Research

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Justin Bernstein, Athmeya Jayaram, and Brian Hutler. (Forthcoming) “Assessing the Liberty-Based Case Against Pandemic Lockdowns,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.

Justin Bernstein and Mark Navin. (2023). “Reciprocity, Vulnerability, and the Moral Significance of Herd Immunity,” Journal of Applied Philosophy.

Rachel Gur-Arie, Brian Hutler, and Justin Bernstein. (2023). “The Ethics of Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination of Healthcare Workers: Public Health and Clinical Perspectives,” Bioethics, 1-12.

Pierce Randall and Justin Bernstein. (2021). “Reciprocity and the Ethics of Giving During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Journal of Social Philosophy 52 (4): 516-535.

Justin Bernstein. (2021). “Anti-Vaxxers, Anti-Anti-Vaxxers, Fairness, and Anger,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 31(1): 17-52, (Featured Article.)

Rupali Limaye, Molly Sauer, Joseph Ali, Justin Bernstein, Brian Wahl, Alain Labrique, and Anne Barnhilll. (2020). “Building Trust While Influencing Online COVID-19 Content in a Socially Mediated World,” The Lancet Digital Health. 2020 Jun; 2 (6): e277-278.

Justin Bernstein, Taylor Holroyd, Jessica Atwell, Joe Ali, and Rupali Limaye. (2019). “Rockland County’s Proposed Ban Against Unvaccinated Minors: Balancing Disease Control, Trust, and Liberty,” Vaccine, 37 Iss. 30 (2019): 3393-3395. 

Justin Bernstein. (2017). “The Case Against Libertarian Arguments for Compulsory Vaccination,” Journal of Medical Ethics, 43 No. 11 (2017): pp. 1-5.

A paper on citizen juries and pandemic policymaking (In progress)

A paper on vaccine mandates and political legitimacy (In progress)

FOOD ETHICS

Justin Bernstein. (2023). “You Can’t Have Your Steak and Call for Political Action on Climate Change, Too,” Journal of Value Inquiry.

Daniel Mason D’Croz, Anne Barnhill, Justin Bernstein, Jessica Rose Bogard, Gabriel Dennis, et al. (2022). “Ethical and Economic Implications of the Adoption of Novel Plant-Based Beef Substitutes in the USA: A General Equilibrium Modeling Study,” The Lancet Planetary Health 6 (8): 658-669.

Anne Barnhill, Justin Bernstein, Ruth Faden, Jessica Fanzo, Rebecca McClaren, and Travis Rieder. (2022). “Moral Reasons for Individuals in High-Income Countries to Limit Beef Consumption,” Food Ethics 7 (11): 1-27.

Justin Bernstein and Jan Dutkiewicz. (2021). “A Public Health Ethics Case for Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Risk in Food Production,” Food Ethics 6 (2): 1-25.

A paper on moral discretion in dietary choice (Received a revise and resubmit)

PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS

Justin Bernstein and Pierce Randall. (2020). “Against the Public Goods Conception of Public Health,” Public Health Ethics 13 (3): 225-237. 

Ruth Faden, Justin Bernstein, and Sirine Shebaya (2020) “Public Health Ethics,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. (Fall 2020 Edition)

A paper on Kantian approaches to coercion and public health ethics (Revised and resubmitted)

OTHER SCHOLARLY WORK

Mehrdad Meadi, Justin Bernstein, Neeltje Batelaan, and Suzanne Metselaar. (2024) “Does a            Lack of Emotions Make Chatbots Unfit to be Psychotherapists?” Bioethics 38 (6): 503- 510.

Charlotte Garstman, Sterre de Jong, and Justin Bernstein. (2023). “Does identity-relative paternalism prohibit (future) self-sacrifice? A reply to Wilkinson.” Journal of Medical Ethics 49: 406-408.

Travis N. Rieder and Justin Bernstein. (2020). “The Case for ‘Contributory Ethics’: Or How to Think about Individual Morality in a Time of Global Problems,” Ethics, Policy, and Environment.

C.M. Melenovksy and Justin Bernstein. (2015). “Why Free Market Rights are Not Basic Liberties,” The Journal of Value Inquiry 49 Iss. 1-2: pp. 47-67.

A paper on anarchism and the right to rule (Under review)

A paper on instrumentalism and political legitimacy (In progress)

A paper on confidentiality in legal ethics (In progress)

BOOK REVIEWS

Justin Bernstein and Anne Barnhill (2022) “Political Philosophy During a Pandemic, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 25: 385-387.

Justin Bernstein and Pierce Randall (2021) “Gregory Pence’s Pandemic Bioethics,” Bioethics, Published online 20 December, 2021.

Justin Bernstein and Anne Barnhill (2021) “Bob Fischer’s The Ethics of Eating Animals,” Ethics 131 (3)

PUBLIC FACING WORK

Justin Bernstein and Mark Navin, “Governments Should Not Fine Citizens for Vaccine Refusal,” Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Public Ethics Blog, January 27, 2022.

Justin Bernstein, Anne Barnhill, and Travis Rieder, “How Should Governments Make COVID-19 Policy?” Philosopher’s Magazine, December 25, 2021.

Travis N. Rieder, Anne Barnhill, Justin Bernstein, and Brian Hutler, “When to Reopen the Nation is an Ethics Question—Not Only a Scientific One,” Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, April 28, 2020. 

Ezekiel Emanuel and Justin Bernstein, “All Children Should Have to Get a Flu Shot,” The New York Times, March 1, 2018.

GRANTS/WORKING GROUP

SOCION, recipient of NWO Summit Grant, “Social Cohesion: Towards a New Fabric of Society” (2024-2034)
—Researcher (https://socion-program.org)

“Enabling Ethical Analysis and Public Justification in State-Level Pandemic Responses in the United States,” recipient of National Science Foundation, “Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact (SoS: DCI) Grant” (2021-); Greenwall Foundation, “Making a Difference Grant,” (2021-)
—Leader, “Normative Analysis Unit”