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Joe Sexton, featuring Francis Shen (Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience)
ProPublica

A New York judge has rejected the claim of a Brooklyn man who said his bid to have his murder conviction overturned was mishandled by a judge later found to…

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Response to coronavirus could test limits of government powers

John Kruzel, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
The Hill

From the article: “In times of emergency — including public health emergency — the temptation to violate individual rights is at its greatest, and the courts have often been…

Stakes High For Democrats And Republicans In Bid To Rush ACA To Supreme Court

Julie Rovner
NPR

[...] The stakes could not be higher. Republicans, who originally rode their spirited criticism of President Barack Obama's signature health law to take control of Congress, suffered serious election defeats…

Judges Rule Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional, But Kick Case Back To Lower Court For Review Of Severability

Kaiser Health News

KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations In a long-awaited decision, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans agreed with Judge…

Supreme Court leaves in place Kentucky abortion restriction: The justices did not offer an explanation for their decision to refuse to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling upholding the restrictions.

Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law requiring abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and show and describe it to the patient, regardless of the patient'…

New York judge tosses Trump administration’s conscience rule: The rule allowed health plans to refuse to cover or perform any services they oppose on religious or moral grounds.

Susannah Luthi
Politico

A federal judge in New York tossed the Trump administration's "conscience rule" that would allow health plans and providers to refuse to cover or perform services like abortion, contraception…

Judge temporarily blocks Trump order requiring would-be immigrants to prove they have health insurance

Yasmeen Abutaleb, Jeff Stein, and Kayla Epstein
Washington Post

Immigration attorneys and health officials on Sunday said they still fear that a Trump administration order placing health insurance requirements on would-be immigrants will stymie family-based immigration and sow confusion…

Health Law Workshop: Nicholas Bagley: The ACA and Executive Power, Ten Years In

October 21, 2019

Presentation Topic: "The ACA and Executive Power, Ten Years In" The readings for this presentation are not available for download. About the Presenter Nicholas Bagley is Professor of Law at…

Trump administration plans to delay any changes if the ACA loses in court

Paige Winfield Cunningham and Yasmeen Abutaleb
Washington Post

If a federal appeals court invalidates the Affordable Care Act in the coming weeks, the Trump administration, which has consistently tried to overturn the law, might be expected to celebrate.…

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Abortion Battles in Mexico and Beyond: The Role of Law and the Courts

October 4, 2019
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the speakers' blog posts! Description Battles over sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly abortion rights, are occurring around…

Health Law Workshop: Dov Fox: Redressing Future Losses

September 9, 2019

Presentation Download the Presentation: "Redressing Future Losses" About the Presenter Dov Fox is the Herzog Endowed Scholar, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Health Law Policy &…

Why Donald Trump needs Obamacare

Tami Luhby, quoting Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
CNN

From the article: President Donald Trump wants to kill Obamacare, but it will be a lot harder for him to fulfill his own health care promises without the landmark health…

Health Law Workshop: Natalie Ram

October 22, 2018

Presentation Topic: "Rebuilding Privacy Practices after Carpenter" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Minnich at jminnich@law…

In whose best interests: The impact of globalised medicine on on withdrawal of treatment decisions in the UK

David Locke & Carmel Shachar (Executive Director)
New Law Journal

From the article: As a feature of the progressive globalisation of medicine, the recent, heavily litigated, trio of cases involving the withdrawal of treatment from infants (Charlie Gard, Isiah Haastrup…

Perspective: Will Courts Allow States to Regulate Drug Prices?

Christopher Robertson (Academic Fellow Alumnus)
NEJM

From the article: Pharmaceuticals are consuming increasingly large portions of U.S. state budgets, and high prices are preventing patients from getting, and adhering to, essential medicines. In mid-May 2018, President…

Abortion row reignites as US Supreme Court justice retires

By AFP, quoting Allison K. Hoffman (Academic Fellow Alumna)
The Citizen

From the article: Allison Hoffman, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, says many Supreme Court decisions that fell short of a full repeal of Row vs Wade have…

2018 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics

June 1, 2018
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Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides here! "Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as…

Our Aging Brains: Decision-making, Fraud, and Undue Influence

April 27, 2018
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Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation online! #OurAgingBrains @PetrieFlom @mghclbb Check out some of the panelists' slide presentations below! With over 70 million Baby Boomers retiring, elder financial exploitation…

The Work of the Supreme Court: A Lecture by Stephen Breyer

Hosted by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

PLEASE NOTE: A Harvard ID is required in order to attend this event. Harvard affiliates: RSVP now!

