Health Law

Sample of Recent Health Law Events

ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project attorney,"Reproductive Rights and the New Supreme Court," sponsored by Penn Law for Choice, March 24, 2006.

Glenn Cohen, J.D. United States Department of Justice, "Negotiating Death: ADR and End of Life Decision-making," sponsored by Penn Law and the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, March 17, 2006.

Clinical Trials in The Third World Symposium, sponsored by Bioethics, Law and Public Policy Society, February 2, 2006.

Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice, and Research, "Kids in Care: Where we are, Where We Need to Go," November 17, 2005.

Dr. Jill Barren of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, "End of Life Decision Making and Policy," November 16, 2005.

David Sontag, Dechert, LLP, "Will Oregon's Death with Dignity Act Stand?" sponsored by Bioethics, Law and Public Policy Society, October 19, 2005.

The Supreme Court and the Future of Reproductive Rights, Penn Law for Choice, September 7, 2005.

Panel Discussion on Terry Schiavo, sponsored by Bioethics, Law and Public Policy Society, March 29, 2005.

Edward V. Sparer Symposium, "Drug Policy Refort: In the Courts and in the Streets," sponsored by the Public Service Program, March 19, 2005.

Health Law Moot Court Competition, March 1, 2005.

Michael Druckman, Former Legal Counsel for the FDA, discussing recent public health issues, sponsored by the Bioethics, Law and Public Policy Society, March 1 & 2, 2005.

Professor Stephen Morse, To Sleep, Perchance to Kill: Altered Consciousness and Responsibility, Penn Humanities Forum, February 9, 2005.

Bioethics Law and Public Policy Society/Health Law Society Career Panel, November 16, 2004.

"Mediation of Health Care Disputes: A Process Whose Time Has Come?" sponsored by Penn Medical School and Penn Law, May 11, 2004.

William H. Colby, author of The Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan
March 27, 2003

"The Legacy of Roe: The Constitution, Reproductive Rights, and Feminism"
Constitutional Law Symposium (open to faculty and students)
Sponsored by the Journal of Constitutional Law February 7, 2003

"Patents, Human Rights, and The Human Genome"
Justice Michael Kirby (Australian High Court Justice)
September 25, 2002