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The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

Now Accepting Applications for Student Fellows

 

Applications are due Monday, May 20.  The full call for applications can be viewed here.

 

Fellowships are open to all Harvard graduate students.

 

Call for Applications: Student Internship Program

 

Please see the full call here. Applications due no later than May 31, 2013.

 

All Harvard undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply.

 

Cohen promoted to professor of law at Harvard

 

Following a vote of the Harvard Law School faculty, I. Glenn Cohen, a leading expert on the intersection of health care, bioethics and the law, will be promoted from assistant professor to tenured professor of law, effective July 1. Cohen has served as an assistant professor since 2008, and as co-director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics since 2009. See the full announcement from HLS or read more about Professor Cohen's promotion in the Harvard Crimson.

 

The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues – Now Available from OUP

 

The edited volume stemming from the Petrie-Flom Center's 2011 Annual Conference – The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, I. Glenn Cohen, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2013) – is now available for purchase through the publisherAmazon, or other outlets.  You can also download the introduction and front matter for free here.

 

Petrie-Flom Center to Work with Harvard Medical School and the National Football League Players Association

 

Read more from Harvard Law School here.

 

New Video Available

 

See the video from our recent events on Personalized Medicine Patenting, and Professor Charles Fried's lecture on Evidence as a Public Good on our Webcasts page.

 

News and Scholarship

 

Why is medical tourism from Australia booming?

Quoting I. Glenn Cohen

World News Australia, April 23, 2013

 

Smokers cloud states’ rollout of ‘Obamacare’

Quoting Holly Fernandez Lynch

The Washington Times, April 22, 2013

 

Of Modest Proposals and Non-Identity: A Comment on the Right to Know Your Genetic Parents

by I. Glenn Cohen

The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 13, Issue 5, 2013

 

Making Residency Work Hour Rules Work

by I. Glenn Cohen, Charles A. Czeisler, and Christopher P. Landrigan

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2013

 

Ontario judge gives green light to Yasmin, Yaz class action lawsuit

Quoting I. Glenn Cohen

Global News, April 18, 2013

 

Cohen amicus brief discussed before Supreme Court

Supreme Court Transcript, April 15, 2013

 

Made-to-Order Embryos Create New Legal Issues

Quoting I. Glenn Cohen

LiveScience, April 11, 2013

 

Gene patents in the dock

Quoting W. Nicholson Price

Nature, April 10, 2013

 

Doctors, patients scramble following birth control recall

Quoting I. Glenn Cohen

Global News, April 9, 2013

 

Cohen files amicus brief in gene patent case before the Supreme Court

Harvard Law School, March 28, 2013

 

Religious Liberty, Conscience, and the Affordable Care Act

by Holly Fernandez Lynch

Ethical Perspectives, Volume 20, Issue 1 (March 2013)

 

Conscientious Objection, Coercion, the Affordable Care Act, and US States

by I. Glenn Cohen

Ethical Perspectives, Volume 20, Issue 1 (March 2013), pp. 163-186


Protecting Human Research Subjects as Human Research Workers

by Holly Fernandez Lynch

Forthcoming in The Future of Human Subjects Research Regulation (I. Glenn Cohen & Holly Fernandez Lynch, eds., MIT Press 2014)


Corporation rights drive divergent rulings on contraception

Quoting I. Glenn Cohen

The Washington Times, March 25, 2013

 

It Is Time for the U.S. to Cover IVF (for Gay and Lesbians Too)

by Dov Fox and I. Glenn Cohen

HuffPost Politics, March 18, 2013

 

Legal Implications of an Ethical Duty to Search for Genetic Incidental Findings

by W. Nicholson Price

The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 13, Issue 2, 2013


Petrie-Flom Center (PFC) — A Harvard center dedicated to interdisciplinary research and debate of cutting-edge issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.

Health Law Policy Workshop

Please check back in the Fall 2013 semester for next years Workshop schedule!

Petrie-Flom Events

Please refer to our events webpage for further details.

Annual Conference:
Register now! The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century

May 3-4, 2013
Harvard Law School

 

The full conference agenda and registration information are now available here. We hope you'll join us for what promises to be a great event.

 

Issues and Case Studies in Clinical Trial Data Sharing – Lessons and Solutions

May 17, 2013; 7:30-5:00PM
Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the Multi-Regional Clinical Trial Center and the Petrie-Flom Center

 

Please see the conference page for agenda and registration information, or contact
mrct@harvard.edu with any questions.

 

Other Events at Harvard

Models of the Mind: How Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Law Collide

April 25, 2013

Joseph Martin Amphitheater
77 Ave. Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA

RSVP required, registration free.

 

The Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School often has public programs likely to be of interest.  More information is available here

 

The Healthcare Initiative at Harvard Business School also hosts a number of relevant events.  For details, see here

 

Opportunities Around Harvard

June 12-14, 2013

Harvard Clinical Bioethics Course

Harvard Medical School