Richard J. Bonnie
University of Virginia · Law
Active 1970–2025
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About
Richard J. Bonnie is a faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Law with affiliations to the Program in Public Policy and Regulation, the Center for Criminal Justice, the Health Law Program, and the Family Law Center. His expertise includes mental health law and policy, as evidenced by his co-authorship of the publication 'Don’t Arm People in a Mental Health Crisis,' which discusses firearm restrictions for individuals with serious mental illness. His work focuses on legal and policy issues surrounding mental health, public safety, and civil rights, contributing to debates on firearm background checks and mental health legislation. Bonnie's scholarship emphasizes the importance of legal frameworks in addressing complex social issues related to mental health and public safety.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Nursing
- Medicine
- Psychology
Selected publications
It's Time to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act
Annals of Internal Medicine · 2019-12-23 · 59 citations
articleIdeas and Opinions21 January 2020It's Time to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death ActAriane Lewis, MD, Richard J. Bonnie, LLB, and Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhDAriane Lewis, MDNYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York (A.L.), Richard J. Bonnie, LLBUniversity of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Charlottesville, Virginia (R.J.B.), and Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhDMitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minn…
Fulfilling the Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth
Journal of Adolescent Health · 2019-08-19 · 53 citations
articleOpen access1st authorEthical Considerations in Dementia Diagnosis and Care
Neurology · 2021 · 41 citations
Alzheimer disease and other dementias present unique practical challenges for patients, their families, clinicians, and health systems. These challenges reflect not only the growing public health effect of dementia in an aging global population, but also more specific ethical complexities including early loss of patients' capacity to make decisions regarding their own care, the stigma often associated with a dementia diagnosis, the difficulty of balancing concern for patients' welfare with respe…
Neurology · 2020-05-16 · 17 citations
articleOpen accessPatients, clinicians, and hospitals have undergone monumental changes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This crisis has forced us to consider the obligations that we neurologists have to our individual patients as well as the greater community. By returning to our fundamental understanding of these duties, we can ensure that we are providing the most ethically appropriate contingency and crisis care possible. We recommend specific adaptations to both the inpatient and outp…
It's Time to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act
Annals of Internal Medicine · 2020-07-06 · 10 citations
letterLetters7 July 2020It's Time to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death ActAriane Lewis, MD, Richard J. Bonnie, LLB, and Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhDAriane Lewis, MDNYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York (A.L.), Richard J. Bonnie, LLBUniversity of Virginia Schools of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia (R.J.B.), and Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhDMitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota (T.P.)Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/L20-0257 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF…
Frequent coauthors
- 305 shared
Matthew P. Kirschen
- 268 shared
Leon G. Epstein
Lurie Children's Hospital
- 246 shared
Michael Rubin
VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System
- 182 shared
Winston Chiong
University Memory and Aging Center
- 133 shared
Ariane Lewis
New York University
- 126 shared
Salvador Cruz‐Flores
Texas Tech University
- 126 shared
Katharina M. Busl
Florida College
- 121 shared
Daniel G. Larriviere
Seattle University
Awards & honors
- Isaac Ray Award (1998) for contributions to forensic psychia…
- Thomas Jefferson Award (2007) from the University of Virgini…
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