The faculty is made up of distinguished food experts such as Catherine GESLAIN-LANÉELLE (keynote speaker), Executive Director at EFSA, Catherine ADAMS HUTT, former Chief Quality, Food Safety and Nutrition Officer at McDonald’s, Peter Barton HUTT, Lecturer on Food and Drug Law at Harvard University and Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, Susanne KETTLER, Director Regulatory Affairs at Coca-Cola, Brussels, and Lee Ann JACKSON, Counsellor at the WTO, Geneva – to name only a few.

For further information and online registration please visit the conference site.  Space is limited to 25, so make sure to reserve your place today!
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• 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 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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aims to examine legal problems and issues across a diverse range of opinions.After providing a legal framework for a particular question, books int he series will call on experts in other fileds like science, business, history, engineering, political science, and even art to broaden and enhance the discussion. &LAW will provides unique, and at times, unexpected, answers to challenging topics of contemporary importance.

There series will include one or two publications a year, in print and e-book formats. Book proposals should be sent to:

Tracy A. Thomas
Professor of Law
The University of Akron School of Law
Akron, OH 44325-2901
(330) 972-6617
thomast@uakron.edu

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There will be six tracks for abstract submissions:

• Track 1 on “Scientific Research and Innovation Commons”
• Track 2 on “Digital Information Commons”
• Track 3 on “Historical experience of the knowledge commons”
• Track 4 on “Genetic Resource Commons”
• Track 5 on “Cultural Commons”
• Cross-cutting conference track 6 on climate change

The 1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons aims to bring together leading people from a number of international scientific research communities, social science researchers, practitioners and policy analysts, to discuss the rationale and practical feasibility of institutional arrangements designed to emulate key public domain conditions for collaborative research.

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Robotics seems increasingly likely to become a transformative technology. This conference will build on existing scholarship exploring the role of robotics to examine how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, and even to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking of various policy issues.

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If you are interested in participating please reply to petrie-flom[at]law.harvard.edu as soon as possible, but not later than November 25, 2011, and include a brief, single-paragraph description of your proposal for presentation. Full abstracts will be due by January 6, 2012, and final submissions will be due after Spring Break, closer to the date of the event.

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 is meant to gather leading experts from the U.S. and across the globe to assist in that endeavor.

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The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, alternating between Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.

Paper submissions for the Forum should be sent to Ms. Kaitlin Burroughs at Harvard Law School (1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138). Electronic submissions should be sent to kburroughs[at]law.harvard.edu. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2012. Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper falls under.

Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Adriaan Lanni (adlanni[at]law.harvard.edu) or Gabriella Blum (gblum[at]law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, Joseph Bankman at Stanford Law School (jbankman[at]stanford.edu), or Ian Ayres at Yale Law School (ian.ayres[at]yale.edu)

The focus of this year’s session will be public law and the humanities. The topics to be addressed are:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law, Social Welfare Policy, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Environmental Law
Family Law
Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, and Gender Studies)
Legal History
Public International Law
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