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Conferences Center for Health Law Studies presents Friday, October 23, 2009 This day long conference will explore policy and legal issues involved in controlling abuses in the payment and delivery of health care services in the current era of reform and financial crisis. Speakers from a wide array of backgrounds will give their perspective on the extent of waste, fraud and abuse and the possibility of controlling costs by improved law enforcement and regulatory measures. Leading federal and state prosecutors will discuss priorities and enforcement methods and representatives of the provider and payor community will comment on the effect of regulations on medical care and delivery. The program is co-sponsored by the law firm of Stinson Morrison Hecker. Symposium Web site: Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture by Lecturer Professor john a. powell Friday, October 2, 2009 Professor john a. powell’s lecture will highlight a day-long conference on “Remaking Law: Moving Beyond a Jurisprudence of the Enlightenment.” Professor powell is the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Moritz College of Law and the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Professor powell’s lecture and following panels consisting of a distinguished interdisciplinary collection of scholars will consider the extent to which many of the assumptions and doctrines of the U.S. legal system are based upon ideas which recent developments in social and natural sciences have called into question. This unique day-long symposium will examine the various Enlightenment concepts which serve as the foundation for much of American jurisprudence and consider the extent to which those premises reflect subsequent developments in the social and natural sciences. The program will consider this question with reference to a number of contemporary areas of American law and will consider how the law might be revised to accommodate 21st-century thought and principles. Conference Web site: Competition in the Global Workplace: The Role of Law in Economic Markets Recent dramatic changes in economic markets and national economies, and advances in technology and communica-tions have produced an evolving, global workplace. Employment and work-related issues can no longer be addressed only in local or even national terms—a broader perspective is required. This conference brings together a group of leading legal scholars to address current, critical questions, including: What is the practical role of worker representation and of collective action by workers in the global workplace? Lessons will also be drawn from diverse labor and employment experiences in Canada, Chile, and the European Union. Presented by Saint Louis University Wefel Center for Employment Law, Conference Web site: 21st Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium Presented by Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy Friday, March 20, 2009 Advances in genetic technology raise a broad range of legal, social and ethical concerns. Fear of genetic discrimination remains an issue, as evidenced by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 limiting the use of genetic information by employers and health insurance providers. Other concerns include the meaning and uses of genetic knowledge in the face of uncertain choices; the significance of genetic information for ideas of self, family and community; and the challenges of genetic enhancement and personalized genomic medicine. This Symposium gathers leading experts and scholars from fields including law, medicine and anthropology to discuss these and other challenges of living in the genetic age. To register or for more information, go to the conference Web site: Saint Louis University Public Law Review 2009 Symposium Friday, February 27, 2009 The recent instability in the nation's housing markets has demonstrated the complex relationship between property ownership and economic stability for lower-income families. Until recently, many experts argued that such families could not hope to achieve the "American dream" without owning their own homes. Increasingly, events from the past year are calling the assumptions underlying these assertions into question. This symposium brings together a group of leading scholars and practitioners to examine the relationship between property ownership and economic stability, both domestically and abroad. Among other issues, speakers will discuss barriers to creating affordable housing, property rights in the international context and changing definitions of property ownership in the United States. Conference Web site: The First 100 Years of Women Speaker Series 2008-09 In 1908, five women made history at Saint Louis University School of Law when they became the first women students in the history of the University. To celebrate the first 100 years of women at Saint Louis University, the School of Law is hosting a series of speakers focusing on issues facing women in the legal profession. Work-Life Balance and Its Challenges Psychology of Juries: Does Gender Matter? Women in Public Service Stress, Professional Obligations and Caregiving: Intersection of Race and Gender Building a Business: Client Development For more information, go to the conference Web site: Still Crazy After All These Years This lecture will explore the rocky relationship among law, medicine and ethics. First, it will provide specific examples where law, medicine and ethics have clashed, drawing on experiences and studies regarding pain management, the response to managed care, the regulation of research with human subjects and medical futility. Second, it will analyze the common issues shared by these attempts to regulate physician behavior with an eye toward identifying the ways that physicians react to legal risk in different aspects of their practice; the limits of the adoption of a "clinical guidelines" and safe harbor approach to lawmaking in the medical area, including the design and implementation of immunity statutes to encourage physician risk-taking; and the extent of a call from ethics to assume legal risk in the practice of medicine. Conference Web site:
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