By Leslie Francis “Waste” (according to the Oxford dictionaries online): to use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose; to become progressively weaker and more emaciated; to kill (North American usage), to devastate or…
By Scott Burris Over the past fifty years, law has become an important tool for promoting public health – and a site of dramatic social and political contests. Public health law has been an integral…
The Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce this year’s Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics Workshop. We’re delighted again to welcome a stellar lineup of leading researchers and opinion-makers in fields…
The Nova Law Review has openings in two upcoming issues and invites submissions of essays or articles. The first book with openings is the general book of the Law Review, for which the Law Review…
By Jennifer S. Bard One of the most common questions I get asked when I talk about health care reform is some version of “how is it actually going to work?” Good question. So much…
By Nicole Huberfeld The Pacific Legal Foundation seems unable to face its defeat before the Court in June. The PLF has filed a motion seeking leave to amend a complaint on behalf of a small…
By Nadia N. Sawicki In May 2011, Jennie Linn McCormack was charged with violating an Idaho law making it a felony for any woman to undergo an abortion in a manner not authorized by statute. The…
By Adriana Benedict Last week, Public Citizen published a Health GAP analysis entitled “Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Presents a Grave Threat to Access to Medicines,” in which Professor Brook Baker explains four ways in which…
“In Plain Sight: A Solution to a Fundamental Challenge in Human Research” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Forthcoming (Lois Shepard and Margaret Foster Riley, UVA) From the abstract: The conflict of interest created when…
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 Austin Hall, Classroom 111 Harvard Law School 12-1:30PM If you’re going to be in Cambridge next week, please join us for a special off-the-record debate on American health care reform, moderated…
