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Fall 2020

The Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world's leading experts. The workshop is led by Professor I. Glenn Cohen, and presenters come from a wide range of disciplines and departments. Harvard graduate students may register to take the workshop for course credit. In previous years we’ve been happy to open this Workshop to the public; however, with the switch to virtual learning for the Fall 2020 semester, we are unable to make the Workshop public beyond the Harvard University Community.

Even though the Workshop is not open to the public, we still want to share who is coming to speak. A full list can be found below. Be sure to keep an eye on our blog, Bill of Health, as we hope to share some of the Workshop content there.

Lindsay Wiley
Professor of Law and Director, Health Law and Policy Program
American University Washington College of Law
September 14, 2020
Presentation: "Democratizing the Law of Social Distancing"

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Associate Professor
Stanford Law School
September 21, 2020
Presentation: "Valuing the Vaccine," co-presented by Daniel J. Hemel

Mason Marks
Assistant Professor
Gonzaga University School of Law
2020-21 Edmond J. Safra/Petrie-Flom Center Fellow-in-Residence
September 28, 2020
Presentation: "Controlled Substance Regulation for the COVID-19 Mental Health Crisis"

Jennifer Oliva
Associate Professor
Seton Hall Law School
October 5, 2020
Presentation: “Dosing Discrimination: A Critical Analysis of PDMP Risk Scores”

Ruqaiijah Yearby
Professor of Law; Executive Director and Co-Founder
Institute for Healing Justice and Equity, Saint Louis University School of Law
October 13, 2020
Presentation: "Health Justice Strategies to Combat the Pandemic: Eliminating Discrimination, Poverty, and Health Disparities During and After COVID-19"

Mary Ziegler
Professor
Florida State University College of Law
October 19, 2020
Presentation: “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present”

Nathan Cortez
Professor of Law in Leadership and Latino Studies
SMU Dedman School of Law
October 26, 2020
Presentation: “The Artifices of Corporate Speech,” co-authored with William Sage

Wendy Netter Epstein
Professor of Law; Faculty Director
Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute, DePaul College of Law
November 2, 2020
Presentation: "Private Law Alternatives to the Individual Mandate"

Charlotte Tschider
Assistant Professor
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
November 9, 2020
Presentation: "AI's Legitimate Interest: Towards a Public Benefit Privacy Model"

Seema Mohapatra
Associate Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
November 16, 2020
Presentation: "Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions," co-authored with Lindsay Wiley

Valerie Gutmann Koch
Assistant Professor and Co-Director
Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center
November 23, 2020
Presentation: "Previvorship and the Legal Doctrine of Informed Consent"

Gabriel Scheffler
Associate Professor
University of Miami School of Law
November 30, 2020
Presentation: "Health Care Reform and Two Conceptions of the Right to Health Care"