Events by Academic Year: 2017-2018
Addiction, Neuroscience, and the Criminal Law: Commonwealth vs. Julie Eldred
Description Is addiction a disease? And does it matter for the criminal law? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court now faces these questions in the potentially landmark case, Commonwealth vs. Julie…
The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the panelists' slide presentations below! Description In the past several years, the United States has struggled to respond to viral outbreaks,…
Digital Health @ Harvard Series: Health Care Costs and Transparency
Description Health spending continues outpace wages and GDP, while some new insurance designs transfer greater shares of that to patients’ own out of pocket costs. In this talk, Dr.…
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the video of the event here! Please join us for a talk with Trevor Hoppe on his book, Punishing Disease: HIV…
Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States: Pre-Workshop Webcast and Workshop
Video of the full event will be posted here soon! Want updates sent to your inbox? Sign up for our newsletter! Couldn't join us in person for the January 26…
Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #healthlawpreview2018 and some of our speakers' slide presentations below! Description The Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review…
Revolutionizing the Delivery of Health Care: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Description The United States spends more on health care than any other country, but high spending often does not translate into improved outcomes, particularly in comparison to health systems in…
Health Law Workshop: Rachel E. Sachs
Presentation Topic: "Delinking Reimbursement" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Minnich at jminnich@law.harvard…
Behind Bars: Ethics and Human Rights in U.S. Prisons
The United States leads the world in incarceration. The “War on Drugs” and prioritizing punishment over rehabilitation has led to mass imprisonment, mainly of the nation’s…
Gender Equity in Academic Medicine: Issues and Solutions: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Panelists Claudia Goldin, PhD, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University Karen Freund, MD, MPH, Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Quality Improvement and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School…
Health Law Workshop: Vardit Ravitsky
Presentation Topic: "The Shifting Landscape of Prenatal Testing: Between Reproductive Autonomy and Public Health" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for…
Health Law Workshop: Thaddeus Mason Pope
Presentation Download the Presentation: "From Informed Consent to Shared Decision Making: How Patient Decision Aids Can Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medical Liability Risk" Background Reading: "Certified…
Dementia and Democracy: America's Aging Judges and Politicians
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists' slide presentations below! Description Our judiciary and our elected officials are getting old. Five of the nine…
Health Law Workshop: Allison K. Hoffman
Presentation Presentation: "Health Care’s Market Bureaucracy" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Minnich…
Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications
In September 2017, MIT Press will publish Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications, co-edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch (outgoing Petrie-Flom Executive Director), Barbara Bierer, I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and Suzanne…
Health Law Workshop: David M. Studdert
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Once Ticketed, Twice Shy? Specific Deterrence from Road Traffic Laws" About the Presenter David M. Studdert is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Law…
Health Law Workshop: Aziza Ahmed
Presentation Topic: "'Dead But Not Disabled': A Feminist Legal Struggle for Recognition" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop,…
HLS in the World: New Technologies, New Dilemmas: Part of the HLS200 Bicentennial Celebration
This event was part of the HLS in the World sessions of HLS │200, a bicentennial summit of academic sessions and programs devoted to legal issues of pressing importance. Panel Description…
Health Law Workshop: Belinda Bennett
Presentation Presentation: "Law, Transformative Technologies and the Automation Age: Lessons from the Past for a High-Tech Future" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy…
Research with Biospecimens: Balancing Individual Interests and Social Goods
This panel at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities examined issues addressed at Petrie-Flom's 2015 conference "Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications," and…