The Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. The workshop is led by Professor I. Glenn Cohen, and presenters come from a wide range of disciplines and departments. Harvard graduate students may register to take the workshop for course credit. We are unable to make the Workshop public beyond the Harvard University Community. If you are a Harvard-affiliate and interested in enrolling or auditing this workshop, please reach out to Professor Cohen and his assistant, David LeBreton at dlebreton@law.harvard.edu.

Even though the Workshop is not open to the public, we still want to share who is coming to speak. A full list can be found below. Be sure to keep an eye on our blog, Bill of Health, as we hope to share some of the Workshop content there.

James Toomey
Associate Professor of Law
University of Iowa College of Law
September 9th, 2024
Presentation: “Fiduciary Standards”

Shelly Simana
Assistant Professor
Boston College Law School
September 16, 2024
Presentation: “Relational Self-Ownership: The Case for Genetic Reciprocity”

Sam Halabi
Director, Center for Transformational Health Law
O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Professor, Georgetown University School of Health
September 23, 2024
Presentation: “Addressing Gaps in the Global Legal Architecture for Developing Vaccines Against Neglected Diseases”

Robin Feldman
Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law
Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair
Director of the Center for Innovation (C4i)
University of California Law
September 30, 2024
Presentation: “Dance of the Biologics”

Brendan Saloner
Bloomberg Professor of American Health in Addiction and Overdose
Dept. of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
October 7, 2024
Presentation: “Is Legally Mandated Treatment a Blunt but Necessary Tool in Substance Use Policy?”

Anup Malani
Lee and Brena Freeman Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Professor, Printzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago (courtesy)
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research 
Faculty Director, International Innovation Corps
October 21, 2024
Presentation: “The Economics of Healthcare Fraud”

S. Matthew Liao
Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics
Director, Center for Bioethics
Affiliated Professor, Department of Philosophy
New York University
October 28, 2024
Presentation: “Understanding Privacy: The Personal Agential Realm Theory and Its Implications”

Kimberly Mutcherson
Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School
November 4, 2024
Presentation: “Potential Life as a Tool of Subordination”

Rachel E. Sachs
Professor of Law
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
November 11, 2024
Presentation: “A New Framework for Evaluating Drug Pricing Law and Policy”

Teneille R. Brown
James I. Farr Professor of Law
Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development
Director, Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences (LABS)
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
November 18, 2024
Presentation: “Brain Death and the Bio-Legal Mismatch”

Jacob T. Elberg
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law
Seton Hall University School of Law
November 25, 2024
Presentation: “Money Over Everything: Reprioritizing Health Care Enforcement”

Mason Marks
Florida Bar Health Law Section Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Visting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Senior Fellow & Project Lead of POPLAR, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School
December 2, 2024
Presentation: “Constitutional Drug Decriminalization”