Presentation Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics The readings are not available for download. Please contact Jennifer Minnich (jminnich@law.harvard.edu) to receive a copy in preparation for the workshop. This presentation is drawn from the forthcoming volume Disability, Health, Law, and Ethics, co-edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Anita Silvers, and Michael Ashley Stein. The book,…
Presentation Americans on Drugs: Six Drugs, Three Regimes, and the Making of the American Drug User About the Presenter Kimani Paul-Emile is a Professor of Law, Associate Director and Head of Domestic Programs and Initiatives at Fordham Law School’s Center on Race, Law & Justice, and Faculty Co-Director of the Fordham Law School Stein Center…
The FDA recently approved Keytruda and Vitrakvi, two cancer drugs targeting biomarkers without reference to the site of the disease. Defining cancer in terms of biomarkers alone may require us to rethink the design of clinical trials and raises challenges for the traditional FDA approval process. What is the future of these so-called “tumor-agnostic” therapies,…
Presentation Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America This presentation is not available for download. About the Presenter Lewis Grossman is Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he has taught since 1997 and where he served as Associate Dean for Scholarship from 2008 to 2011. He teaches and…
Presentation Adaptive Intellectual Property About the Presenter Jacob S. Sherkow is the 2019-2020 Edmond J. Safra Center and Petrie-Flom Center Fellow in Ethics of Technological and Biomedical Innovation. He is a Professor of Law at the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School, where he teaches a variety of courses related…
Presentation Towards a New Bioengineering Ethics The readings for this presentation are not available for download. About the Presenter Insoo Hyun is Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Faculty Member of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. As a Fulbright Scholar and Hastings Center Fellow,…
Description The future of neuroscience and law will be a computational future, as both fields are increasingly integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning. But what will this future look like? Can AI and digital technologies promote justice, diversity, and inclusion? Or will these technologies replicate, or even exacerbate, existing inequalities and biases? In this lunchtime…
Presentation The ACA and Executive Power, Ten Years In About the Presenter Nicholas Bagley is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where he teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, regulatory theory, and health law. Prior to joining the Law School faculty, he was an attorney with the appellate…
Description After decades of efforts to better regulate the sale of tobacco products, the U.S. has finally seen reductions in overall smoking levels. However, new dangers emerging from growing use of electronic cigarettes have threatened some of these public health advances, leaving the FDA and legislators scrambling. At this event, expert panelists discussed lessons we…
Description How can India take advantage of data to achieve its developmental objectives while balancing the need for personal privacy? The recently implemented Account Aggregator framework tries to establish a digital consent architecture to allow post-collection transfers of data. This will unlock a number of financial models to serve those who are not currently part…
