Today’s the day! 12:00-1:30pm Austin Hall, Classroom 111 Harvard Law School Please join us for a special off-the-record debate on American health care reform, moderated by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director, Einer Elhauge. John McDonough, official surrogate of the Obama campaign and director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health,…
Sorry for the late notice, but we just learned that Al Roth will be giving a talk with this title TODAY @ 3:30 at Stanford. More info here. Al has also pointed us to two relevant posts over at his Market Design blog: Allocating deceased donor kidneys for transplant: problems, some proposed changes, and how can…
Here’s (a somewhat abridged version of) this week’s newsletter from the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, with the latest bioethics news, scholarship, opinion, and other announcements. Take a look!
By Nadia N. Sawicki New York Law School’s Justice Action Center is hosting a symposium on elder law on Friday, November 16, titled “Freedom of Choice at the End of Life: Patients’ Rights in a Shifting Legal and Political Landscape.” A number of Bill of Health bloggers (myself included) will be speaking at this event,…
This past weekend was the eleventh annual Health Law Scholars Workshop, and I wanted to take a minute to congratulate the 2012 Scholars: Alena Allen (Memphis), Leo Beletsky (Northeastern), Christina Ho (Rutgers-Newark), and Lindsay Wiley (American). Each scholar had two hours dedicated to a discussion of their work, with expert reviewers including Rebecca Dresser (Wash…
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:10-6:00pm Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Room 1 Jonathan Wolff will be discussing the valuation of life and health in government policies. Free and open to the public. Stop by if you’re in Cambridge! (And don’t forget about Michael Sandel’s talk, “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets” – which…
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 at the intersection of health and law. Professors Einer Elhauge and Glenn Cohen lead the 2012-13 workshop series. The workshop’s…
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 by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director, Einer Elhauge. John McDonough, official surrogate of the Obama campaign and director of the Center for…
The Petrie-Flom Center will be co-sponsoring this lecture by Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, on his recent book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets published earlier this year. A question and answer period with Prof. Sandel and a small reception will immediately…
This year marks the start of the Petrie-Flom Center’s 8th year at Harvard Law School. If you’re in town, please join us at our annual open house to meet our affiliates and learn more about some exciting new initiatives we’ll be launching. We’ll have information on our events and programs scheduled for the upcoming semester, as well…
