Law and Biomedicine Colloquium
The Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences presents
The 2025 Law & Biomedicine Colloquium
The Law and Biomedicine Colloquium brings together scholars, practitioners in our community, law students, and law faculty for seminar-style discussion of complex and controversial topics in the field. We are excited to be welcoming distinguished scholars from other law schools, as well as leaders in legal practice in law and the biosciences. Registered students at the College of Law will receive one hour of credit for participating in the colloquium; other interested participants are welcome to join us. There will be time for questions and answers and casual conversation. Visit the Center’s web page to learn more about the Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences.
1.5 hours CLE (pending). Free and open to the public.
To attend in person or to receive the Zoom passcode, please contact Cynthia.
All lectures will be held from 1:30-3 p.m.
Jim Ruble, Executive Dean, University of Utah
and T. Joseph "Joey" Mattingly II, Associate Professor, University of Utah
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Lisa Gora, Esq, Partner, Epstein Becker, New Jersey
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Aisling McMahon, Professor, Maynooth University (Ireland)
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Leah Fowler, Professor, University of Houston
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January 16 Description
This talk explores the disease of cancer through a legal lens. It examines how cancer is treated by various legal regimes including administrative law, food and drug law, patent law, and healthcare law, and compares our legal approach to cancer with rising cancer rates in the U.S.
January 23 Description
This presentation explores the structure of Pharmacy Benefit Managers and their role in drug pricing and the pharmaceutical supply chain. Professor Ruble will provide context and an overview of the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act and the status of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Drug Price Negotiation project. Professor Mattingly will discuss the economics of drug pricing and impact of Pharmacy Benefit Manager programs.
February 6 Description
Professor Gora will offer insight into the interplay between medicinal cannabis and the health care industry, as well as related information on legal and practical considerations in connection with business opportunities surrounding medicinal cannabis and its by-products.
February 13 Description
Professor Robertson be lecturing on his 2019 book, Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done about It. That book explores why and how the US healthcare system depends so heavily on deductibles and co-pays, and how that shapes our experience of healthcare and the healthcare we get. Robertson will share new work exploring how this system can actually harm our health by deterring needed healthcare and it does so even where the law has sought to eliminate copays and deductibles.
Previous Law & Biomedicine Colloquiums
2024 Colloquium
Variation in Data Sharing Practices and Privacy Gaps in US Hospitals and Health Systems
Brian Jackson, Adjunct Professor, University of Utah
Removing Insult From Injury: Medical Negligence and Access to Justice
Edward Havas, President, Dewsnup King & Olsen
Genetics and Privacy in the Criminal Legal System
Natalie Ram, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Non-Traditional Law in Health Care
Meghan Smart , Director of Quality & Risk, Mountain View Hospital
The Re-Emergence of Antitrust in Health Law
Thomas Greaney , Research Professor, University of California San Francisco School of Law
Maintaining Corporate Compliance in a Changing Healthcare Landscape
Travis Walker , Director, Elevance Health
Value-Based Care Models in Multi-Specialty Group Practice
Mary Squire, General Counsel, Revere Health
EMTALA's Reach - Current Legal Considerations Post Dobbs
Stephanie Westermeier, General Counsel, Saint Alphonsus Health System & Managing Counsel, Trinity Health
Mifepristone in the Courts
Jordan Paradise, Georgia Reithal Professor of Law and Co-Director, Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
2022 Colloquium
(Mis)conceiving Bodies and Minds: Medical Models of Disability and the ADA
Leslie Francis, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Representing Hospitals in a Pandemic
Kristy M. Kimball and Blaine Benard, Holland and Hart
Collective Cognitive Capital
Emily Murphy, UC Hastings Law
The Role of Law and Policy in Advancing Disability Health Justice
Elizabeth Pendo, Saint Louis University School of Law
Navigating the Waters of Vaccination Mandates
Greg Matis, Intermountain Healthcare
Remote Reproductive Rights
Rachel Rebouche, Temple University School of Law
'In the Public Interest' - University Technology Transfer and the Nine Points Document – An Empirical Assessment
Jorge Contreras, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Intersection of Government Health Regulation, IP, Trade, and Privacy Enforcement
Jared J. Braithwaite and Alexis Juergnes, Foley & Lardner
2021 Colloquium
Not So Private
Stacey Tovino, University of Oklahoma
The Critical Nature of Social Ties in COVID19 and other Disasters
Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University
The PrEP Penalty
Doron Dorfman, Syracuse University College of Law
The Open COVID Pledge: Design, Implementation and Preliminary Assessment of an Intellectual Property Commons
Jorge Contreras, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Discriminating among discriminations? Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act
Leslie Francis and Tenielle Brown, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Hot Topics and Emerging Issues in Privacy
Delight Roberts, Senior Advisor, Microsoft, Technology and Research
Women Don't Get AIDS, They Just Die From It": Feminist Politics in Pandemics
Aziza Ahmed, Northeastern University
Passports of Privilege
Seema Mohapatra, Indiana University
2020 Colloquium
The Patent Cliff for Biologics
Ana Santos Rutschman, St. Louis University School of Law
Gray Matters: comparing the criminal justice and public health use of neuroscience to predict violence
Teneille Brown, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Forensic Science and DNA Testing: Past, Present and Future
John Butler, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
January 29, 2020 –
Derek Bambauer, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Citizen Bioscience and its Rewards
Jorge Contreras, S.J. Quinney College of Law
February 12, 2020 –
Lowell Brown, Arent Fox Los Angeles
A Theory of Genetic Interests
Yaniv Heled, Georgia State University College of Law
One Child Town: Making a Health Care Case for Saving Rural America
Elizabeth Weeks, University of Georgia School of Law