Website of Professor Peter Hammer

 

 

Research

 

Selected Publications & Works in Progress

Law Review Articles
The Architecture of Health Care Markets: Economic Sociology and Antitrust Law, Hous. J. Health L & Policy (forthcoming 2007)(working draft – add file)

The Trials of Tenofovir: Mediating the Ethics of Third-World Research, 4 U. Santa Clara J. Int’L. (2006); 9 U. Tech. Sydney  L. Rev. 184 (2005) (with Tammy Sue Lundstrom)

Medical Code Blue or Blue Light Special: Where is the Market for Indigent Care?, 6 J.L. Soc'y 82 (2005).

Monopsony as an Agency and Regulatory Problem in Health Care, 71 Antitrust L. J.949(2004) (with William M. Sage).

A Copernican View of Health Care Antitrust, 65 Law & Contemp. Probs. 241 (Special Issue: Is the Health Care Revolution Over?, Clark C. Havighurst, ed.) (2002) (with William M. Sage).

Antitrust, Health Care Quality, and the Courts, 102 Colum. L. Rev. 545 (2002) (with William M. Sage).

How Doctors Became Distributors: A Fabled Story of Vertical Relations, (AALS Antitrust Law Section, Guilds at the Millennium: Antitrust and the Professions) 14 Loy. Consumer L. Rep. 411 (2002).

Antitrust Beyond Competition:  Market Failures, Total Welfare and the Challenge of Intra-Market Second Best Tradeoffs, 98 Mich. L. Rev. 849 (2000).

Questioning Traditional Antitrust Presumptions: Price and Non-Price Competition in Hospital Markets, (Symposium Issue, What’s the Prognosis: Managed Care in the Next Century), 32 Mich. J. L. Ref. 727 (1999).

Peer Reviewed (Refereed) Journals
Competition and Quality as Dynamic Processes in the Balkans of American Health Care, 31 J. Health Politics, Policy & Law 473 (Special Issue, Evaluation of DOJ/FTC Report Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition Peter D. Jacobson and David A. Hyman, eds.) (2006).

Critical Issues in Hospital Antitrust Law, 22(6) Health Affairs 88 (November/December 2003) (with William M. Sage).

The Pricing of Essential Aids Drugs: Markets, Politics and Public Health, 5(4) J. Int’l Econ. Law 883 (Special Issue: International Trade Law and Public Health, Gregg Bloche, ed..) (2002).

Arrow’s Analysis of Social Institutions: Entering the Marketplace with Giving Hands?  26(5) J. Health Politics, Policy & Law 1011 (Special Issue, Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care, Peter J. Hammer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, and William M. Sage, eds.) (2001).

Pegram v. Herdrich: On Peritonitis, Preemption and the Elusive Goal of Managed Care Accountability, 26(4) J. Health Politics, Policy & Law 767 (2001).

Books, Book Chapters and Monographs
Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care, (Peter J. Hammer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark Petersen and William M. Sage, eds.) (Duke University Press) (2003).

The Elusive Face of Cambodian Justice, in Awaiting Justice: Essays on Accountability in Cambodia (Beth Van Shaack, ed.) (Mellon Press) (2005).

Competition Law in Cambodia, in Competition Law and Policy in ASEAN Countries, (G.Sivalingam, ed.) (Consumer International) (2004)

Medical Antitrust Reform: Arrow, Coase and the Changing Structure of the Firm, in The Privatization of Health Care Reform, at 113 (Gregg Bloche, ed.) (Oxford University Press) (2002).

Assisted Suicide and the Challenge of Individually Determined Collective Rationality, in Law at the End of Life: The Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide, (Carl Schneider, ed.) (University of Michigan Press) (2000).

