The 2019 American Journal of Law and Medicine Symposium
The Crisis of Democracy in Healthcare: Non-legislative Efforts to Change Health Law
Friday, January 25, 2019
Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue
9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Democracy has been consistently considered the best form of government for allowing citizens’ voices to be heard. However, this is not always true in practice. Recent events in the United States have created climates in which many voters are dissatisfied not only with election outcomes but with the policy choices that followed, with particular regard to health care policy. In response, the upcoming American Journal of Law and Medicine volumes will entertain the theme of crisis of democracy in healthcare, in conjunction with the January symposium.
The January 2019 American Journal of Law and Medicine symposium The Crisis of Democracy in Healthcare: Non-legislative Efforts to Change Health Law will take place at Boston University Law School on Friday, January 25, 2019. The symposium will examine unique perspectives on the crisis of democracy along with topics of comparative health law, regulatory matters, election challenges, and public opinion studies’ impact on public health and health law.
Symposium panelists selected from the call for papers will discuss the crisis of democracy in healthcare with reference to four specific areas: executive and administrative law, judicial action, public opinion research, and federalism. Panelists will represent a diverse pool of academic perspectives, including public health, medicine, economics, bioethics, history and anthropology.
Keynote Address:
Scott Burris – Temple University Beasley School of Law
Conference Presenters and Panelists:
Michele Bratcher Goodwin – University of California, Irvine School of Law
Sallie Thieme Sanford – University of Washington School of Law
Michael Ulrich – Boston University School of Public Health
Hon L. Ho – Harvard Medical School
Theodosia Stravroulaki – University of Michigan Law School
Myrisha Lewis – Howard University School of Law
John Koncelik – Fawcett Memorial Hospital
Nicole Huberfeld – Boston University School of Public Health and School of Law
Sidney D. Watson – Saint Louis University School of Law
Cara Stewart – Kentucky Equal Justice Center
Wendy E. Parmet – Northeastern University School of Law
Moderators:
Kevin Outterson – Boston University School of Law; Symposium Chair, the American Journal of Law & Medicine
Ted Hutchinson – Executive Director, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics; Editor, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Organizers:
Nia Johnson – Editor-in-Chief, Boston University School of Law
Olivia King – Symposium Editor, Boston University School of Law
Anna Kozlowski – Symposium Editor, Boston University School of Law
Schedule of Events
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