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Petrie-Flom Center

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is a prominent research program dedicated to legal analysis and interdisciplinary scholarship on the questions facing health policymakers, medical professionals, industry leaders, patients, and families. The Center was founded in 2005 through a generous gift from Joseph H. Flom ’48 and the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation.

  • Bioethics

    Graduate Students, ACA Section 2714, and Medical Debt

    Special guest post by Marissa Lawall  Arguably the most popular provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), section 2714 (42 U.S.C. § 300gg-14) provides that individuals may stay on their parent’s insurance plan until they are…

    Graduate Students, ACA Section 2714, and Medical Debt

  • Events

    The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

    The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium February 9, 2018, 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA In…

    The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

  • Criminal Law

    NEW EVENT (1/29)! Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness

    Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness January 29, 2018, 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 3007 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Please join us for a talk with Trevor Hoppe on his book, Punishing Disease:…

    NEW EVENT (1/29)! Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness

  • Bioethics

    Medicaid Program Under Siege

    This new post by Robert Greenwald and Judith Solomon appears on the Health Affairs Blog as part of a series stemming from the Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, December 12,…

    Medicaid Program Under Siege

  • Animals

    REGISTER NOW! Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States

    Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States January 26, 2018 Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Please join the ILAR Roundtable, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,…

    REGISTER NOW! Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States

  • Bioethics

    Searching For Stability: The Political Future Of The Affordable Care Act

    This new post by Benjamin Sommers and John McDonough appears on the Health Affairs Blog as part of a series stemming from the Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, December…

    Searching For Stability: The Political Future Of The Affordable Care Act

  • Bioethics

    Crimes of Passion: New Neuroscience vs. Old Doctrine

    Crimes of Passion: New Neuroscience vs. Old Doctrine February 14, 2018 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West (2019) Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA On Valentine’s Day we celebrate love. But the criminal law often sees…

    Crimes of Passion: New Neuroscience vs. Old Doctrine

  • Bioethics

    Whither Private Health Insurance Now?

    This new post by Wendy Mariner appears on the Health Affairs Blog as part of a series stemming from the Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Congress has…

    Whither Private Health Insurance Now?