Divorced couple take their fight over frozen embryos to Colorado Supreme Court

Andrew Fies, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
ABC News

From the story: What happens when the parents who created frozen embryos go to war with each other over whether to procreate with them or destroy them? That's the…

Court to weigh if one parent has the right to use frozen embryos if the other objects: Case before the Colorado Supreme Court hinges on a person's right to procreate - or not procreate.

Ariana Eunjung Cha, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Washington Post

From the article: On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Rookses' case. Although several other cases have made their way to states' high courts, legal…

Book Launch: Law, Religion, and Health in the United States

September 27, 2017
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In July 2017, Cambridge University Press published Law, Religion, and Health in the United States, co-edited by outgoing Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch, Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, and…

The Neurolaw Revolution: A lecture by Francis X. Shen

September 13, 2017
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the panelist's slide presentation below! Description Rapid advances in the brain sciences offer both promise and peril for the law.…

ORDER NOW & GET 20% OFF! Law, Religion, and Health in the United States

Holly Fernandez Lynch (Executive Director), I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and Elizabeth Sepper
Cambridge University Press

About the Book: While the law can create conflict between religion and health, it can also facilitate religious accommodation and protection of conscience. Finding this balance is critical to addressing…

Second Chance Kids

Featuring Robert Kinscherff (Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience)
Frontline, PBS

On May 2, 2017, PBS's Frontline aired "Second Chance Kids," an exploration of the fight over the fate of juveniles in prison for murder, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Robert…

Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review

January 23, 2017
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Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides as well as the Health Affairs blog symposium! Description The Fifth Annual Health Law Year in…

How Donald Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Endangers Women

Allison K. Hoffman (Academic Fellow Alumna) and Jill R. Horwitz
New York Times

LOS ANGELES — With the selection of Representative Tom Price as secretary of health and human services, President-elect Donald J. Trump has taken a giant step toward undermining the health…

Half A Life: Legal and Policy Implications of Releasing Youth Incarcerated for Murder

November 15, 2016
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Couldn't attend the event? Check out the speakers' slide presentations below! Description Youth convicted of murder ordinarily serve decades in prison before they complete a sentence or are paroled.…

Religion, Medicine, and Law: Can Current Conflicts Be Healed?: HLS Dean Martha Minow to Deliver 2016 George W. Gay Lecture

Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

2016 George W. Gay Lecture Religion, Medicine, and Law: Can Current Conflicts Be Healed? Martha Minow Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Thursday, November 3, 2016, 4:30 …

Regulating Off-Label Promotion — A Critical Test: New NEJM Perspective Article

Christopher Robertson, JD, PhD (Academic Fellow Alumnus) and Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH (Faculty Affiliate)
NEJM

Petrie-Flom Academic Alumnus Christopher T. Robertson and Faculty Affiliate Aaron S. Kesselheim have coauthored a new Perspective article in NEJM on recent judicial decisions regarding off-label promotion of pharmaceuticals. From…

Health Care after the Election

October 24, 2016
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Looking for more on this topic now that the election has been decided? Check out our 5th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review on January 23, 2017. At this full-day event,…

Harvard Medical Ethicists Challenge Court Ruling on Lethal Injection in Alabama Case: Amicus Brief Co-Authored by Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Ekaterina Pesheva Director, Science Communications and Media Relations 617.432.0441 ekaterina_pesheva@hms.harvard.edu HARVARD MEDICAL ETHICISTS CHALLENGE COURT RULING ON LETHAL INJECTION IN ALABAMA CASE …

Workshop on Pretrial Justice: What Works and Why

September 26 - 28, 2016
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In September 2016, the Federal Judicial Center hosted a workshop for federal judges and law enforcement officials on issues relating to pretrial diversionary courts, exploring the question of "What Works and…

Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics: New EdX Course from Faculty Director Glenn Cohen

Petrie-Flom Center

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.…

Bosses in the Bedroom: Religious Employers and the Future of Employer-Sponsored Health Care

Holly Fernandez Lynch (Executive Director) and Gregory Curfman
In Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Elizabeth Sepper, eds.), forthcoming 2017, Cambridge University Press

Abstract: This chapter uses the controversy over mandated contraceptive coverage in employer health plans as a jumping-off point to do two things: (1) evaluate the proper scope of religion in the…

Contrived Threats v. Uncontrived Warnings: A General Solution to the Puzzles of Contractual Duress, Unconstitutional Conditions, and Blackmail

Einer Elhauge (Founding Faculty Director)
83 University of Chicago Law Review 503

Abstract: Contractual duress, unconstitutional conditions, and blackmail have long been puzzling. The puzzle is why these doctrines sometimes condemn threatening lawful action to induce agreements but sometimes do not. This…

Resolving Reverse-Payment Settlements with the Smoking Gun of Stock Price Movements

Thomas G. McGuire, Keith Drake, Einer Elhauge (Founding Faculty Director), Raymond S. Hartman, Martha Starr
81 Iowa Law Review 1581

Abstract: The Supreme Court recently held that in reverse-payment settlements of drug patent disputes, anticompetitive effects can be inferred if the reverse payment exceeds the patent holder’s anticipated…

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Boys to Men to Boys

April 13, 2016
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out more information, including related publications and our speakers' slides, below! Description Approximately 2,000 youth sentenced to life without parole are now serving…

The Limits to Consumerism in Health Care: A Lecture by Mary Anne Bobinski

March 2, 2016
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Couldn't attend the event? Check out some of our speakers' slide presentations! Description It is often said that health care has moved from paternalism, in the form of &ldquo…

Scalia’s death shakes contraception mandate, other high-profile court cases

Tom Howell Jr., quoting Holly Fernandez Lynch (Executive Director)
Washington Times

[...] Legal analysts it’s not unusual to have different legal treatment from one area to the next. “States do things differently all the time,” said Holly Lynch,…

Fetal Pain: An Update on the Science and Legal Implications

February 10, 2016
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Learn more about the presentations - check out slides below! Amanda Pustilnik, JD and Maureen Strafford MD discussed fetal pain, including advances in neuroscience and treatment and their implications for…

Fourth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review

January 29, 2016
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Couldn't attend in person? Learn more about the event: Learn more about the presentations - check out select speakers' slides below! Check out the collaborative blog series on the…

Health Law Workshop: Seema Shah

November 16, 2015

Presentation Download the presentation: "Uncertainty and the Eighth Amendment" About the Presenter Seema Shah is a faculty member in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Department of Bioethics and…

Scholars Discuss Role of Neuroscience in Youth Criminal Justice: Summary of Project on Law & Applied Neuroscience Panel on the Neuroscience of Teen Sentencing

Jonah S. Lefkoe
Harvard Crimson

Check out the Harvard Crimson's summary of our first event of the year, "From Trouble Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and the Law." This event…

From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law

September 28, 2015
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Read the Harvard Crimson's summary of the event! Description The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing impact on American jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on…

Big Data, Patents, and the Future of Medicine

W. Nicholson Price II (Academic Fellow Alumnus)
Cardozo Law Review, Forthcoming

Abstract: Big data has tremendous potential to improve health care. Unfortunately, intellectual property law isn’t ready to support that leap. In the next wave of data-driven medicine, black-box…

With The ACA Secure, It’s Time To Focus On Social Determinants

Lauren Taylor (Student Fellow alumna) and Elizabeth Bradley
Health Affairs Blog

From the article: While Medicaid expansion remains a dream for Americans in many states, the integrity of both the state and federal marketplaces for insurance remained intact following the June 25…

Religious nonprofits not losing faith after latest failed Obamacare birth control mandate appeal

Tom Howell Jr., quoting Holly F. Lynch (Executive Director)
The Washington Times

From the article: [...] Wednesday’s opinion against Wheaton came nine days after the Fifth Circuit turned back Baptist universities in Texas who objected to the mandate. “Four circuits…

Happy about the Supreme Court’s ACA decision? Thank a law professor

Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow)
The Conversation

From the post: The core of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has now survived its second trip to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in…

2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America

May 8 - 9, 2015
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Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Conference Description Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly…

After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar's, What Is God's?

