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Scott Burris, JD
blue arrow Professor of Law, Temple University
blue arrow Consultant, Law, Policy and Ethics Core

Contact:
blue arrow scott.burris@temple.edu
blue arrow Ph: (215) 204-6576


Brief Bio:
Scott Burris has been a member of the faculty at Temple University Beasley School of Law since 1991. Formerly an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, he has also served as law clerk to Judge (now Chief Judge) Dolores Sloviter of the Third Circuit United States Court of Appeals. He is a graduate of the Yale Law School. He received his B.A. from Washington University.

He has written extensively in the areas of HIV and public health law. He is the editor of AIDS Law Today: A New Guide for the Public (1993), and the author or co-author of articles including The Law and the Public's Health: A Study of Infectious Disease Law in the United States,99 Columbia L. Rev. 59(1999), Dental Discrimination Against the HIV-Infected: Empirical Data, Law and Pub lic Policy, 13 Yale J. Reg. 1 (1996) and Legal Strategies for Syringe Exchange in the United States, 86 Am. J. Pub. Health 1161 (1996).His work has been supported by grants from foundations including The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lindesmith Center.



Selected Publications:
In Press

Burris, S., Anderson, E., Beletsky, L., and Davis, C.  (In Press). Policy Innovation in the Time of New Federalism: Legal Framework for Safe Injection Facilities in the United States. St, Louis University Law Review, (), .

Burris, S., Beletsky, L., Castagna, C., Coyle, C., Crowe, C., and McLaughlin, JM.  (In Press). Stopping an Invisible Epidemic: Legal Issues in the Provision of Naloxone to Prevent Opioid Overdose. Drexel University Law Review, (), .

2008

Beletsky, L., Davis, C., Anderson, E., and Burris, S.  (2008). The Law (and Politics) of Safe Injection Facilities in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 98(2), 231-7.

2005

Beletsky, L., Macalino, G.E., and Burris, S.  (2005). Attitudes of Police Officers towards Syringe Access, Occupational Needle-Sticks, and Drug Use: A Qualitative Study of One City Police Department in the United States. International Journal of Drug Policy, 16(4), 267-274.

Davis, C.S., Burris, S., Kraut-Becher, J., Lynch, K.G., and Metzger, D.  (2005). Effects of an Intensive Street-Level Police Intervention on Syringe Exchange Program Use in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. American Journal of Public Health, 95(2), 233-236.

Burris, S., Drahos, P., and Shearing, C.  (2005). Nodal Governance. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 30(), 30-58.

2004

Burris, S., Blankenship, K.M., Donoghoe, M., Sherman, S., Vernick, J.S., Case, P., Lazzarini, Z. and Koester, S.  (2004). Addressing the "Risk Environment" for Injection Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop. Milbank Quarterly, 82(1), 125-56.

2002

Heimer, R., Bray, S., Burris, S., Khoshnood, K. and Blankenship, K.M.  (2002). Structural Interventions to Improve Opiate Maintenance. International Journal of Drug Policy, 13(2), 103-111.

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