Delegates at October’s UN biodiversity summit in Yerevan arrived with an awkward number in their briefing papers. The Cali Fund, created two years ago to collect a share of profits from users of genetic sequence data, had…
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in healthcare, its implications for people with disabilities warrant particular attention.
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.
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.
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…
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…
On Oct. 5, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that has the potential to greatly impact state and local municipalities’ ability to fight widespread threats to public and environmental health.
The Supreme Court’s June 2026 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter may affect how U.S. clinical trial sponsors receive long-term safety data from Europe.
Published Author Share As a forensic psychologist, I have conducted hundreds of forensic evaluations, including in cases where a defendant has raised lack of criminal responsibility — or colloquially, the “insanity defense.” These cases are…
The American Medical Association declared gun violence a “public health crisis” in 2016. In June 2024, then U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, took a significant stand on the relationship between public health and gun violence by…