May 7, 2015
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Couldn't join us in person? Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth Pre-Conference Session As prelude to the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,…

Innovation Law and Policy: Preserving the Future of Personalized Medicine

Rachel E. Sachs
U. C. Davis Law Review

Academic Fellow Rachel E. Sachs has a new article forthcoming in 2016 on law and the future of personalized medicine. From the article: Personalized medicine is the future of health care,…

King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act

April 1, 2015
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Couldn't attend in person? Check out posts from several of our speakers responding to the Supreme Court's decision in the case, on the Health Affairs Blog. Links to…

Visiting Scholar Lydia Stewart Ferreira Elected to Ontario Deputy Judges: Association Board of Directors

Petrie-Flom Center

Visiting Scholar Lydia Stewart Ferreira and Deputy Judge with Ontario's Superior Court of Justice has been elected to the Ontario Deputy Judges Association (ODJA) Board of Directors. Lydia received…

Book Launch: Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach

March 11, 2015

Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach is an edited volume that grew out of the 2012 conference "Identified versus Statistical Lives: Ethics and Public Policy," cosponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center,…

Opening shots fired in Obamacare Supreme Court battle

Tom Howell Jr., quoting Matthew Lawrence (Academic Fellow)
The Washington Times

From the article: Congressman Paul Ryan and other influential Republicans sketched out plans Tuesday for how they'd deal with a Supreme Court ruling that cancels Obamacare's subsidies in…

Identified Versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Edited by I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Norman Daniels, Nir Eyal
Social Science Research Network

Identified Versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective(Oxford University Press, 2015) is an edited volume that addresses the identified lives effect, which describes the fact that people demonstrate a stronger inclination…

Founding Faculty Director Einer Elhauge Cited in SCOTUS Decision

Petrie-Flom

On February 25, 2015, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission. The majority opinion, handed down by Justice Kennedy, cited…

Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review collaborative blogging with Health Affairs

Petrie-Flom

The Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review was a big success! Video will be posted on our website shortly, but our presenters will be posting on their respective…

Republicans release Obamacare Plan B in case of repeal or court ruling: Sylvia Mathews Burwell refuses to say if White House backup plan in place

Tom Howell Jr., quoting Matthew J. B. Lawrence (Academic Fellow)
Washington Times

[...] Matthew Lawrence, who teaches a seminar on Obamacare at Harvard Law School , said the administration’s silence is unsurprising for several reasons. Any planning may be in its early…

Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review

January 30, 2015
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Couldn't make it in person? Check out the individual sessions in the videos linked above and the collaborative blog series on the Health Affairs Blog (links below)! The Third…

Hatch op-ed being used to defend Obamacare in Supreme Court case

Tom Howell Jr.
Washington Times

[...] In cases like these, it is fairly common for interested parties to “use whatever they can to flavor their arguments in the briefs,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a…

Courts wrestle with wave of new state abortion laws

Paige Winfield Cunningham, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Politico

[...] As courts weigh the legal challenges to these laws, they’re being asked to spell out exactly how far states can go in regulating abortion and what requirements go…

Book Launch: The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children

April 10, 2014

The launch of Professor Ross E. Cheit's new book The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, April 2014), has become widely accepted that…

Appeals court upholds Obamacare tax as constitutional

Stephen Dinan and Tom Howell Jr., quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Washington Times

[...] Legal scholars say origination clause challenges, historically, have been a tough sell in the courts. Indeed, it is “very rarely litigated,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a health expert…

Appeals court upholds Obamacare tax as constitutional

Stephen Dinan and Tom Howell Jr., quoting I. Glenn Cohen
Washington Times

[...] Legal scholars say origination clause challenges, historically, have been a tough sell in the courts. Indeed, it is “very rarely litigated,” said I. Glenn Cohen, a health expert…

D.C. appeals panel deals big blow to Obamacare subsidies: But second court backs administration on key part of law

