Holly Fernandez Lynch

  • Read more: TOMORROW, 3/25 in NYC! Book Talk & Panel: FDA in the 21st Century – The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies
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    TOMORROW, 3/25 in NYC! Book Talk & Panel: FDA in the 21st Century – The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies

    FDA in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies March 25, 2016 12:00 PM 92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Ave. (at 92nd St.), New York, NY Join co-editors Holly Fernandez Lynch (Petrie-Flom Executive Director) and I. Glenn Cohen (Petrie-Flom Faculty Director) and contributor Lewis Grossman (American University) for a discussion of FDA in the 21st Century: The Challenges…

  • Read more: New Developments in the Guatemala STD Experiments Case
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    New Developments in the Guatemala STD Experiments Case

    In the late 1940s, US government scientists, in collaboration with Guatemalan counterparts, were involved in a horrible array of experiments on human subjects in which a variety of vulnerable groups in Guatemala were intentionally infected with syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid and left without treatment. [For more on how they ended up in Guatemala and the ethics…

  • Read more: Book Launch (10/28)! FDA in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies
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    Book Launch (10/28)! FDA in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies

    Book Launch: FDA in the 21st Century October 28, 2015 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, HLS 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] In September 2015, Columbia University Press published FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch and Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen. This edited volume stems…

  • Read more: NEXT WEEK (10/15): Obamacare, the Contraceptive Mandate, and Religious Freedom Discussion
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    NEXT WEEK (10/15): Obamacare, the Contraceptive Mandate, and Religious Freedom Discussion

    Obamacare, the Contraceptive Mandate, and Religious Freedom Discussion Thursday, October 15, 2015 12:00 – 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 2012 Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA [Map] The Harvard Federalist Society will be hosting Mark Rienzi next Thursday, October 15 to discuss the current contraceptive mandate and accommodation lawsuits. Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly F. Lynch will…

  • Read more: A Circuit Split on Contraceptives Coverage
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    A Circuit Split on Contraceptives Coverage

    Perhaps foreshadowed by the dissent in the 10th Circuit that I wrote about here, the 8th Circuit has now officially launched a circuit split regarding the legal validity of the accommodation that allows modified compliance/objection to the contraceptives coverage mandate.  Unlike the seven other circuits to have considered the question since Hobby Lobby, the 8th Circuit…

  • Read more: I Concur with the Dissent (or, More on Little Sisters)
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    I Concur with the Dissent (or, More on Little Sisters)

    On September 3, the 10th Circuit declined to rehear en banc several challenges to the contraceptives coverage mandate filed by non-profit organizations, including Little Sisters of the Poor. As SCOTUSBlog explains, these organizations had not themselves asked for en banc review, having already moved on to SCOTUS, but the judges have the option of calling…

  • Read more: NOW AVAILABLE: FDA in the 21st Century: Get 30% Off When You Order through the Press!
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    NOW AVAILABLE: FDA in the 21st Century: Get 30% Off When You Order through the Press!

    Just out from Columbia University Press, FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies! This volume, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch and Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, stems from the Center’s 2013 annual conference, which brought together leading experts from academia, government, and private industry to evaluate the FDA and to begin charting a course for…

  • Read more: Thank you for 3 great years!
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    Thank you for 3 great years!

    Three years ago today, we launched the Bill of Health blog to create a one-stop-shop for readers interested in news, commentary, and scholarship in the fields of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics. We have been thrilled at the blog’s success and reach so far. A few quick stats: We have 90 contributors from 49 institutions around…

  • Read more: Another Opinion Upholding the Contraceptives Coverage Accommodation
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    Another Opinion Upholding the Contraceptives Coverage Accommodation

    Today, the 10th Circuit issued its opinion in the Little Sisters of the Poor case, holding that the accommodation offered to religious nonprofits – and now also to certain closely-held for-profits – is legally acceptable under the standard imposed by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).  The accommodation, just recently finalized in its current form,…

  • Read more: New HHS Rules on Contraceptive Coverage
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    New HHS Rules on Contraceptive Coverage

    Today, HHS released new final regulations further clarifying the contraceptives coverage mandate.  I have not had the chance to fully digest these, but you can read them here. Key nuggets, pulled straight from the text: These final regulations continue to allow eligible organizations to choose between using EBSA Form 700 or the alternative process consistent with the…