Events by Academic Year: 2010-2011
The Globalization of Health Care: 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…
Racial Disparities in Health Care Delivery
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…
Is the Obama Health Care Reform Constitutional?
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.…
Female Circumcision: Ethics and Human Rights
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…
Health Law Workshop: Ernst Berndt
Presentation Ernst Berndt: Pricing and Reimbursement in US Pharmaceutical Markets This paper is not available for download.
Health Law Workshop: Adam Kolber
Presentation Download Adam Kolber's paper: The Experiential Future of the Law
Health Law Workshop: Rebecca Eisenberg
Presentation Rebecca Eisenberg: Patents and Regulatory Exclusivity This paper is not available for download.
Health Law Workshop: David Hyman
Presentation Download David Hyman's paper: Employment-Based Health Insurance: Is Health Reform a Game Changer?
Developments and Debates in New Legislation on Biologics
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…
Health Law Workshop: Nir Eyal
Presentation Nir Eyal: Deep exclusionary reasons: the case of luck egalitarianism and personal responsibility for health This paper is not available for download.
What (If Anything) Can the Mind Sciences and Evolutionary Biology Tell us about the Law and Morality
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…