Tom Howell Jr., quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Washington Times

[...] To redress the potentially fatal blow to its signature law, the administration will likely seek an “en banc” hearing on the case by all the judges in the…

After Hobby Lobby, ACA exceptions may become the rule

Interview with Holly Fernandez Lynch (Executive Director)
Reuters

Holly Fernandez Lynch analyzes the impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision, saying the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), passed by Congress, will shape the impact as much as…

When Religious Freedom Clashes with Access to Care: A NEJM Perspective Article on the SCOTUS Hobby Lobby Decision

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Holly Fernandez Lynch (Executive Director), Gregory Curfman
NEJM

At the tail end of this year's Supreme Court term, religious freedom came into sharp conflict with the government's interest in providing affordable access to health care. In…

Hobby Lobby stunner: Supreme Court issues long-awaited ruling in birth-control dispute

Tom Howell Jr., quoting Holly Fernandez Lynch (Executive Director)
Washington Times

[...] Holly Lynch, a health and ethics expert at Harvard Law School, said she was “not surprised in the least that contraceptives in particular were not covered directly in the…

Clashing Rights: Free Speech and Reproductive Autonomy

featuring I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Northeastern University Program on Health Policy and Law

In recent years, the First Amendment’s free speech clause has played an increasingly critical role in the battle over reproductive rights. For example, states seeking to limit access…

Make it Work!:: Breyer on Patents in the Life Sciences

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Co-Director)
Harvard Law Review 128

This short essay is part of a Harvard Law Review Symposium honoring Justice Breyer on his 20th Year on The Supreme Court. It examines Breyer's opinions and impact on…

Everything You Need to Know about the Healthcare Contraception Mandate

Cristina Goyanes, interview with Holly Lynch (Petrie-Flom Executive Director)
Shape

[...] Starting March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing religious disputes over the contraception mandate, which requires employer health insurance coverage of contraceptive methods (without deductibles or co-pays). The…

Was the Medicaid Expansion Coercive?

I. Glenn Cohen (Petrie-Flom Faculty Co-Director)
Routledge

In The Affordable Care Act Decision: Philosophical and Legal Implications, Fritz Allhoff and Mark Hall, eds. In this book chapter on the ACA decision, NFIB v. Sebelius, I focus on…

Religious groups to back Obamacare contraceptive mandate: Face dilemma over freedom, government rules on women

Tom Howell, Jr. quoting Holly Fernandez Lynch (Petrie-Flom Executive Director)
Washington Post

[...] In its filing, the AJC said the case presents a rare instance in which they see a clash between religious liberty and the equal rights of women. They said the…

Supreme Court Position on Obamacare Birth Control Mandate a Tough Call

Tom Howell, Jr., quoting Holly Fernandez Lynch
Washington Times

[...] "It also probably will not matter that three of the court’s justices - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan - are female, even if the case…

The Jurisdiction of the D.C. Circuit

Eric M. Fraser, David K. Kessler, Matthew J.B. Lawrence, and Stephen Calhoun
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 23, No. 1

Abstract: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is unique among federal courts. It is well known for its unusual caseload, which is disproportionally weighted toward…

Supreme Court to decide Obamacare birth control mandate

Tom Howell Jr., quoting Holly Fernandez Lynch
Washington Times

[...] Ms. Lynch said the outcome is a particularly hard one to predict. But she thinks the court will dispense with the constitutional claims and focus more heavily on religious-freedom protection…

Genes without Patents: ACLU attorney joins discussion of Supreme Court case

Alvin Powell, featuring I. Glenn Cohen
Harvard Gazette

As Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan questioned Myriad Genetics’ attorney about patenting genes, Chris Hansen rejoiced. The attorney said that yes, genes should be patentable. But it was only…

Chris Hansen on “Dis-Owning Nature: The BRCA Gene Patents and the Supreme Court”

Featuring I. Glenn Cohen as a discussant
Program on Science, Technology, & Society at HKS

ABOUT THE SPEAKER Chris Hansen joined the ACLU in 1973. He spent 10 years at the NYCLU specializing in complex litigation seeking reform of the mental retardation and mental health systems. He…

