Petrie-Flom Center
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Research program at Harvard Law School exploring issues at the intersection of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics https://linktr.ee/petrieflom
Written as part of a recent Harvard Law School faculty essay collection, America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance @mitpress.bsky.social, I. Glenn Cohen's article on reproductive technology has been reposted on @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/08/repr...
The Harvard Gazette published an article this week covering Hot Topics in Embryo Law and Ethics, a panel discussion we held at Harvard Law School in June. Read the Article: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
The fifth and final panel of our annual conference was Derived and Synthetic Gametes and Embryos www.youtube.com/watch?v=-50y...
The fourth panel of our annual conference titled New Technology, New Challenges: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TEV...
On Bill of Health: Gary Hsuanyu Liu argues FDA should not accept health data that FTC deems unacceptable. "Clean evidence is not a barrier to health innovation. Clean evidence is health infrastructure." petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/07/15/w...
Third panel at our Embryo Law and Ethics conference was Defining Humans and Persons www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kL...
The second panel of our annual conference focused on Embryo Disposition. Watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dCG...
I. Glenn Cohen will participate in a Greenwall Foundation webinar next Thursday at 2 p.m. ET. Register for "A Bioethics Conversation: What's Next for Psychedelics?" us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Video recordings are now available for our annual conference on Embryo Law and Ethics. Click here to watch the first panel, IVF Past, Present, and Future: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOxn...
New in @jama.com: I. Glenn Cohen, @hollylynchez.bsky.social, and Amy L. McGuire analyze Trump’s new EO on psychedelic therapies jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
New guest editorial by I. Glenn Cohen in the American Journal of Bioethics. When technology shifts healthcare tasks from professionals to patients, is that empowering, or merely transforming work and responsibility? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Video is now available for our Hot Topics expert panel on embryo law and ethics youtu.be/7pI2sajIO8g?...
Hot Topics in Embryo Law and Ethics
YouTube video by Harvard Law School
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On June 16, we gathered experts and scholars in the field of embryo law and ethics for our annual conference, a closed-door writers workshop that will eventually become an edited volume. Video of the conference will soon be available.
Last week, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted Hot Topics on Embryo Law and Ethics, an expert panel focusing on embryo disposition and development of embryo models. Video of the provocative discussion will be up on our event page soon.
New article in @jama.com by Ifeoma Ajunwa, Ravi B. Parikh, and I. Glenn Cohen, “When Patients Share Everything With an AI Chatbot: Risks and Opportunities of Large Language Models." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @emorylaw.bsky.social @jamanetworkopen.com
🔦 STUDENT FELLOW SPOTLIGHT🔦 Tai Dinger is a law student and a PhD candidate in Health Policy, interested in the intersections of law, economics, and decision sciences, the study of how we [should] make decisions. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/author/tai-d...
RSVP to join us in person June 15 for this expert panel discussion at Harvard Law School, kicking off the following day’s livestreamed annual conference. Click the link to learn about our panelists: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...
🔦 STUDENT FELLOW SPOTLIGHT🔦 Quincy Martin has written on topics at the intersection of healthcare innovation and social determinants of health: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/author/quinc...
Register to join us in-person on June 15, or virtually June 16, to learn more about embryo law and ethics. June 15 panel discussion: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai... June 16 livestream: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...
🔦 STUDENT FELLOW SPOTLIGHT🔦 Julia Etkin has written on ethics and equity, including AI chatbots dispensing medical advice, New York’s new Medical Aid in Dying law, regulating psychedelics as food, digital twins, and abortifacient ideology petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/author/julia...
“Brains need help as they recover from drug addiction, and inmates have a legal right to access appropriate treatment,” writes Mesa, a @danafoundation.bsky.social Neurotech Justice Fellow with the Petrie-Flom Center petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/04/28/p...
The newest DOJ scrutiny of medical school admissions may quietly shrink the physician pipeline when the U.S. is already facing shortages, write Gregory Curfman and Linda Brubaker, both of @jama.com petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/04/24/m...
🔦STUDENT FELLOW SPOTLIGHT🔦 Danny Finley’s writing on the blog this year has focused on antitrust, consumer protection, and civil rights law petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/author/danny...
New in @nejm.org: Sara Gerke, Ravi B. Parikh, and I. Glenn Cohen co-author an article on a first-in-the-nation pilot AI prescription program in Utah: www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
On April 18, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to “dramatically accelerate access to new medical research and treatments based on psychedelic drugs.” Susannah Baruch asked I. Glenn Cohen & Mason Marks to talk about the implications: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/04/18/a...
🔦STUDENT FELLOW SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Jared Vornhagen’s posts on Bill of Health had a strong focus on law, science, and criminal justice petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/author/jared...
🔦STUDENT FELLOW SPOTLIGHT 🔦 Evelyn Shiang has covered a wide variety of topics on our blog this year: opioid settlement funds, food safety, tattoo regulations, HIV eradication, and “that ICE scene” in the TV show The Pitt. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/author/evely...
In celebration of World Health Day, Petrie-Flom Visiting Scholar Thalia Viveros Uehara highlights how an advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is one of the most comprehensive judicial pronouncements ever on climate change. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/04/07/t...
