Past Events

Presentation Katherine Baiker: The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

Mark A. Hall’s paper: Commerce Clause Challenges to Health Care Reform

Richard Epstein: The Constitutional Protection of Trade Secrets and Patents under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009

Presentation Tom Baker: Incorporating Insights of Judgment & Decision Making and Behavioral Economics into the Design of the Health Exchanges

Continuing our investigation of health care reform, we hosted a jointly-run event with Vanderbilt University Law School and our colleague James Blumstein, University Professor of Constitutional Law and Health Law & Policy addressing constitutional issues related to the expanded Medicaid component of the Affordable Care Act and whether the changes violate notions of cooperative federalism.

This Federal Judicial Center (FJC) workshop focused on facilitating offender re-entry to reduce recidivism, a major priority for Attorney General Eric Holder in his review of federal sentencing and corrections policy, as well as for the multitude of jurisdictions facing unsustainable prison populations alongside dwindling corrections budgets. Speakers at the conference sought to translate the…

Legal and Ethical Challenges Conference Description The increasing globalization of health care and its inputs provides new challenges for health law and bioethics. This conference brought together leading scholars and policy-makers to discuss several overlapping and diverging instances of this globalization, to try and develop new strategies and paradigms to approach these issues. Comprised of…

Forty years after the end of the Jim Crow era and the passage of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, there remain large racial disparities in the American healthcare system. This panel explored the strengths and weaknesses of various policies that may be employed to alleviate ongoing racial health disparities. Such policies include those…

America’s most significant health care reform initiative in over 50 years, and the centerpiece of President Obama’s domestic policy agenda, has been challenged in federal courts across the country. At the date of this panel, two district courts had pronounced the measure (at least in part) unconstitutional focusing on its individual mandate, while two courts…

The practice of FGM has been at the center of health and human rights debates for decades. Public health, women’s rights and child rights advocates, governments and health professional associations–in Africa, Asia, Europe and the US– have taken positions running the gamut from abolition to harm reduction. In April 2010, the American Association of Pediatrics…