By Michelle Meyer In legal scholarship and education, innovation law and policy is virtually synonymous with intellectual property in general, and with patent law in particular. This is curious and, I think, misguided. We expend…
By Nir Eyal Yesterday, Boston public radio station WBUR interviewed a Massachusetts primary care physician who refuses to admit new obese patients. She claims that it’s because she lacks proper equipment, but she seems to have mixed motives. Earlier she had admitted…
By I. Glenn Cohen Interesting decision (H/T Wall Street Journal Law Blog ) from the D. Mass ordering the state to pay for a sex change operation for a prisoner. I’ll have more to say…
By I. Glenn Cohen As America’s attention focused on the Republican Convention and the Obama campaign tries to portray a “Republican War on Women” at the Democratic one, last week Mitt Romney tried to clarify…
[posted on behalf of Richard Epstein] The entire question of the FDA’s tobacco regulation is likely to spur extended commentary, given the split of opinions between the D.C. Circuit, which knocked out the packaging labels by…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch The Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School is in an exciting phase of expansion. One of our new initiatives is this blog, which we hope you’ll visit regularly for insightful commentary on current…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Welcome to our blog! We just wanted to introduce ourselves as the editors and thank you for stopping by. We hope you’ll do so often. First, say hi to I. Glenn Cohen.…
Next, meet Holly Fernandez Lynch (hlynch at law dot harvard dot edu). Holly is the Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center, where she was previously an academic fellow. Her scholarly work focuses on the ethics of human subjects…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Although our bloggers come from all over the place, Bill of Health is housed within the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. So here’s a little but about us, in case you’re interested.…
Bill of Health is lucky to have lined up a few really great institutional collaborators. Let’s meet them: First, HealthLawProf Blog will be cross-posting its material on our site, helping Bill of Health achieve its…
