News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Animals"
Majority of Respondents Support Chimeric Animal Research: Survey
Human-animal chimeric embryos—organisms created using cells from two or more species—have the potential to change how researchers study disease and generate organs and tissues for human…
The Science and Ethics of Chimera Research: Part of the Ethics Frontiers Seminar Series
Description Stem cell-based human/animal chimera research involves the transfer of human stem cells into animal hosts at various stages of development. The purpose of this research is to introduce…
Can Ethical Labeling Make Food Systems Healthy, Sustainable, and Just?: Lessons from a Critical Evaluation of the Democratic Governance Capacity of Animal Welfare Labeling
Description In this talk, Professor Christine Parker critically investigated the role of food labeling and its contestation as a governance pathway towards healthy, sustainable, and fair food systems. Consumers are…
Accelerating Alternatives to Animal Experimentation
This panel gave an overview of the current state of developing alternatives to animal use in science and research, before then discussing whether an “accelerator” type business model…
Antibiotic Resistance: What Collaboration and Policy Can Do For Our Future
Description U.S. PIRG and Harvard Law School invite you to a panel discussion about antibiotic resistance as part of Antibiotic Awareness Week. The World Health Organization ranks antibiotic resistance…
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…
Fourth Annual Harvard-UCLA Food Law and Policy Conference: Food Innovation and the Law: Navigating the Next Frontier
The Food Law Lab at Harvard Law School and the Resnick Program for Food Law & Policy at UCLA School of Law hosted the 4th Annual Harvard-UCLA Food Law and…
How Gene Cloning In Pigs Could Help Humans Fight Disease
For the next great medical advancement, look not to the test tube, but to the farm. Experiments that were done here in Boston could make it possible to one-day transplant…
Farmed Animal Law & Policy Fellowship 2017-2018, Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Animal Law & Policy Program is inviting applications for Fellowships in Farmed Animal Law & Policy for the 2017–2018 academic year. The Fellowships provide opportunities for…
The Animal Welfare Act at 50
Overview The Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School hosted The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty, a conference that brought experts together to assess the first fifty years…
Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics: New EdX Course from Faculty Director Glenn Cohen
Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning. Course begins on September 6, 2016.…
Second Annual HLS-UCLA Food Law and Policy Conference: Drugs, Animals, and Food: Law & Policy of Antibiotics in the Food System
Description The debate over antibiotic use in animal agriculture combines elements of science, ethics, politics, and law. Between fifty and eighty percent of all antibiotics sold in the United States…
Non-Human Primates in Research: Legal and Ethical Considerations
Description This discussion explored critical legal, ethical, scientific, and social issues raised by research involving non-human primates and the research centers that house them. Topics included what the current regulatory…
Salad Days: Professor Jacob Gersen on the rise of food law
From the article: [...] Much of Harvard Law School now seems hungry to talk about it, too. In addition to teaching the subject, [Jacob] Gersen founded and oversees the Food Law…
How Champion-Pony Clones Have Transformed the Game of Polo
From the article: [...] In horses, as in other species, certain experiences and conditions can cause changes to the way the DNA works in their cells. Though it has never been…
Peter Singer Advocates for Animal Rights
[...] Friday’s talk was part of a series sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at the Law School. Singer also spoke later in…
Ethics and Animals: Where Are We Now?: A lecture by Peter Singer
In this lecture by Professor Peter Singer, he argued that we owe animals equal consideration of interests. He elaborated on what that means and what changes would be required to…
Rethinking Personhood: Fetuses, Animals, and Robots
Are there entities that we do not (or would not) recognize as persons but should, or entities that we do (or would) recognize as persons but should not? Should fetuses,…