• Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster, June 8-10, 2012.
• Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt?, June 10-12, 2012.

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Satellite workshops:

• ELSI 2.0: Planning an International Collaboratory for Genomics and Society Research, June 26, 2012.
• FAB (Feminist Approaches to Bioethics), June 25-26, 2012. (The call for papers deadline was Dec. 1, 2011.)
• WMA (World Medical Association), June 26, 2012. (The deadline for submitting abstracts was Feb. 1, 2012.)
• Circumcision: Forbid, Deter or Encourage?, June 28, 2012.

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• The deadline for Vol. 6, No. 1, an open issue, was April 1, 2012.
• The deadline for Vol. 6, No. 2, a special issue on Aging and Long-term Care, is Sept. 15, 2012.
• Vol. 7, No. 1 will have papers from FAB 2012. Submissions for that event were due Dec. 1, 2011.

Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw

On this, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Hall Center, we welcome a stellar collection of nationally recognized health law scholars to celebrate this important birthday by looking ahead. To imagine the next quarter century of health care law and policy the symposium participants will be casting their critical predictive analysis on the major themes of health law, from finance and access to care through quality & ethics and emerging scientific and technological challenges.

• Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., reception to follow
• Location: Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York Street, Indianapolis, IN
• Contact: Carsandra Knight, 274-1912, calknigh@iupui.edu

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), titled “Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators,” which proposes to substantially amend the Common Rule for the first time in twenty years. This development, as well as attention by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, suggests we are at a moment when the regulation of human subjects research is ripe for re-thinking. This conference will gather leading experts from the U.S. and across the globe to assist in that endeavor.

We have limited space, so attendance is by permission. To apply to attend please email a paragraph explaining your interest and background to Shannon Sayer at ssayer@law.harvard.edu.

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The theme for our 2012 Symposium is “Beyond IP: How Intellectual Property and Technology Influence Other Areas of Law.” The topics for our panels are: Climate Change and Clean Technology Incentivization; Technology and Government Surveillance in the Post-9/11 World; and Copyright and the Future of the Entertainment Industry. The Symposium will also include an opening address discussing the effects of the new America Invents Act, as well as a Keynote Luncheon discussing international compulsory licensing of pharmaceutical patents.

Initial Preliminary Statements of Research Proposals, not to exceed one page, must be received by March 15, 2012, to receive full consideration for the 2012-13 funding cycle. SCJI will request a full proposal from selected authors by April 15, 2012. The 2011 SCJI Empirical Research Workshop will take place in June 2012.

SCJI will fully support certain accepted proposals by paying author(s) to lead the research efforts, providing in-house econometricians and legal experts as project staff, paying for necessary data (which includes employing large numbers of research assistants to find and code data that might otherwise by unavailable), and funding a comprehensive communications strategy for the final Public Policy Report.

More information is available on SSRN. mw

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Anyone interested in speaking at the Symposium and/or publishing in the Hamline Law Review’s Symposium issue should submit both a CV and a 500-word abstract to: healthlawsym2012[at]hamline.edu by March 30th, 2012.

FURTHER INFORMATION: For questions, please contact Hamline Health Law Institute Director and Law Professor Thaddeus Pope at tpope01[at]hamline.edu. ae