Events and conferences at the cutting edge of health law and policy are held every month of the academic year, including a series of events focused on domestic health policy and health care issues, driven in part by the passions of interested students.
All 2023–2024 Events
- September 12 | Gun Violence, Domestic Violence, and the Supreme Court: Twin Threats before the Court in United States v. Rahimi1, A panel discussion featuring Jesenia Pizarro, Eric Tirschwell, Dean Megan Ranney, Michael Ulrich
- September 20 | A year after the fall of Roe: Views from the frontlines of federal policy, medical practice, and law2 A panel discussion featuring Dr. Lisa Harris, Diana Kasdan, Jennifer Klein, Reva Siegel ’86
- October 10 | Disability Rights, Health Care, and Incarceration3, A panel discussion featuring Pardiss Kebriaei, Lisa Puglisi, and Margo Schlanger
- October 11 | From the Mifepristone case to the ACA and defending Chevron: The HHS General Counsel on Major Cases in the Courts4, a conversation about cases on matters ranging from deference to scientific expertise, to reproductive rights, ACA, and administrative law moving through the courts with Sam Bagenstos, the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- October 16 | Confronting the Drug Pricing Crisis through Patent Reform,5 a panel discussion featuring Tahir Amin, Robin Feldman, Amy Kapczynski '03, and Zain Rizvi ’17
- October 21 | Health Law Alumni Breakfast6
- October 25 | Wonder Drug: A book talk on the history of Thalidomide with Jennifer Vanderbes, TD ’96.7
- November 7 | 1L Summer Jobs in Health Law8, a panel event co-sponsored with the YLS Career Development Office (CDO) featuring Hannah Eichner '24, Bea Brown '25, Sahil Agrawal '25, Elliot Ping '24, and Elena Sokoloski '25
- November 8 | Generative AI and Medical Advice9, a talk featuring Claudia E. Haupt
- November 16 | The Transformative Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Healthcare and Legal Practice10, a panel event featuring Lane Dilg '04, Harlan Krumholz, David Rhew, and Laura Safdie ’11
- January 30 | Loper and Chevron in the Court: The Fate of Deference to Administrative and Scientific Expertise11, a panel event featuring Jonathan Adler, Blake Emerson ’17, Andrew Pincus, Reshma Ramachandran
- February 5 | COVID-19 and The Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy12, a panel discussion featuring I. Glenn Cohen, Abbe Gluck ’00, Ashish Jha, and Kimberly Mutcherson
- February 7 | Organ Allocation Reform: Equity, Transparency, Governance13, a panel discussion featuring Lavarne Burton, Richard Formica, Alexandra Glazer, Renee Landers, and David Mulligan
- February 12 | Patient-Assistance Programs, Kickbacks, and the Court14, a panel discussion featuring Doug Hallward-Dreimier, Fiona Scott Morton, William Sarraille, and Gregg Shapiro
- February 16 | Innovating Elder Justice: Law, Medicine, and Technology to Address Abuse and Financial Exploitation in Today’s Aging Society15, a symposium featuring a keynote conversation with Senator Richard Blumenthal and two panels with experts in law and medicine
- March 11 | Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten16, a book talk featuring Lindsay F. Wiley, Kelly Gillespie and Danielle Pelfrey Duryea
- March 14 | Disability on the Docket17, a discussion with Karen Tani and Jasmine Harris
- April 1 | Health Law and Policy Career Night18, a panel event featuring Matthew All, Sarah Esty, Rose Carmen Goldberg, and Julian Polaris
- April 10 | What's at Stake: LGBTQ+ Health, Law, and Healthcare19, a panel discussion with Jesse Ehrenfeld, Ali Curd, Gilbert Gonzales, and Zee Scout
- April 15 | Government Purchasing of Medicines for the Public Health: The Cases of HCV and PrEP20, a panel discussion featuring Rena Conti, Aaron Kesselheim, Amy Killelea, and Joshua Sharfstein
- April 17 | Students Trained to Respond to Overdoses21, an opioid response training led by Carson Ferrara YSPH ’25 and David Han YSM ’27