Regulating the Organ Market: Normative Foundations for Market Regulation

In this article, the first of two I have contributed to this issue of Law and Contemporary Problems, I do two quite different things. First, in part II, I attempt to map normative arguments against the sale of organs onto regulatory proposals for “organ markets.” Those who oppose organ sale may do so for a number of different normative reasons, independently or in conjunction, and my goal is to show whether someone who opposes the sale of organs for X normative reasons can nonetheless support some forms of a regulated organ market. My goal might also be put in more positive terms: to show those who are unsure about whether organ markets are a good idea what forms of