On Wednesday, March 26, at 4:30pm, the Buckley Institute is pleased to welcome Boston University School of Law and School of Public Health Associate Professor Michael Ulrich and Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson for a Firing Line debate on the resolved, "Should the Law Only Recognize Biological Sex?"
The Trump administration recently passed an executive order recognizing binary biological sex, rescinding efforts by the Biden administration to define and protect broader categories like gender identity. How should government classify sexual identity, and what are the various consequences of defining it in certain ways?
This event is free and open to the public.
Michael R. Ulrich is an Associate Professor of Health Law, Ethics, & Human Rights at Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Law. His research focuses on the intersection of public health, constitutional law, bioethics, and social justice, with an emphasis on the role of law in the health outcomes of marginalized and underserved populations. Professor Ulrich’s scholarship has appeared in national and international journals, including the Stanford Law Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Hastings Law Journal, British Medical Journal, Cardozo Law Review, American Journal of Bioethics, SMU Law Review, Health Affairs, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, American Journal of Law & Medicine, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, & Ethics. He also served as guest editor for an issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics on the Second Amendment and gun violence, and coauthored the leading casebook Public Health Law. Professor Ulrich’s research has received numerous awards and recognition, having been selected as a Public Law Junior Scholar by the American Constitution Society and a Health Law Scholar by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and presented with the Translational Science Award by the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms. He has also been given multiple “Excellence in Teaching” awards for his work in the classroom.
Professor Ulrich has coauthored or been cited in amicus briefs at every level of the judiciary, including the United States Supreme Court, on the Second Amendment, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive justice, and contagious disease control. As an interdisciplinary scholar seeking to reach a wide range of audiences, Professor Ulrich has shared his expertise on television programs for ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and NBC News; he has been a guest on NPR and several podcasts; and he has written for or been quoted or cited in publications such as the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, USA Today, NPR, Bloomberg Law, The Hill, and Slate. Professor Ulrich has appointments and affiliations with the Boston University Center for Health Law, Ethics, & Human Rights, the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, and the Yale Law School Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy, while also serving as the Director for the Human Rights and Social Justice Certificate and as a member of the Boston University School of Law’s Health Law Program Committee.
Prior to joining Boston University, Professor Ulrich was a Research Scholar, Senior Fellow in Health Law, & Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where he helped launch and run the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy at Yale Law School with Faculty Director Abbe Gluck. He has also worked as a bioethicist in the Division of AIDS at the National Institutes of Health.
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Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
He is the author or co-author of five books, including the just-released
Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing. Previous books include
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,
Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom,
What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, and
Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination. He is the co-editor of
A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from “The Review of Politics.”
Anderson’s research has been cited by two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, in two Supreme Court cases.
He received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, graduating
Phi Beta Kappa and
magna cum laude, and he received his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was titled: “Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights.”
Anderson has made appearances on ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News. His work has been published by the
New York Times, the
Washington Post, the
Wall Street Journal, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the
Harvard Health Policy Review, the
Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy,
First Things, the
Claremont Review of Books, and
National Review.
He is the John Paul II Teaching Fellow in Social Thought at the University of Dallas, a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University, and a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, as well as the Founding Editor of
Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey.
For 9 years he was the
William E. Simon senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and has served as an adjunct professor of philosophy and political science at Christendom College, and a Visiting Fellow at the Veritas Center at Franciscan University. He has also served as an assistant editor of
First Things.