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Reproductive Rights around the Globe

November 7, 2013
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This discussion of selected topics in the field of international reproductive rights addressed a range of issues. Expert panelists were: I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty…

When Less Information is Better: Blinding as a Solution to Institutional Corruption

November 1, 2013

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University presented a multidisciplinary symposium that examined potential solutions to institutional corruption that use blinding: the strategy of concealing biasing information…

Plan B: access to emergency contraception in the legal and political cross hairs

I. Glenn Cohen, Lisa Sullivan, Eli Y. Adashi
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, Contraception Journal

The 8-year legal feud over access to emergency contraception between reproductive health advocates and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took multiple unexpected turns before coming to an abrupt end…

Obamacare becomes test of faith for employer over birth control

Tom Howell, Jr. quoting Holly Fernandez Lynch
The Washington Times

[...] The battle lines are drawn, but analysts of all stripes agree the case is on the fast-track for the highest court in the land. “I think it’s…

At Harvard Law School, a panel ponders the effects of the Court’s ruling on gene patenting

Dick Dahl
Spotlight at Harvard Law School

Experts in the fields of law, science, and technology gathered at Harvard Law School Sept. 23 for a panel discussion, co-sponsored by the Broad Institute of MIT and HLS' Petrie-Flom Center…

Government: When push comes to nudge: How a choice offered can affect what we choose.

Michelle N. Meyer and Christopher Chabris
Los Angeles Times

Co-authored by Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow Alumna Michelle N. Meyer: News came last month that the Obama administration, following the lead of British Prime Minister David Cameron and his government's…

HLS Panel Discusses Gene Patents

Andrew Ma
The Harvard Crimson

"Panelists at Monday’s discussion about the recent Supreme Court decision against gene patenting agreed that although patenting might provide incentives to aspiring innovators, it often hinders scientific progress,…

Gene Patenting, the Supreme Court’s Myriad Decision, and the Future of Biotechnology: A Panel Discussion

September 23, 2013

Moderated by Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School, this panel will focus on the impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision in the Myriad case that naturally occurring…

When Truth Cannot Be Presumed: The Regulation of Drug Promotion under an Expanding First Amendment

Christopher T. Robertson
Boston University Law Review

Abstract: The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”) requires that, prior to marketing a drug, the manufacturer must prove that it is safe and effective for the manufacturer…

Personalized Medicine Patenting

March 06, 2013

Pharmaceutical researchers pursue medical treatment and diagnostic methods to target diseases specific to certain demographic groups. Such pursuit is often motivated by commercialization through patenting. Are these research innovations a…

Compliance with and Enforcement of US Healthcare Laws: Evolution of Modern Life Sciences Compliance

2-18-13

There have been a number of prosecutions of life sciences companies under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the qui tam whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. Allegations…

Health Law Year in P/Review

February 1, 2013

2012 was an historic year for health law, with the Supreme Court issuing the final word on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act alongside a host of other critical developments. 2013…

Cohen amicus brief discussed before Supreme Court

Supreme Court Transcript

ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY, ET AL., Petitioners v. MYRIAD GENETICS, INC., ET AL.

The Guatemala STD Inoculation Studies: What Should We Do Now?

November 13, 2016

In the late 1940s, U.S. and Guatemalan researchers conducted a host of experiments on vulnerable Guatemalan subjects, purposefully exposing them to and infecting them with a number of STDs…

Obamacare on Trial: A Booktalk with Einer Elhauge

November 1, 2016

The panel discussion on Petrie-Flom Center Founding Faculty Director Einer Elhauge’s book Obamacare on Trial featured: Einer Elhauge I. Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School and the Petrie-Flom…

Facilitating Offender Re-entry to Reduce Recidivism: Federal Judicial Center Workshop

September 7-9, 2011

This Federal Judicial Center (FJC) workshop focused on facilitating offender re-entry to reduce recidivism, a major priority for Attorney General Eric Holder in his review of federal sentencing and corrections…

Patent Policy and Innovation

April 23, 2010

This panel focused on how patent law affects various industries differently. The pharmaceutical and high-tech industries offer perhaps the most vivid examples of this divergence. Panelists discussed whether patent law…