Videos tagged with Health Law Society

  • This year (2020) marks the 30th anniversary of President George H.W. Bush signing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. Jennifer Mathis, Director of Policy and Legal Advocacy at Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, John Petrila, Vice President of Adult Policy at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, and Holly Stiles, Litigation Counsel at Disability Rights North Carolina participate in a panel; and question and answer. The event was moderated by Dr. Marvin Swartz.

  • Issues related to gun ownership have plagued the United States for a long time. The Supreme Court's decision in Heller marked a new beginning in the legal debate concerning private gun ownership. In the recent years, mass shootings and terrorist attacks have brought ongoing attention to this legal and social issue. With President Obama's new gun control executive order, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death, and the upcoming presidential election, the future of gun control is even more unpredictable. Professors Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller from Duke Law School, Jeffrey W.

  • The Global Health Law and Policy Symposium, held at Duke Law School on Nov. 6, 2015, featured keynote speaker Professor Benjamin Mason Meier, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and a Faculty Fellow at UNC's Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease. The event also featured two panel discussions on lessons from the recent Ebola outbreak and human rights issues in global health governance. Panelists include Dr. Chris Woods, Dr. Cameron R. Wolfe, Prof., Dr. Sulzhan Bali, Dr. Michael H. Merson, Prof.

  • The Global Health Law and Policy Symposium, held at Duke Law School on Nov. 6, 2015, featured keynote speaker Professor Benjamin Mason Meier, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and a Faculty Fellow at UNC's Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease. The event also featured two panel discussions on lessons from the recent Ebola outbreak and human rights issues in global health governance. Panelists include Dr. Chris Woods, Dr. Cameron R. Wolfe, Prof. Jerome Reichman, Dr. Michael H. Merson, Prof.

  • The Supreme Court's health care ruling was an extremely important, and perhaps surprising, decision. Professor Neil Siegel (whose writings may have influenced part of the opinion), Professor Steven Sachs (author on health reform and former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts), and Asheesh Agarwal of Ogletree Deakins (an authority on the possible impacts of the decision) discuss the ruling. Professor Joseph Blocher will moderate. Sponsored by the American Constitution Society, the Federalist Society, and the Health Law Society.

  • Join distinguished Baltimore attorney George Liebmann and concerned faculty, students and staff in a lunch-time session to discuss the end of the War on Drugs. Mr. Liebmann, Executive Director of the Calvert Institute in Baltimore and sometime Fellow at Cambridge University, is widely engaged in working for law reform.

  • Big Muscles=Big Money What Can and Should Be Done to Control the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in the Sports World?

    A panel will address the complex issues of regulating doping in professional and amateur sports including: Is federal legislation appropriate? Is it fair? Does testing work? What are the economic and health benefits and risks to the athletes? To the fans?

    Recorded on November 08, 2005.