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  • Conference

    Law Professors Organize

    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…

    Law Professors Organize

  • Events

    HLS Health Law Policy Workshop – Professor Nick Bagley on Physician Bureaucrats: Why Medicare Reform Hasn’t Worked

    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…

    HLS Health Law Policy Workshop – Professor Nick Bagley on Physician Bureaucrats: Why Medicare Reform Hasn’t Worked

  • Call for Abstracts

    Announcement – Nova Law Review Openings

    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…

    Announcement – Nova Law Review Openings

  • Health Care Reform

    Now What? A Look at the Development of Health Exchanges

    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…

    Now What? A Look at the Development of Health Exchanges

  • Health Care Reform

    Uninsured Drop, But the Challenges Continue

    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…

    Uninsured Drop, But the Challenges Continue

  • Adriana Benedict

    Intellectual Property in Investment Agreements: More “Teeth” for Foreign Investors’ IP Rights, Less for Access to Medicines

    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…

    Intellectual Property in Investment Agreements: More “Teeth” for Foreign Investors’ IP Rights, Less for Access to Medicines

  • Bioethics

    New article on managing inherent conflicts in human subjects research

    “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…

    New article on managing inherent conflicts in human subjects research

  • 2012 Election

    Upcoming Event – Health Care Reform: A View from Both Sides, 9/25/12

    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…

    Upcoming Event – Health Care Reform: A View from Both Sides, 9/25/12

  • Bioethics

    Treatment of Subject Injury: Fair is Fair

    By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. Of all the protections provided in the Common Rule to safeguard the rights and welfare of research participants, there’s one glaring omission: treatment of study-related injuries. Our current regulatory apparatus…

    Treatment of Subject Injury: Fair is Fair