Recent Publications
Books
The Limits of Liberty, Oxford University Press, 2025
One Child: Do We Have a Right to More? Oxford University Press, 2016
Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, Cambridge University Press, 2013
Articles
"Well-Being," Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory, Richard Bellamy and Jeff King, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2025
"Utilitarianism and Reproductive Rights," Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism, Guillaume Tusseau, Ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
"Paternalism and Autonomy: Pushing the Limits," Routledge Handbook of Autonomy, Ben Colburn, ed., Routledge, 2023
"Campus Speech Should Not Be Free," Journal of Free Speech Law, vol. 2, #1, pp. 299-322, 2022
"Overpopulation and Individual Responsibility," in Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics, Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, et al., eds., Oxford University Press, 2022
"The Challenge of Population," Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics, Stephen Gardiner, ed., Oxford University Press, 2021
"Paternalism," Encyclopedia of Law and Social Philosophy, Mortimer Sellars and Steven Kirste, Springer, 2020
"Procreation Ethics," International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Hugh Follette, ed., John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2019
"Moral Paternalism," Review of Behavioral Economics, vol. 5, pp. 291-302, 2018
"When Free Speech is False Speech," in The Value and Limits of Academic Speech, Chris Surprenant and Don Downs, eds, Routledge, pp. 299-310, 2018
"Consequentialism, Paternalism and the Value of Liberty" in the Handbook to Paternalism, Jason Hanna and Kalle Grill, eds., Routledge, 2018
"La liberté de choix: est-elle importante?" Nudges et Normativités, Editions Hermann, (Paris) 2018 (translation of "When Freedom of Choice Doesn’t Matter," below)
"Paternalism, Food, and Personal Freedom," in Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, Anne Barnhill, Tyler Doggett, and Mark Budolfson, eds., Oxford University Press, 2018
"Paternalism and the Limits of Liberty," in the Handbook of Libertarianism, Jason Brennan, David Schmidtz, and Bas van der Vossen, eds., Routledge, 2017
"Paternalism, Coercion, and the Unimportance of (some) Liberties," Behavioral Public Policy, vol. 1 #2, pp. 207-218, 2017
"The Right to Have Children," The Philosophers’ Magazine, November, 2016, pp. 78-82
" A Puzzle for Paternalism: Personal Values," Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 14, 2016, pp. 735-745
"When Freedom of Choice Doesn’t Matter," La Revue Toqueville/Toqueville Review, vol. 37, #1, 2016, pp. 39-58
"The Right to Preventive Health Care," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 37, #4, August 4, 2016, pp. 307-321
"Do We Have the Right to More Than One Child?" Population and Sustainability, vol. 1, #1, , July 26, 2016
"Withdrawing, Withholding and Freedom" American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 16, #7, June 16, 2016
"The Case for Banning Cigarettes," Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 42, # 5, 2016
"Here’s Why China’s One-Child Policy was a Good Thing," Op-Ed, Boston Globe, Oct. 31, 2015
"Three Cheers for the Nanny State," Op-ed, New York Times, March 25, 2013
"Coercive Paternalism in Health Care: Against Freedom of Choice," Public Health Ethics, vol. 6 #3 (published on line Sept. 2013)
"Against Autonomy: Author Meets Critics: Precis," Journal of Medical Ethics, on line edition, Dec. 12, 2013
"Against Autonomy: Author Meets Critics: Response," Journal of Medical Ethics, on line edition, Feb. 14, 2014
"Contre l’Autonomie, French translation of Against Autonomy," Presses de l’Université Laval, tr. Gérald Baril, 2015