Presentations, Testimony & Workshops

Local Practice and Trans-National Dynamics in Mainland Southeast Asian Religions: Historical and Contemporary Patterns
Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia, February 2007
            Presentation: Buddhism and Development: The GTZ Wat-Based, Self-Help Initiative

American Society of Law Medicine & Ethics, Health Law Teacher’s Conference
University of Maryland Law School, Baltimore, MD June 2006
Paper: Competition and Quality as Dynamic Processes in the Balkans of American Health Care

Manufacturers' Immunity: The FDA Compliance Defense
Ave Maria Law School, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2006
Commentary on Daniel E. Troy’s “State-Level Protections for Good-Faith Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.”

Center for Law, Ethics & Health
University of Michigan School of Public Health, December 2005
            presentation:  Antitrust & Health Care Quality: Building a Competition Policy
          

Medicaid, Medicines and Malpractice: Issues in State Health Care Policy
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Columbus Ohio, April 2004
            Paper:  Beyond Malpractice: Cultivating Health Care Quality in the Twenty-First Century

Biotechnology and Social Justice Workshop
Santa Clara University Law School, Santa Clara, CA, September 2003
            Paper: The Pricing of Essential Aids Drugs: Markets, Politics and Public Health

The Policy Project Cambodia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 2003
            Workshop Participant: Cambodian HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Audit

American Society of Law Medicine & Ethics, Health Law Teacher’s Conference
Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, DE, June 2003
            Paper:  Monopsony as an Agency and Regulatory Problem in Health Care

Invitational Meeting, Provider Competition and Quality: Latest Findings and Implications for Next Generation of Research
Agency for Health Care Research & Quality (AHRQ) and Federal Trade Commission,
Washington, DC, May 2003
            Discussant: Physician Competition and Quality

DOJ/FTC Joint Hearings on Health Care Competition Law and Policy
Washington D.C., February 2003
            Presentation: Competition Policy: Building (Successfully) on Market Failure

DOJ/FTC Health Care and Competition Law and Policy Workshop
Washington D.C., September 2002
            Presentation: An Empirical Perspective on Health Care Competition Policy

Seton Hall Faculty Colloquium
Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ, September 2002
            Paper: The Pricing of Essential Aids Drugs: Markets, Politics and Public Health

Annual Meetings of the Academy for Health Services Research & Health Policy (AHSRHP)
Washington, D.C., June 2002
Panelist:  Beyond the Patient’s Bill of Rights: The Law & Politics of Managed Care

American Society of Law Medicine & Ethics, Health Law Teacher’s Conference
Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis Indiana, June 2002
Presentation:  The Private Side of Patient Protection: Integrating Market and Nonmarket
             Responses

AALS Antitrust Law Section, Guilds at the Millennium: Antitrust and the Professions
New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2002
            Paper: The Quiet Revolution: How Doctors Became Distributors

Is the Health Care Revolution Over?
Symposium for Special Issue of Law & Contemporary Problems
Duke University Law School, Durham, North Carolina, November 2001
            Paper: A Copernican View of Health Care Antitrust

Vanderbilt Legal Theory Workshop
Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, October 2001
            Paper: Antitrust, Health Care Quality, and the Courts

Annual Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards Program in Health Policy Research
Peach Tree Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2001
            Plenary Session on Completed Work
            Presentation: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care           

American Society of Law Medicine & Ethics, Health Law Teacher’s Conference
Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2001
            Paper: Antitrust, Health Care Quality, and the Courts

Net Impact Faculty Case Competition
University of Michigan School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 2000
Panelist:  The Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in Providing Affordable Aids Medications to those in Need in Africa

American Society of Law Medicine & Ethics, Health Law Teacher’s Conference
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, June 2000
Presentation: Developing a Competition Policy: Judicial Treatment of Non-Price Competition in Antitrust Cases

Annual Meetings of the American Law & Economics Association
Yale University Law School, New Haven Connecticut, May 1999
Paper: Testing the Limits of Antitrust: Intra-Market Second Best Tradeoffs

 

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Last Updated: August 28, 2007