Faculty
S. Elizabeth (Betsy) Malloy

Contact Information

Education

  • BA, College of William and Mary
  • JD, Duke University

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Areas of Interest

  • Health Law
  • Mental Health Law
  • Disability Law
  • Torts

S. Elizabeth (Betsy) Malloy
Andrew Katsanis Professor of Law

Professor Malloy teaches in the area of health law. She joined the faculty in 1996 after practicing law as a litigation associate with Covington and Burling in Washington, DC. She graduated from Duke University School of Law where she served as Notes Editor of the Duke Law Journal and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. She then clerked for the Honorable Eugene A. Wright of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Professor Malloy conducts research in disability law, health law, and law and psychiatry. She has been published in the Boston College Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, the Georgia Law Review as well as several others. Professor Malloy has received the numerous awards for scholarship as well as the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2000).

Publications

Presentations

  • Dangerous Science: The Use of Evolutionary Psychology in the Law, Boston College Law School (Spring 2001)
  • The Learned Intermediary Doctrine in the Era of Pharmaceutical Television Advertising, 2001 National Rendigs Moot Court Competition, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Spring 2001)
  • Speaking Freely: Conflicts Between the Ethical Rules and An Attorney's First Amendment Rights, Lawyer's Club, Cincinnati, Ohio (Fall 2000)
  • Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Why Are Disability Law Claims Any Different?, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Summer 2000)
  • The Learned Intermediary Doctrine: A New Warning to Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, 2000 National Rendigs Moot Court Competition, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Spring 2000)
  • Conflicts of Interests and Institutional Review Board Regulations, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Winter 2000)
  • Taming Terrorists But Not ‘Natural Born Killers,' Northern Kentucky School of Law (Fall 1999)
  • The Attorney-Client Privilege: A Post-Mortem Analysis of Swidler & Berlin v. United States, Lawyer's Club, Cincinnati, Ohio (Fall 1999)
  • Recalibrating the Cost of Harm Advocacy Speech: Getting BeyondBrandenburg, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Summer 1999)
  • Warranty Liability and the Y2K Problem, 1999 National Rendigs Moot Court Competition, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Spring 1999)
  • Mentoring, and Authorship and Peer Review, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Winter 1999)
  • Law School Exam Skills, National Black Law Students Association, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Fall 1998)
  • Revisiting the Public/Private Distinction: Employee Monitoring in the Workplace, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Summer 1998)
  • Whose Federalism, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis (Spring 1998)
  • Deferring A Difficult Decision: Judicial Developments Concerning the Right to Die, Cincinnati Bar Association Health Law Section (Fall 1997)
  • Employment Issues Facing Health Care Workers in the Era of Managed Care, University of Cincinnati College of Nursing (Spring 1997)
  • Women in Law Firms, Mount Vernon College, Washington, D.C (Spring 1996)

 

Courses

  • Disability Law
  • Health Care Entities
  • Health Care Law
  • Torts

October 2009

Betsy’s article, Physician Restrictive Covenants: The Neglect of the Incompetent Patients' Interests, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 189 (2006), was cited in Steven W. Feldman, Contract Law and Practice (Thomson-West, 2009 Supp.).

Summer 2009

Two of Betsy’s articles were cited:

June 2009

Two of Betsy’s publications were cited:

April 2009

Betsy presented Solving the Truth Deficit on the Internet: Injunctions or Civil Damages? at Ohio State as part of the College’s Scholar Exchange Program.

Betsy was quoted in:

March 2009

Betsy presented Overvaluing Anonymous Speech: Problems in State Court Defamation Actions at Kansas as part of the UC-Kansas Scholar Exchange Program. (She hosted a workshop at the College last year by Melanie Wilson (Kansas), Prosecutors “Doing Justice” Through Osmosis: Reminders to Encourage a Culture of Cooperation.)

Two of Betsy’s articles were cited:

February 2009

Betsy’s article, Anonymous Blogging and Defamation: Balancing Interests of the Internet, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1187 (2007), was cited in Joseph Blocher, Reputation as Property in Virtual Economies, 118 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 120 (2009).

November 2008

Betsy's article, Recalibrating the Cost of Harm Advocacy Speech: Getting beyond Brandenburg, 42 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1165 (2000) (with Ronald J. Krotoszynski), was cited in Steven Penaro, Reconciling Morse with Brandenburg, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 251 (2008).

October 2008

Betsy acted as the discussant at a faculty workshop at the College by Nicole Huberfeld, Spending and Compulsory Motherhood as part of the College's Faculty Workshop Series.

Summer 2008

Betsy was named Andrew Katsanis Professor of Law.

Betsy presented Anonymous Blogging as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Betsy's article, Recalibrating the Cost of Harm Advocacy Speech: Getting Beyond Brandenburg, 42 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 1165 (2000) (with Ronald J. Krotoszynski), was cited in Ronald J. Krotoszynski, The Return of Seditious Libel, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 1239 (2008).

June 2008

Betsy's blog, Health Law Prof Blog, was named a Top-50 Law School Blog.

Betsy and Marjorie Aaron organized the UC Law Running Club and participated in the Flying Pig Marathon.

