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,…
Conference Description The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), titled “Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators” which proposes to substantially amend the Common Rule for the first time in twenty years. This development, as…
Legal and Ethical Challenges Conference Description The increasing globalization of health care and its inputs provides new challenges for health law and bioethics. This conference brought together leading scholars and policy-makers to discuss several overlapping and diverging instances of this globalization, to try and develop new strategies and paradigms to approach these issues. Comprised of…
