Renee Landers Interviewed By NECN

Renee spoke about CVS’s new policy requiring workers who get their health insurance from the company to report their weight, body fat, and glucose levels to the insurer or pay a $600 penalty.  To watch the full interview, go here.

Topics: Faculty in the News; Health Law

Call for Papers: The Petrie-Flom Center

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is seeking paper submissions for their annual conference, “The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century,” to be held on May 3-4, 2013 at Harvard Law School.

Interested participants should send an abstract of the paper to petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu by Monday, December 10, 2012.  For more information please contact Holly Fernandez Lynch at hlynch@law.harvard.edu, 617-384-5475 or go here.

Topics: Calls for Papers; Conferences and Symposia; Health Law

Conference: Writing the Master Narrative for U.S. Health Policy

Brooklyn Law School is hosting a Symposium on “Writing the Master Narrative for U.S. Health Policy” on September 28, 2012 from 9:00am – 1:00pm.  The event will be held at the Subotnick Center, 10th Floor, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn.

RSVP online by September 26, 2012.  For more information, go here.

Topics: Conferences and Symposia, Health Law

Call for Papers: Posthumous Reproduction

The Journal of Law and Health at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is now accepting submissions for its annual symposium on the topic of “The Legal and Ethical Implications of Posthumous Reproduction.”

Deadline for submission is October 1, 2012. 600 word abstracts may be submitted to health.journal@law.csuohio.edu, with “Submission: Annual Symposium” in the subject line.

For more information on the Journal of Law and Health, go here.

Topics: Call for Papers, Family Law, Health Law

Call for Papers: Race and Social Problems

The University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work is accepting submissions for its Race and Social Problems journal. General Call for Papers are accepted on a rolling basis and information can be found here.

Submissions for their first 2013 issue on Race and Health should be submitted here and more information can be found here.

Topics: Calls for Papers, Health Law, Race and the Law

Harvard’s New Health Law Blog

Bill of Health is a new blog from Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center.  The goal of the blog is to provide a one-stop shop for readers interested in news, commentary, and scholarship in the fields of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics. For more details go here and here.

Topics: Health Law

Renee Landers’ Commentary on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Affordable Care decision published in the New England Journal of Medicine

To read Renee’s commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine go here.  For more details go here.

Topics: Faculty in the News; Health Law; Constitutional Law

Health Law Stands — Opinion Now Available

Read the full opinion here.  For more details go here.

Topics: Health Law; Constitutional Law

Symposium: Reforming Child Protection Law: A Public Health Approach

The Center for Health, Science, and Public Policy and the Journal of Law and Policy at Brooklyn Law School are co-sponsoring the “Reforming Child Protection Law: A Public Health Approach” symposium.  The event will be held on Friday, April 13, 2012 from 9:00am – 3:30pm.

Registration is available online.  For more information, go here.

Topics: Conferences and Symposia; Family Law; Health Law

Call for Papers: Honoring Patients’ Treatment Choices at the End of Life: New Tools, New Challenges, New Limits

The Health Institute at Hamline University and the Hamline Law Review seek proposals for presentations and papers for its fall CLE/CEU Symposium on Friday, November 9, 2012.  Anyone interested in speaking at the Symposium and/or publishing in the Hamline Law Review’s Symposium issue should submit both a CV and an abstract to healthlawsym2012@hamline.edu by March 30, 2012.

For questions, please contact  Hamline Health Law Institute Director and Law Professor Thaddeus Pope at tpope01@hamline.edu.  For more information, go here.

Topics: Calls for Papers; Elder Law; Health Law