care Law

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled on March 26 to begin hearing three days of arguments over President Obama's sweeping health care reform law.

Donald TaylorAssociate professor of public policy studieshttp://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/dtaylorTaylor conducts research on aging and comparative health systems, including Medicare, long-term care and health policy. He blogs about health care policy at http://donaldhtaylorjr.wordpress.com/.Neil SiegelProfessor of law and political science, director of the Program in Public Law http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/siegelSiegel is an expert on constitutional law and theory who served as special counsel to former Sen. Joseph Biden during the confirmation hearings of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. During the October 2003 term, Siegel clerked for associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Siegel has written four papers on the constitutionality of the ACA's individual mandate provision. Barak RichmanProfessor of law http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/richman Richman teaches Healthcare Law and Policy, has written three recent articles on health care issues and recently co-edited a symposium volume of Law and Contemporary Problems titled "Who Pays? Who Benefits? Distributional Issues in Health Care."Clark HavighurstWilliam Neal Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Lawhttp://www.law.duke.edu/fac/havighurst Havighurst taught courses in health care law and policy, antitrust law and economic regulation at the Duke School of Law from 1964 until his retirement in 2005. His scholarly writings include articles on most phases of regulation in the health services industry. He continues to write on health care reform and recently co-edited a symposium volume of Law and Contemporary Problems, "Who Pays? Who Benefits? Distributional Issues in Health Care."Stuart BenjaminDouglass B. Maggs Professor of Law http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/benjamin Benjamin is an expert on First Amendment and administrative law who has recently written on the ACA's individual mandate in "Bootstrapping," 75 Law & Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2012).Stephen SachsAssistant professor of law http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/sachsA scholar of constitutional law, Sachs has recently written on the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act in "Response to Professor Chemerinsky," 75 Law & Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2012).