The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Food Law and Policy Clinic (a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation); the Food Law Lab; and the Harvard Food Law Society; with support from the Top University Strategic Alliance and the Dean’s Office at Harvard Law School….
Couldn’t attend in person? Learn more about the event: At our second Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the New England Journal of Medicine welcomed experts discussing major developments during 2013 and what to watch out for in areas…
Could Rating Help? Imagine a rating or accreditation system for companies’ “global health footprint.” Such a system would rigorously assess companies’ overall impact on human health, including the health of the world’s poorest and sickest populations, then disseminate this information in ways that users could readily understand and act upon. If successful, such a system…
This discussion of selected topics in the field of international reproductive rights addressed a range of issues. Expert panelists were: Co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics; the Human Rights Program; and the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School; and the Harvard Global Health Institute.
Book Talk and Discussion by Editor I. Glenn Cohen I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center and Professor at Harvard Law School, discussed his new edited volume The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, published by Oxford University Press in March 2013. The book ties together the manifestation of health care…
We don’t stand for doctors discriminating against patients on the basis of race, but what about when the tables are turned? At this event, Kimani Paul-Emile of Fordham Law School led a discussion of her new article in the UCLA Law Review, Patients’ Racial Preferences and the Medical Culture of Accommodation. Renee Landers of Suffolk…
What Have We Learned? Objectives: Please see the conference page for further information. A final agenda, featuring keynote speakers Dr. Jeff Drazen (NEJM) and Dr. Albert J. “AJ” Allen (Lilly) as well as regulators from US, EMA, Canada, Japan, Russia and other countries, may be viewed here. Download the final conference report. Co-sponsored by the…
The 2013 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference Conference Description The Food and Drug Administration, the US government’s oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency, bears the monumental task of safeguarding the public health through regulation of food, drugs and biologics, devices, cosmetics, animal products, radiation-emitting products, and now, tobacco. The agency faces a number of perennial issues related…
Putting the Label on the Table The Harvard Law School Food Law Society‘s second annual conference was a part of the Society’s mission to foster dialogue and exchange knowledge of emerging issues in food policy and regulation. The conference explored the legal and policy aspects of food labeling and its effects on consumer knowledge, choice,…
Conference Overview Following the turn of the twenty-first century and the burst of the “IT Bubble,” we have seen the collapse of large publicly traded firms like Enron and WorldCom, as well as their auditing firm, Arthur D. Anderson. Soon after, in 2008, the financial crash led to the collapse of Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch,…
