This panel focused on how patent law affects various industries differently. The pharmaceutical and high-tech industries offer perhaps the most vivid examples of this divergence. Panelists discussed whether patent law currently is or should be technology specific, and also explored questions concerning which institutional actor would be in the best position to craft substantive patent…
What, (if anything), Can the Mind Sciences Teach Us about Law and Morality? Conference Description In the “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis,” Sigmund Freud famously suggested that humanity would suffer three great blows at the hand of science: “The first was when they learnt that our earth was not the center of the universe but only…
This panel discussion examined how developments in evolutionary biology and the mind sciences should inform law, philosophy, and economics, and focused on subjects such as punishment, responsibility, racism, addiction, and cooperation. Participants included I. Glenn Cohen, Joshua Greene, William Fitzpatrick, Adina Roskies, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Thomas Scanlon
In previous years, the regulation of stem cell research has been a politically controversial topic. However the change from the Bush to the Obama administration presented potentially substantial changes in the regulatory environment for stem cell research, with far reaching implications for the important though controversial technology. Petrie-Flom convened a group of leading scholars and…
Presentation Download Sadath Sayeed‘s paper: The Problem of Non-identity in Valuing Newborn Human Life
a Film Screening and Discussion The Petrie-Flom Center partnered with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability to screen selected portions of the PBS documentary film Through Deaf Eyes which explores the nearly 200 year history and culture of deaf communities in America. The film presented the shared experiences of American history – family life,…
Presentation Download Sadath Sayeed‘s paper: Impact of Ethics and Economics on End-of-Life Decisions in an Indian Neonatal Unit
Presentation Download Elizabeth Warren‘s paper: Medical Bankruptcy in the United States
Presentation Download Colleen Flood‘s paper: A Comparison of European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and Regulation of the Public/Private Divide in Health Care
Presentation Download Hank Greely‘s paper: Human/Non-Human Chimeras: Assessing the Issues
