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. We are unable to make the Workshop public beyond the Harvard University Community. If you are a Harvard-affiliate and interested in enrolling or auditing this workshop, please reach out to Professor Cohen and his assistant, David LeBreton at dlebreton@law.harvard.edu.

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.

Daniel Goldberg
Director of Education, Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Director, CU Public Health Ethics & Law Program (“PHEAL”)
Associate Professor |Dept of Family Medicine (CU School of Medicine)
Associate Professor |Dept of Epidemiology (CO School of Public Health)
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
September 11, 2023
Presentation: “Legal Epidemiology As Anti-Stigma Methodology: Targeting Addiction Structural Stigma Embodied in Law”

Erin C. Fuse Brown
Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law
Director, Center for Law, Health & Society
Georgia State University College of Law
September 18, 2023
Presentation: “Private Equity and the Corporatization of Health Care”

Christopher Robertson
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, Boston University School of Law
Professor of Law, BU School of Law
Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management in the BU School of Public Health
Louise P. King, MD, JD
Assistant Professor Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director of Research, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Associate Program Director, Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Director of Reproductive Bioethics, Center for Bioethics
Co-Director, Ethics, Essentials of the Profession Harvard Medical School
Affiliated Faculty Petrie Flom Center Harvard Law School
September 25, 2023

Presentation: “How Discrimination Causes Gynecology Injuries and What the Law Can Do About It”

George Horvath
Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
October 2, 2023
Presentation: “Empirically Assessing 510(k) Device Innovation”

Nicholas Evans
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Massachusetts Lowell
October 10, 2023
Presentation: “Ethical and regulatory issues surrounding performance-enhancing interventions: therapies for the better-than-well?”

Ifeoma Ajunwa
AI.Humanity Professor of Law and Ethics
Director, AI and the Law Program
Emory University School of Law
October 16, 2023
Presentation: “Genetic Testing and Corporate Wellness Programs”

Allison Hoffman
Deputy Dean; Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
October 23, 2023
Presentation: “How Power Undermined the Medical Profession”

Thomas Williams
Assistant Professor of Law
American University, Washington College of Law
October 30, 2023

Presentation: “The Legitimacy and Integrity of Settlements as a Response to Health-Based Governmental Wrongdoing”

Katherine Kraschel
Assistant Professor of Law & Health Sciences
Northeastern University School of Law
November 6, 2023
Presentation: “Just Sperm: Regulating Gamete Provision After Dobbs”

Daniel Aaron
Associate Professor of Law
SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
November 13, 2023
Presentation: “Structural Privatization and Cancer”

Laura Hoffman
Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Health Law and Policy
Cleveland State University College of Law
November 20, 2023
Presentation: “Dismantling Disability’s True Poverty: The Threat of Assisted Suicide, Human
Trafficking, and a Shared Social Determinants of Health Failure”

Kristen Underhill
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
November 27, 2023

Presentation: “Unwanted Pregnancy and Postpartum Health Risks: Implications for Maternal Health after Dobbs“