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…
Presentation Ernst Berndt: Pricing and Reimbursement in US Pharmaceutical Markets This paper is not available for download.
Presentation Download Adam Kolber‘s paper: The Experiential Future of the Law
Presentation Rebecca Eisenberg: Patents and Regulatory Exclusivity This paper is not available for download.
Presentation Download David Hyman‘s paper: Employment-Based Health Insurance: Is Health Reform a Game Changer?
Peter Barton Hutt, Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling, LLP and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and Bruce A. Leicher, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Momenta Pharmaceuticals discussed and debated emerging issues related to this topic
Presentation Nir Eyal: Deep exclusionary reasons: the case of luck egalitarianism and personal responsibility for health This paper is not available for download.
