Nancy Zisk
Professor of Law
Articles
The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education: Achieving Student Body Diversity in All Levels of Education, 38 Touro Law Review 1371 (2023). Available at: https://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol38/iss4/14.
The Road Map to Attaining Diversity in the Workplace: How Race-Conscious Admissions Programs in Education Can Lead the Way, 59 San Diego Law Review 325 (2022). Available at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3437&context=sdlr.
Responsibility for Structural Racism in Medicine: Reflections and Recommendations from One Institution, 11 Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research 221 (2021). Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/nib.2021.0073.
Why a Consideration of Race Is Important to Medical School Admissions, 49 J. L. Med. & Ethics 181 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2021.28.
The Future of Race-Conscious Admissions Programs and Why the Law Should Continue to Protect Them, 12 N.E. U. L.R. 56 (2020). [Hein].
Embracing Race-Conscious College Admissions Programs: How Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin Redefines “Affirmative Action” as a Holistic Approach to Admissions that Ensures Equal, Not Preferential, Treatment, 100 Marquette L. Rev. 835 (2017).
A Physician's Apology: An Argument Against Statutory Protection, 18 Rich. J. L. & Pub. Int. 369 (2015). https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1332&context=pilr.
Following the 'Pathmarkers' From Bakke to Fisher to Understand How Race-Conscious Admissions Programs May Withstand Constitutional Scrutiny, 30 Harv. J.Racial & Ethnic Just. 1(2014). [Hein].
Investing in Health Care: What Happens When Physicians Invest and Why the Recent Changes in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Fail to Protect Patients from Their Physicians' Self Interest, 36 Seattle U. L. Review 189 (2012), https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2114&context=sulr
What Is Old Is New Again: Understanding Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., And The Case Law That Has Saved Age Discrimination, 58 Loy. L. Rev. 795 (2012). https://www.thefreelibrary.com/What+is+old+is+new+again%3A+understanding+Gross+v.+FBL+Financial...-a0349112457.
Failing the Test: How Ricci v. Destafano Failed to Clarify Disparate Impact and Disparate Treatment Law, 34 Hamline L. Rev. 27 (2010-2011). [Hein].
Lilly Ledbetter, Take Two: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 and the Discovery Rule’s Place in the Pay Discrimination Puzzle, 16 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 1 (2009), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol16/iss1/2
In the Wake of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company: Applying the Discovery Rule to Determine the Start of the Limitations Period for Pay Discrimination Claims, 16 Duke J. of Gender Law and Pol'y 137 (Fall 2008), https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1158&context=djglp
The Limitations of Legislatively Imposed Damages Caps: Proposing a Better Way to Control the Costs of Medical Malpractice, 30 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 119 (2006), https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1884&context=sulr
Book Chapters
Lilly Ledbetter, Take Two: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 and the Discovery Rule’s Place in the Pay Discrimination Puzzle, reprinted in Women and the Law, Jane Campbell Moriarty, ed., West Publishing (2010).
Conferences & Presentations
Mar. 2024: Presenter. Pharmacists, Medication Safety and the Law. MUSC Department of Pharmacy. Medical University of South Carolina.
Mar. 2024: Presenter. Recent Developments in IVF: A Review of the Alabama Supreme Court and the SC Legislative Response. Bioethics Committee, South Carolina Medical Association.
Jan. 2023. Presenter. Health Equity Post-COVID - Goals and Obstacles: How Access to Medical School Education Can Increase Health Equity. AALS 2023 Annual Meeting, Academic Conference.
Feb. 2023. Presenter. Medication Safety and Professional Malpractice. MUSC, Medication Safety, Humanity, and Law, Second-year Pharmacy Student Seminar.
Mar. 2023. Presenter. Informed Consent, Substituted Consent, the Right for a Patient to Withhold Consent or Refuse Treatment, and the Consequences When a Health Care Provider Ignores a Patient's Instructions. College of Charleston, Bioethics: Philosophy 170, Campus Workshop.
Apr. 2023. Moderator, Panel Discussion. Time to Abandon the Dead Donor Rule. The Ethics of Organ Transplantation; 29th Annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship in Medical Ethics. Medical University of South Carolina.
May 2023. Presenter. The Law's Role in the Abortion Debate. South Carolina Medical Association.
June 2023. Presenter. Informed Consent and Confidentiality. MUSC Second Year Medical Student Seminar.
Sep. 2023. Presenter. The Legacy of Race at MUSC. MUSC Neurology Grans Rounds.
Sept. 2023. Neurology Grand Rounds, MUSC. The history of race relations at MUSC and how it is relevant to today's issues.
Dec. 2023. MUSC and Race: Past, Present, and Future. Faculty Development Series, MUSC College of Pharmacy. Discussion of the role race played in MUSC's treatment of patients, employees, and students since it was founded in 1824, its commitment to diversity and inclusion today, and how the recent Supreme Court decisions may affect The College of Pharmacy's policies and procedures in the future.
Editorials & Commentary
"What made it possible for the Holocaust to happen?" Post & Courier Iss. The Holocaust-75 years since liberation (2020) p. 3. https://www.postandcourier.com/special/holocaust/page-s003/page_a8daa135-a346-559a-91e5-da96d4505e93.html.
Other
Brief of the National Conference of State Legislatures, National League of Cities, Council of State Governments, U.S. Conference of Mayors, International City Management Association, and National Association of Counties as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, California Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra, 474 U.S. 1049, 106 S. Ct. 783, 88 L. Ed. 2d 762 (1986).
