Past Events

Presentation Employment-Based Health Insurance: Is Health Reform a Game Changer? David Hyman

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 Deep exclusionary reasons: the case of luck egalitarianism and personal responsibility for health Nir Eyal

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…

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 a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of scarcely imaginable vastness. This is associated in…

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. Panelists

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 The Problem of Non-identity in Valuing Newborn Human Life Sadath Sayeed

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, education, work, and community connections…

Presentation Impact of Ethics and Economics on End-of-Life Decisions in an Indian Neonatal Unit Sadath Sayeed