Fall 2007
Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Workshop

Sept 6 – Bill Sage, Vice Provost for Health Affairs; James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law; Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, “Relational Duties, Regulatory Duties, and the Widening Gap Between Individual Health Law and Collective Health Policy”

Sept 13 – Amitabh Chandra, Assistant Professor, Public Policy, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, "Outcomes Assessment and Health Care Reform"

Sept 20 – David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics; Dean for the Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, "The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology"

Sept 27 – Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of Public Policy Studies & Philosophy, Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, "Enhancement and the Ethics of Development"

Oct 4 – Kathy Zeiler, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, "Empirical Health Law Scholarship: The State of the Field"

Oct 11 – Ted Ruger, Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, "Health Law's Coherence Anxiety"

Oct 18 – Dan Wikler, Professor of Ethics & Population Health; Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics, Harvard School of Public Health, "Research Ethics: Wrong Turn After Nuremburg? "

Nov 1 – David Hyman, Professor; Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Estimating The Effect of Damage Caps In Medical Malpractice Cases: Evidence from Texas"

Nov 8 – Frances Kamm, Senior Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School; Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; Professor of Philosophy, Harvard Philosophy Department, "Enhancement"

Nov 15 –Mark A. Hall, Professor of Law and Public Health, Wake Forest University School of Law, "Patients as Consumers: Courts, Contracts, and the New Medical Marketplace ”

Nov 29 – Jennifer Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, "Contracing Over Malpractice Liability"

Dec 6 – Russell Korobkin, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, and Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law"Stem Cell Patent Policy"

The Petrie-Flom Center is built around a community of scholars from Harvard and beyond who are dedicated to the development, debate and dissemination of leading edge research in the fields of health law, policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.