Couldn’t attend in person? Check out posts from several of our speakers responding to the Supreme Court’s decision in the case, on the Health Affairs Blog. Links to published posts below! This Term, in King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court considered whether the Affordable Care Act permits the government to extend tax-credit subsidies to citizens…
Legal, Ethical, and Conceptual Issues Couldn’t join us? Watch the available talks and the full Q & A online! Trans and intersex individuals face a series of legal, medical, and social challenges. This panel engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of these overlapping issues, including: healthcare coverage of treatments such as gender reassignment therapy, the legal…
The Neuroscience of Addiction, Self-Control, and Criminal Responsibility Couldn’t join us? Watch the full event online! Do criminal penalties have any deterrent effect on drug addicts – people who already are willing to throw away their jobs, relationships, or even lives for their “fix”? What does brain science tell us about addicts’ capacities to exert…
Couldn’t join us? Watch the full event online! For more on this event, check out the write-ups in the Harvard Gazette (February 27, 2015) and the Harvard Crimson (February 26, 2015)! The measles outbreak centered around Disneyland in California in early 2015 reignited the contentious debate over childhood vaccination in the United States. This discussion…
with Stephen Morse Couldn’t join us? Watch the full event online! Professor Stephen J. Morse, JD, PhD, former MacArthur Foundation Law & Neuroscience Project, discussed how – or whether – new knowledge about the brain is changing legal concepts of agency and responsibility. Moderated by Petrie-Flom Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience Professor Amanda…
A lecture by John Tasioulas Couldn’t join us? Watch the full event online! There have been recent calls to establish a framework convention on health grounded in the human right to health. But is there really a human right to health? If there is, what does it entitle us to, and how do we decide?…
Couldn’t make it in person? Check out the individual sessions in the videos linked above and the collaborative blog series on the Health Affairs Blog (links below)! The Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium featured leading experts discussing major developments during 2014 and what to watch out for in 2015. The discussion at…
Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis Video of the lecture and following discussion is available online. What makes food “natural”? Do consumers understand “natural” claims on food labels? In the absence of robust federal guidelines, are state laws or class action lawsuits appropriate mechanisms for addressing false or misleading “natural” claims?…
A lecture by Peter Hutt Video of the lecture and following discussion are available online. The recent outbreak of Ebola has called attention to the substantial difficulties associated with developing and testing new products for time-sensitive epidemics. What are the legal, ethical, and economic barriers to getting essential treatments and preventative measures from the lab…
I. Glenn Cohen‘s new book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014) is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of medical tourism. Examining both the legal and ethical issues raised by medical tourism and how the two interact, it provides the best currently available data and explanations of the…
