Past Events

  • Read more: Neuroscience and Cannabis: Implications for Law and Policy
    Apr 18 2024
    Law & Neuroscience

    Neuroscience and Cannabis: Implications for Law and Policy

    Recording

    The legalization of cannabis has raised significant questions for law and public policy. In her annual lecture, neuroscientist Dr. Yasmin Hurd explored the science of cannabis, CBD, and the future of substance use disorder treatment. Dr. Stephanie Tabashneck moderated a discussion and audience Q&A about the implications for law and policy.  Recording Panelists This event is part of the Project…

  • Read more: Case Update: The European Court of Human Rights’ Climate Judgments
    Apr 18 2024
    Global Health & Human Rights

    Case Update: The European Court of Human Rights’ Climate Judgments

    On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights decided its first ever climate cases: Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, Carême v. France, and Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others. In these landmark cases plaintiffs sued 33 European governments, including the entire European Union, for their failure to adequately curb greenhouse gas emissions….

  • Read more: Bioethics, Legal Ethics, and Ethics of Care: An Introduction to Psychedelics and Ethics
    Apr 16 2024
    Psychedelics & Drug Policy

    Bioethics, Legal Ethics, and Ethics of Care: An Introduction to Psychedelics and Ethics

    Recording

    This event launched the Center for the Study of World Religion’s new “Psychedelics & Ethics” initiative, which brings together interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to explore ethical questions surrounding psychedelics. The series seeks to create a forum for constructive conversations about the role of psychedelics in society, with an eye toward justice and care. For our opening…

  • Read more: Endless, Excessive, and Inhumane: Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention
    Apr 12 2024
    Immigration

    Endless, Excessive, and Inhumane: Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention

    Legal scholars, immigrant rights advocates, and health professionals have been calling for the end of solitary confinement in immigration detention for more than a decade. But the use of this inhumane treatment has only increased. In a recently published report, researchers from Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and Physicians for Human Rights exposed the expansion…

  • Read more: Ending the Mass Incarceration of Persons of Color with Disabilities: Toward Intersectional Solutions to Transform Policing
    Apr 11 2024
    Disability

    Ending the Mass Incarceration of Persons of Color with Disabilities: Toward Intersectional Solutions to Transform Policing

    Recording

    Persons with disabilities (PWDs) across their lifespan face higher risk for arrest and incarceration due to extensively documented discriminatory law enforcement practices. According to research in the American Journal of Public Health, PWDs are 44% more likely to be arrested by age 28 than those without disabilities—a problem based in part on unfounded, ableist notions about PWDs’ propensity toward…

  • Read more: Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated
    Apr 9 2024
    Climate

    Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated

    Recording

    Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated was a critical examination of how climate change impacts people who are incarcerated. Many jails and prisons are inadequately equipped to handle extreme weather, exposing people who are confined within them to unique health vulnerabilities. This event highlighted how the effects of climate-related events on prisons…

  • Read more: When Youth Sue to Protect the Planet and their Health: Inside a Bold Legal Strategy to Fight Climate Change
    Apr 1 2024
    Climate

    When Youth Sue to Protect the Planet and their Health: Inside a Bold Legal Strategy to Fight Climate Change

    Last summer, 16 young plaintiffs won a pioneering lawsuit against the state of Montana. Their claim: By failing to consider the climate impact of fossil fuel projects, the state had violated children’s rights to a clean and healthful environment. The lawsuit is represented and supported by the public interest, nonprofit law firm Our Children’s Trust,…

  • Read more: Abortion and Jewish Law
    Apr 1 2024
    Reproductive Health

    Abortion and Jewish Law

    Recording

    In the wake of the Dobbs decision, Jewish plaintiffs in multiple U.S. states have brought religious liberty-based legal challenges to restrictive state-wide bans on abortion. Plaintiffs argue that these bans violate their religious rights as Jews because they are grounded in the belief that life begins at conception, a belief informed by a particular reading of…

  • Read more: A New Way Home: Medicaid & Reentry Symposium
    Apr 1 2024
    Medicare/Medicaid

    A New Way Home: Medicaid & Reentry Symposium

    Recording

    On April 1, 2024, from 9:00AM-6:00PM (EDT) the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) hosted A New Way Home: Medicaid and Reentry Symposium. State Medicaid programs have begun exploring new pathways to improve linkage and access to health care for people reentering the community from jails…

  • Read more: The Role of Courts in Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lessons from Latin America
    Mar 29 2024
    Global Health & Human Rights

    The Role of Courts in Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lessons from Latin America

    Recording

    Latin America has been at the forefront of judicialization of a right to a healthy environment. Courts in different countries have curbed burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the expansion of wind farms in Mexico; they have ordered the clean-up of river basins in Argentina and ordered the protection of important…