2013 has seen many milestones towards improving access to biomedical research. In February, President Obama issued an Executive Order requiring most federal research agencies to implement public access policies; official guidance in this respect is expected from the Office of Science and Technology Policy early next year. This spring, the NIH began implementing the enhanced…
Presentation Topic: “Reverse Transplant Tourism” About the Presenter Kimberly D. Krawiec is the Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor at the Duke University School of Law. She is an expert on corporate law who teaches courses on securities, corporate, and derivatives law. Her research interests span a variety of fields, including the empirical analysis of contract disputes,…
Presentation Download the paper: Bernard Black, Jose Espin-Sanchez, Eric French, and Kate Litvak, The Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Mortality (working paper 2013). About the Presenter Bernard S. Black is the Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and Kellogg School of Management and Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of…
I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center and Professor at Harvard Law School, discussed his new edited volume The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, published by Oxford University Press in March 2013. The book ties together the manifestation of health care globalization in four related subject areas — medical tourism,…
Come learn more about what the Petrie-Flom Center does and how you can get involved at this gathering for faculty, colleagues, and students with shared interests in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.
Moderated by Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School, this panel will focus on the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Myriad case that naturally occurring DNA cannot be patented. Will this be a boon for patients and a burden for biotech companies? Will sufficient incentive remain for innovation? Will there be…
We don’t stand for doctors discriminating against patients on the basis of race, but what about when the tables are turned? At this event, Kimani Paul-Emile of Fordham Law School led a discussion of her new article in the UCLA Law Review, Patients’ Racial Preferences and the Medical Culture of Accommodation. Renee Landers of Suffolk…
A lecture by V. Lakshmikumaran. Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran is the founder and managing partner of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (L&S). L&S is one of India’s elite law firms, serving several Fortune 500 and top Indian companies in international trade, tax, intellectual property, and corporate matters. Chambers Asia Pacific recently declared several L&S’s practices to be in the top-tier…
About the Presenter Dov Fox joined the University of San Diego School of Law faculty in 2013, specializing in health law, medical ethics, reproductive genetics and stem cell research. A former summer fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center, he is welcomed back to Harvard Law School after most recently receiving an LLM degree as an academic…
‘deepsouth’ is a documentary about the rural American South, and the people who inhabit its most quiet corners. Beneath layers of history, poverty and now soaring HIV infections, four Americans redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive.” Cosponsored by the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation.
