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From The Harvard Gazette: AI is speeding into healthcare. Who should regulate it?
Medical ethicist details need to balance thoughtful limits while avoiding unnecessary hurdles as industry groups issue guidelines.
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The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America
On Aug. 7, 2025, with Advisory Opinion OC-31/25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights took a decisive step by becoming the first international court to recognize the human right to care as an autonomous right.
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Regulating Psilocybin as Food, Not Drugs
Psilocybin should be regulated under food law rather than drug law. Doing so would serve public health, individual autonomy, and regulatory coherence.
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It’s Time to Safeguard Genomic Data
On Jan. 24, 2026, the New York Times reported that DNA sequences contributed by children and families to support a federal effort to understand adolescent brain development were later co-opted by other researchers and used to publish “race science” claims about intelligence.
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Hamm v. Smith: The Limits of Legal Certainty when Science Evolves
Can states keep IQ testing people sentenced to death until they get the “right” score for execution? What is really at the heart of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on executing people who have an intellectual disability?
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Fireside Chat: I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
Professor Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School interviews Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Senior Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. They discuss Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
