Social Media on Trial: Neuroscience, Addiction, and the Law
NOV
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Join us for a lunchtime webinar on the neuroscience of social media use and its implications for law and public policy.
Call for Abstracts: Generative AI in Health Care
As part of our Petrie-Flom Center 2027 Annual Conference we seek papers that offer innovative perspectives and inventive approaches.
Who Counts as Infertile? A Missed Opportunity for Inclusion
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen recently co-wrote a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine addressing gaps in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of infertility.
The Future of Family Planning Is Here. Is the Constitution Ready?
Published in the MIT Press Reader, Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen writes about reproductive technology.
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Bill of Health, the blog of the Petrie-Flom Center
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The Disability Gap in Healthcare AI: From Bias to Inclusive Co-Design, Testing, Deployment, and Governance
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in healthcare, its implications for people with disabilities warrant particular attention.
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Event Recap: What Is Health Law?
On September 30, five prominent Harvard Law School alumni told a packed room about how the field of health law has developed, through the lens of the varied paths that led them to their careers.
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Clinical AI Should Earn Its Autonomy the Way Doctors Do
Medicine has long had a way to decide when someone is ready to practice alone: supervise them until they have earned it. Health AI is still looking for its version of that process.
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Call for Abstracts — 2027 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Generative AI in Healthcare: Law & Regulation
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce our 2027 Annual Conference, Generative AI in Healthcare: Law and Regulation. Generative AI –- artificial intelligence designed to produce output, such as text or images, that normally require human intelligence — has become a…
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Judicial Dialogues on Health and Climate Change: An Interview With Alicia Ely Yamin
How can courts respond to the health impacts of climate change? On the occasion of a conference at Harvard Law School on 29 October 2026, sponsored by the Walter de Gruyter Foundation, we spoke with one of its conveners, Alicia Ely Yamin, about the right to health, climate change, and the role of judicial enforcement.