Two of Betsy's articles were cited:
  • Beyond Misguided Paternalism: Resuscitating the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, 33 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1035 (1998), in Strong's North Carolina Index (Thomson West, 4th ed. 2008 Supp.).
  • Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Why Are Disability Law Claims Any Different?, 33 Conn. L. Rev. 603 (2001), in Elizabeth F. Emens, Integrating Accommodation, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 839 (2008).

May 2008

Betsy's article, Beyond Misguided Paternalism: Resuscitating the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, 33 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1035 (1998), was cited in Roberta Achtenberg & Karen Moulding, Sexual Orientation and the Law (Clark Boardman Callaghan 2008 Supp.).

April 2008

Betsy posted Mental Health Courts and Title II of the ADA: Accessibility to State Court Systems for Individuals with Mental Disabilities and the Need for Diversion, 25 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 307 (2006), on SSRN.

Betsy's article, Recalibrating the Cost of Harm Advocacy Speech: Getting Beyond Brandenburg, 42 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1165 (2000) (with Ronald J. Krotoszynski), was cited in Ronald Turner, Cross Burnings and the Harm-valuation Analytic: A Tale of Two Cases, 9 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol'y 3 (2007).

March 2008

Betsy posted Anonymous Blogging and Defamation: Balancing Interests of the Internet, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1187 (2006), on SSRN. The article was featured on Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog and sparked considerable discussion in the law prof blogosphere:

February 2008

Betsy's article, Beyond Misguided Paternalism: Resuscitating the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, 33 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1035 (1998), was cited in Roberta Achtenberg & Karen Moulding, Sexual Orientation and the Law (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2008 Supp.).

December 2007

Betsy's article, Beyond Misguided Paternalism: Resuscitating the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, 33 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1035 (1998), was cited in Strong's North Carolina Index (Lawyers Cooperative, 4th ed., 2007 Supp.)

November 2007

Betsy and Doug Mossman organized the symposium, Revising the Frontiers of Responsibility and Blame: How Neuroscience Is Reshaping Philosophy and the Criminal Law, co-sponsored by the Glenn M. Weaver Institute, the UC Department of Philosophy, and the UC College of Medicine. Speakers included:
  • John Bickle, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy).
  • Valerie Hardcastle, Ph.D. (Dean, UC McMicken College of Arts and Sciences).
  • Douglas S. Lehrer, M.D. (Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine).
  • Stephen J. Morse, J.D., Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania School of Law).
  • Stephen M. Strakowski, M.D. (University of Cincinnati, Department of Psychiatry).
  • Glen Weissenberger, J.D. (Dean, DePaul University School of Law).

Betsy and the entire College community mourned Dr. Glenn Weaver, who died on October 25 at age 86.

Betsy served as Discussant for a faculty workshop by Melanie Wilson (Kansas) on Prosecutors “Doing Justice” Through Osmosis: Reminders to Encourage a Culture of Cooperation, as part of the College's Faculty Colloquia Series.

Betsy participated in the Alumni Teach-In Day, as Deborah Lydon (Class of 1981), Dinsmore & Shohl (Cincinnati, OH) and Tom Korbee (Class of 1977), taught her Torts Class.

Betsy's article, The Interaction of the ADA, the FMLA, and Workers' Compensation: Why Can't We Be Friends?, 41 Brandeis L.J. 821 (2003), was cited in Carol Wong, The Family and Medical Leave Act: To Waive, or Not to Waive, 2007 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1567.

October 2007

Betsy's article, The Interaction of the ADA, the FMLA, and Workers' Compensation: Why Can't We Be Friends?, 41 Brandeis L.J. 821 (2003), in Carol Wong, The Family and Medical Leave Act: To Waive, or Not to Waive, 2007 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1567.

Summer 2007

Betsy presented Roll Out the Lawsuits: Could Tort Lawyers Have a Barrel of Fun with the Genetics of Alcoholism? (with Douglas Mossman) as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Two of Betsy's articles were cited:

May 2007

Betsy published Mental Health Courts and Title II of the ADA: Accessibility to State Court Systems for Individuals with Mental Disabilities and the Need for Diversion, 25 St. Louis Univ. Pub. L. Rev. 307 (Fall 2006) (symposium). She hosted the Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry symposium, Law, Ethics, Psychiatry, and the Human Genome Project.

Betsy's article, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Why Are Disability Law Claims Any Different?, 33 Conn. L. Rev. 603 (2001), was cited in Naomi Schoenbaum, It's Time that You Know: The Shortcomings of Ignorance as Fairness in Employment Law and the Need for an "Information-shifting" Model, 30 Harv. J. L. & Gender 99 (2007).

March 2007

Betsy's article, Beyond Misguided Paternalism: Resuscitating the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, 33 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1035 (1998), was cited in Roberta Achtenberg & Karen Moulding, Sexual Orientation and the Law (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.).

January 2007

Betsy's article, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Why Are Disability Law Claims Any Different?, 33 Conn. L. Rev. 603 (2001), was cited in Cheryl L. Anderson, What Is "Because of the Disability" under the Americans with Disabilities Act? Reasonable Accommodation, Causation, and the Windfall Doctrine, 27 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 323 (2006).

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Awards

  • 2000 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching