Jessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond, where she teaches Leadership Ethics, Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare, and Critical Thinking. Her research addresses the ethics of public policy, medicine, and business. In "Pharmaceutical Freedom" (Oxford University Press, 2017) she defends rights of self-medication. In "Debating Sex Work" (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) she defends the decriminalization of sex work.
Flanigan has also published in journals such as Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, and the Journal of Political Philosophy. She is currently writing a book about the ethics of pregnancy and a book about language and ethics. She is a proponent of effective altruism.
Flanigan, Jessica and Watson, Lori, Debating Sex Work (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Flanigan, Jessica, Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self-Medicate (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Flanigan, Jessica. "The Ethics of Prenatal Injury." Journal of Moral Philosophy (October 2020): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-BJA10059.
Flanigan, Jessica. "The Rawlsian Mirror of Justice." Philosophy and Public Issues 10, no. 1 (2020): 69-99.
Flanigan, Jessica and Freiman, Christopher. "Drug War Reparations." Res Philosophica 97.2 (2020), 141-168. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.1886
Flanigan, Jessica. "Boundary Problems and Self-Ownership," Social Philosophy and Policy 36.2 (2019), 9-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052519000451
Flanigan, Jessica. “Sweatshop Regulations and Workers' Choices,” Journal of Business Ethics 153.1 (2018), 79-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3395-0
Flannigan, Jessica, "Duty and Enforcement," Journal of Political Philosophy 27.3 (2018), 341-362. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12173
Flanigan, Jessica, "All Liberty Is Basic," Res Publica 24.4 (2018), 455-474. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-017-9368-z
Flanigan, Jessica, "Philosophical Methodology and Leadership Ethics," Leadership 14.6 (2018), 707-730. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715017711823
Flanigan, Jessica, “Rethinking Freedom of Contract,” Philosophical Studies 174.2 (2017), 443-463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-016-0691-6
Flanigan, Jessica, “Seat Belt Mandates and Paternalism,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 14.3 (2017), 291-314. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-46810050
Flanigan, Jessica, “Obstetric Autonomy and Informed Consent,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19.1 (2016), 225-244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9610-8
Flanigan, Jessica, “Non-Culpable Ignorance and HIV Criminalization,” The Journal of Medical Ethics, 40.12 (2014), 798-801. Editor's Choice. DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2012-101119
Flanigan, Jessica, “Economic Freedom and the ACA,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 27.3 (2013), 215-241.
Flanigan, Jessica, “Public Bioethics,” Public Health Ethics, 6.2 (2013), 170-184. https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/pht022
Flanigan, Jessica, "Charisma and Moral Reasoning,” Religions, 4.2 (2013), 216-229. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel4020216
Bioethicist on libertarian views toward face mask laws (NPR)
Sun., Jul. 19, 2020
COVID-19 and the right to test (Cato Institute)
Mon., Jun. 8, 2020
Pourquoi soutenir un revenu de base? Interview de Jessica Flanigan (Liber-The)
Sun., May. 17, 2020
Lawmakers call for federal right to try expansion (Heartland)
Mon., Mar. 9, 2020
The patient's right (Libertarianism)
Tue., Dec. 17, 2019
Beyond the fight for $15 (Medium)
Wed., Jul. 24, 2019
Bioethicist on Libertarian views toward face mask laws (NPR)
Sun., Jul. 19, 2020
The case against voting for charisma (The Conversation)
Thu., May. 30, 2019
Beware of Beto's charisma: It's hard to resist in a politician, but it's not necessarily a healthy quality in a leader in a democracy (Bloomberg Opinion)
Fri., Mar. 15, 2019
Our view: EpiPens need to be easier to obtain (Winston-Salem Journal)
Wed., Aug. 31, 2016
Whose Autonomy? Risk & The Politics Of Vaccination (The Critique)
Thu., Sep. 10, 2015
Va. physicians paid millions by pharmaceutical companies (WRIC)
Tue., Oct. 1, 2013
