Health Law Celebration
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Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall
Thursday, October 24th 12:30 – 4:30pm
Friday, October 25th 9:30am – 4:30pm
The nation’s health law academic community and alumni, faculty, and friends of Boston University School of Law and School of Public Health will come together on October 24th and 25th, 2024 to celebrate more than half a century of health law as a discrete field of academic focus. Events will include reflections on the history and future of the field of Health Law by scholars from all over the country. We will also commemorate the leadership and contributions of key scholars of our Health Law Program, George Annas, Wendy Mariner, and Fran Miller.
The program will feature our annual Pike Lecture, given this year by Chai Feldblum, civil and disability rights advocate and former EEOC commissioner.
If you are interested in viewing the Health Law Celebration Virtually, please register and the link will be sent to you.
We have secured a negotiated rate at Hotel Commonwealth. To take advantage of the room rate, please book your room by Friday, October 4th. To book your room, please use this link or call 617-532-5019 and mention “BU Health Law Celebration” as your group when booking.
If you are interested in extending your stay at the Hotel Commonwealth, please call the reservation team at 617-532-5019 and they can assist you with the best possible negotiated rate. Please note that these dates are likely to sell out, so please do not delay making arrangements.
If your firm or company is interested in serving as a sponsor of the program, please reach out to Elizabeth Ryan-Catalano at elizrc@bu.edu.
Boston University School of Law strives to be accessible, inclusive and diverse in our facilities, programming and academic offerings. Your experience in this event is important to us. If you have a disability (including but not limited to learning or attention, mental health, concussion, vision, mobility, hearing, physical or other health related), require communication access services for the deaf or hard of hearing, or believe that you require a reasonable accommodation for another reason, please contact lawevent@bu.edu to discuss your needs. Please note, that the office of Disability Services typically requires 10 business days notice for services.
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Breakfast will be provided on Thursday. We invite you to explore Boston’s excellent restaurants on Thursday evening. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided on Friday.
Participants and attendees are responsible for their own travel and lodging expenses. There are several great hotels close to BU.
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Agenda
Thursday, October 24, 2024
12:30pm - Lunch, Barrister’s Hall
2:00-4:30pm - Health Law Origin Stories, Barrister’s Hall
- George Annas, Boston University – Seven Decades Observing Transplantation Rituals from Boston University’s Center for Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights
- Sondra Crosby, Boston University – How Torture Became Part of Health Law
- Heidi Kummer, Patient Advocate Certification Board – The Patients Rights Advocate: From Concept to Reality - The Birth of Patient and Health Care Advocacy
- Wendy Parmet, Northeastern University School of Law – The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Public Health Law
- Frances Miller, Boston University – Just Fix the Damn Payment System
- William Sage, Texas A&M University – Money, Solidarity, and a Half a Century of Health Reform
- Barry Furrow, Drexel Law – The Destructive Evolution of Health Care Privatization
Friday, October 25, 2024
8:30am - Breakfast, Barrister’s Hall
9:30am-11:45am - Health Law – Alternative Facts and Futures, Barrister’s Hall
- Wendy Mariner, Boston University – Health Law and Democracy
- Robert Field, Anthony Orlando, Arnold J. Rosoff, University of Pennsylvania – The Government Built It, and the Private Sector Came: Health Reform, For-Profit Health Care, and the Ever-Growing Role of Health Law
- Jennifer Bard, University of Cincinnati – Looking at Law School Healthcare Compliance Programs After Loper-Bright: How We Got Here and Where We Should Go Next
- Lori Andrews, Chicago-Kent Law – Skin in the Game: Human Tissue as Property
- Mark Hall, Wake Forest Law – Is Medical Liability Part of Health Law
12:00pm – Lunch, Faculty Lounge/Atrium
1:00pm-2:00pm – Pike Lecture, Barrister’s Hall – Chai Feldblum, Civil and Disability Rights Advocate and former Commissioner of the EEOC
Please join us in Barristers Hall for the Annual Pike Lecture featuring Chai Feldblum, "From Mops and Brooms to Cybersecurity: Leveraging the Power of Federal Procurement for People with Disabilities."
People with disabilities continue to face discrimination in the workplace despite laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) designed to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. The unemployment rate for people with significant disabilities is twice as high as the unemployment rate for people without disabilities. Passage of the ADA has not made a significant dent in this unemployment rate over the past three decades. This lecture will explore the possibilities of leveraging billions of dollars in federal procurement contracts to expand quality employment opportunities for people with significant disabilities. Tracing laws, policies, and social norms from 1938 to the present time, this lecture will present a historical view of a federal procurement program that began with a limited vision of job opportunities for people with significant disabilities to a program that offers the potential to achieve more positive and quality employment opportunities than can be achieved solely through anti-discrimination or affirmative action laws.
2:30pm-4:00pm - Health Law Stories, Barrister’s Hall
- Caroline Diamond, Laura Ferguson, Sofia Gruskin, USC Gould School of Law – Experiential Learning in Global Health: Engaging with Multilateral Institutions in an Age of Rights Regression
- Health Law Faculty, Boston University
- Sylvia Law, New York University
- Robin Sterling Eckerling, Tempus