Charm City Colloquium on Law and Bioethics
Description
Unlike more formal conferences, the CCCLB is intended to provide scholars with an opportunity for informal dialogue in a roundtable format on current topics at the intersection of health policy, law, and ethics. Our hope is that the CCCLB will foster good conversations, strong articles, and a vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars.
This inaugural year, our discussion will focus on the contribution of bioethics to law and policy and the contribution of law to the field of bioethics. We are committed to including a diversity of perspectives and disciplines. Contributions may be in the areas of public health, clinical practice, science (biomedical and behavioral research as well as governance of new technologies), the health care system, or more conceptual or jurisprudential submissions on the relationship between bioethics and law.
Participants are invited to explore such topics as the tensions between bioethics and law; how law can and should address and contribute to analysis of bioethics issues; the willingness of legal institutions (courts, legislatures, agencies) to entertain bioethics arguments; the types of bioethics arguments (social justice, utilitarian, religious-based) that are effective in different legal settings; or others of their own choosing.
Invitees to the Colloquium were asked to submit, as a “ticket of admission,” a short paper that discusses an issue or issues related to the proposed topic. The “tickets” which have been submitted can be found at the links below. These tickets are meant to facilitate the informal exchange of views, not serve as traditional conference papers. While lengthy formal papers are not required for the Colloquium, the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy has agreed to publish a symposium issue devoted to articles that develop out of the event. Participants may choose to publish in the journal, publish separately, or use their ticket for entrance to the event only.
Agenda
Thursday, September 26
5:00 – 5:45 p.m. - RECEPTION, University of Maryland School of Law - (Faculty Study)
5:45 – 6:00 p.m. - Welcome Remarks - (Krongard Room)
Jeff Kahn, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Diane Hoffmann, University of Maryland School of Law
6:00 – 7:15 p.m. - PANEL 1: Setting the Stage - (Krongard Room)
Moderator: Diane Hoffmann
Panelists & Topics:
Mark Rothstein—The development of bioethics in the U.S. from legal cases and laws (pdf - Rothestein)
Nadia Sawicki—Law’s Deference to Medical Ethics (pdf - Sawicki)
Zack Berger—The Hermeneutics of Healthcare and Halacha: Text and Praxis in Health and Judaism (pdf - Berger)
Lisa Ikemoto—Health Care for All in a Religious State (pdf - Ikemoto)
7: 15 – 8:30 p.m. - Dinner - (Comcast Area)
Friday, September 27
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. - Breakfast - (Krongard Room)
8:30 – 8:40 a.m. - Welcome and Format for the Day
8:40 – 9:55 a.m. - PANEL 2: Issues in Clinical Practice - (Krongard Room)
Moderator: Travis Rieder, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Panelists & Topics:
Emily Largent—Supported Decision Making For People At The Margins Of Autonomy (pdf - Largent)
Dena Davis—Why advance directives won’t help you avoid Alzheimer’s (pdf - Davis)
Art Derse—The Law Has a Role in Clinical Ethics Consultation – Except When It Doesn’t:
Examples from End of Life Care (pdf - Derse)
David Orentlicher—Aid in dying laws – requirements for competency and terminal illness (pdf - Orentlicher)
9:55 – 10:10 a.m. - BREAK
10:10 – 11:25 a.m. - PANEL 3: Issues in Research - (Krongard Room)
Moderator: Karen Rothenberg, University of Maryland School of Law
Panelists & Topics:
Valerie Bonham—Moratoria on scientific research (pdf - Bonham)
Nancy King—Emerging biotechnology research: biotechnological solutions for social problems (pdf - King)
Anna Mastroianni—Interdisciplinary Research: A Case Study (pdf - Mastroianni)
Margaret Riley—FDA Drug Development and Bioethics (pdf - Riley)
11:25 – 12:55 p.m. - PANEL 4: Issues in Public Health - (Krongard Room)
Moderator: Joe Ali, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Panelists & Topics:
Richard Saver—Physicians’ Elusive Public Health Duties (pdf - Saver)
Sam Halabi—The Law and Ethics of Data Sharing during Infectious Disease Emergencies (pdf - Halabi)
Stephen Hanson—Social justice as a necessary guide to public health response to disasters and other areas of scarce resources (pdf - Hanson)
Laura Hermer—The Fallacy of Individual Deservingness (pdf - Hermer)
Gerard Vong—Systematic Problems with Incentives in Healthcare & Justified Legal Reform: The Example of the Nondisclosure of Donor Organ Offer Refusals (pdf - Vong)
12:55 -1:40 p.m. - LUNCH - (Courtyard)
1:40 – 3:10 p.m. - PANEL 5: Justice Issues - (Krongard Room)
Moderator: Leslie Henry, University of Maryland School of Law
Panelists & Topics:
Amy Campbell—Charm City Colloquium 2019 - Abstract: The impact of structural economic inequity on health, especially by race/ethnicity (pdf - Campbell)
Mary Crossley—Disparate Impact in Law and Bioethics (pdf - Crossley)
Rob Gatter—The application of a social justice construct to Medicare compliance (fraud and abuse) (pdf - Gatter)
Jack Schwartz—Just Access to Digital Medicine: Do Fraud and Abuse Laws Block the Way? (pdf - Schwartz)
Jessica Roberts—A Social Justice Approach to Genetics (pdf - Roberts)
3:10 – 3:25 p.m. - BREAK
3:25 – 4:40 p.m. - PANEL 6: Private Choice and Third Party Oversight - (Krongard Room)
Moderator: Debra Mathews, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Panelists & Topics:
Debra DeBruin—Coercive Interventions in Pregnancy: Law and Ethics (pdf - DeBruin)
Kimberly Mutcherson—Regulation of individuals who pursue procreation with the assistance of technology (pdf - Mutcherson)
Elizabeth Pike—An Ethical Framework for Nonconsensual Data Collection (pdf - Pike)
Ben Berkman—Workplace Wellness Programs: Empirical Doubt, Legal Ambiguity, and conceptual confusion (pdf - Berkman)
4:40 – 4:50 p.m. - Closing comments
This event is supported by the Karen Rothenberg and Jeffrey Seltzer Law & Health Care Program Endowment and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.