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

Past Workshop Presentations

Jennifer Arlen

Contracing Over Malpractice Liability

Nick Bagley

Physician Bureaucrats: Why Medicare Reform Hasn't Worked

Katherine Baiker

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

Tom Baker

Incorporating Insights of Judgement & Decision Making and Behavioral Economics into the Design of the Health Exchanges

Ernst Berndt

Pricing and Reimbursement in US Pharmaceutical Markets

Dan Brock

Ethical Issues in Applying Quantitative Models for Setting Priorities in Prevention

Allen Buchanan

Enhancement and the Ethics of Development

Dan Carpenter

Statutory Deadlines, Regulatory Review Cycles, and Postmarketing Drug Experience

Amitabh Chandra

Geography and Racial Health Disparities 

Outcomes Assessment and Health Care Reform

Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare

Michael Chernew

The Financial Effects of a Value Based Insurance Design Program

I. Glenn Cohen

Transplant Tourism: The Ethics and Regulation of International Markets for Organs

David Cutler

The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology

Norman Daniels

How Can We Meet Needs Fairly When We Can’t Meet Them All?  Accountability for Reasonableness in Resource Allocation

Joseph Doyle

Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

Rebecca Eisenberg

Patents and Regulatory Exclusivity

Einer Elhauge

Reingineering Humans - What Limits?

Solving the Patent Settlement Puzzle (with Alex Kruger)

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Evaluating the Principles for Allocating Scarce Medical Interventions

Richard Epstein

The Constitutional Protection of Trade Secrets and Patents under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009

Nir Eyal

Deep exclusionary reasons: the case of luck egalitarianism and personal responsibility for health

Nita Farahany

Neuroscience and Criminal Law

Terry Fisher

Developing Drugs for Developing Countries:  Some Pieces of the Puzzle

Colleen Flood

Is Canada Odd? A Comparison of European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and Regulation of the Public/Private Divide in Health Care

Alison Galvani

Long-standing influenza vaccination policy is in accord with individual self-interest but not with the utilitarian optimum

Michele Goodwin

Fetal Protection Laws: Moral Panic & The New Constitutional Battlefront

Henry Grabowski

Priority Review Vouchers to Encourage Innovation for Neglected Diseases

Hank Greely

Human/Non-Human Chimeras: Assessing the Issues

Mark A. Hall

Patients as Consumers: Courts, Contracts, and the New Medical Marketplace

Commerce Clause Challenges to Health Care Reform

C. Scott Hemphill

An Aggregate Approach to Antitrust: Using New Data and Rulemaking to Preserve Drug Competition

Allison Hoffman

Reconceptualizing the Risk of Long-Term Care

David Hyman

Employment-Based Health Insurance: Is Health Reform a Game Changer?

Frances Kamm

What is and is not working with Enhancement

Daniel Kessler

Detecting Medicare Abuse

Adam Kolber

The Experiential Future of the Law

Jon Kolstad

Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

 

Russell Korobkin

Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology

Darius Lakdawalla

The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice

Adriana Lleras-Muney

Understanding Differences in Health Behaviors by Education

Anup Malani

Clinical Trials, the Market for Observations and the Cost of Medical R&D

Regulation with Placebo Effects

Theodore Marmor

Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care

Jeff McMahan

Radical Cognitive Limitation

Max Mehlman

Enhanced Warfighters: A Policy Framework

Frank Pasquale

From Transparency to Intelligibility: Rethinking Disclosure in Health and Finance Reform

Nicholson Price

Making Do in Making Drugs: Innovation Policy and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Arti Rai

Patentability Policy Across the Executive Branch: What the DNA Patent Controversies Teach about Insitutional Choice

Al Roth & Judd Kessler

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

Christopher Robertson

The Split Benefit: The Painless Way to Put Skin Back in the Healthcare Game

Benjamin Roin

Why Drug Patents are So Effective

Theodore Ruger

Health Law's Coherence Anxiety

The Thompsonian Movement and the Structures of American Health Law

William Sage

Relational Duties, Regulatory Duties, and the Widening Gap Between Individual Health Law and Collective Health Policy

Competition Policy and Emerging Health Care Markets

Sadath Sayeed

Impact of Ethics and Economics on End-of-Life Decisions in an Indian Neonatal Unit

The Problem of Non-identity in Valuing Newborn Human Life

F. M. Scherer

Markets and Uncertainty in Pharmaceutical Development

Mark Schlesinger

Bounded Rationality and the Conceptual Underpinnings of Health Policy: A Rationale and Roadmap for Addressing the Challenges of Choice in Medical Settings

Paul Starr

Law and the Fog of Health Care: Complexity and Uncertainty in the Struggle over Health Policy

Elizabeth Warren

Medical Bankruptcy in the United States

Alan Wertheimer

Why is Consent a Requirement for Ethical Research?

Susan Wolf

Managing Incidental Findings in Human Subjects Research: Analysis and Reccomendations

Kathryn Zeiler

Empirical Health Law Scholarship: The State of the Field

 

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Attendance at the Health Policy Workshop is open to the Harvard community and to Greater Boston academics and practitioners.