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 pandemic for the Fall 2021 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.

James Toomey
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
Harvard Law School
September 8, 2021
Presentation: “A Narrative theory of Decision-Making”
Bill of Health article: “There’s More to Decision-Making Capacity than Cognitive Function”

Govind Persad
Assistant Professor
Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
September 15, 2021
Presentation: “Considering Vaccination Status”

Greer Donley
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Pittsburgh Law School
September 22, 2021
Presentation: “On Personhood”
Bill of Health article: “Pregnancy Loss, Abortion Rights, and a Holistic Reproductive Justice Movement”

Michael Stein
Co-founder and Executive Director and Visiting Professor of Law
Harvard Law School Project on Disability and Harvard Law School
September 29, 2021
Presentation: “A ‘Paradigm’ Shift in Mental Health Care”

Fazal Khan
Associate Professor of Law
University of Georgia School of Law
October 6, 2021
Presentation: “The Case for Federal Telehealth Licensure: What We Learned from the Pandemic”

Ana Rutschman
Assistant Professor
Center for Health Law Studies and Center for International and Comparative Law, Saint Louis University School of Law
American University Washington College of Law
October 13, 2021
Presentation: “Vaccines as Global Public Health Goods: Recalibrating Proprietary Frameworks for R&D”

Jorge Contreas
Professor
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
October 20, 2021
Presentation: “’In the Public Interest’: The Nine Points Document on University Technology Transfer”

Elizabeth McCuskey
Professor
University of Massachusetts School of Law at Dartmouth
October 27, 2021
Presentation: “ERISA Reform for Health Justice”

Doron Dorfman
Associate Professor of Law
Syracuse University College of Law
November 3, 2021
Presentation: “Penalizing Prevention”

Sonia Suter
The Kahan Family Research Professor of Law and Founding Director, Health Law Initiative
The George Washington University Law School
November 10, 2021
Presentation: “Challenging Eugenics from the Left and the Right”

Nita Farahany
Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Duke University School of Law
November 17, 2021
Presentation: “The Last Fortress: Brain Privacy”

Carleen Zubrzycki
Associate Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
December 1, 2021
Presentation: “Fiduciary Status and Professional Identity: Doctors and Beyond?”