The Seminar Series attracts both speakers and participants from a wide range of disciplines as well as from a wide range of institutions. The goal of the Series is to introduce students to a variety of interdisciplinary approaches (incorporating law, economics, bioethics, philosophy, political science, etc.) and to explore contemporary issues in health law and policy. Previous speakers have included George Annas (Boston University), David Cutler (Harvard University), Michael Decter (Chair of the Canadian Health Council), Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie Law School), Lara Khoury (McGill University), Bartha Knoppers (Université de Montreal), Timothy Stoltzfus Jost (Washington & Lee Law School), Roy Romanow, Jennifer Prah Ruger (Yale University), William Sage (Columbia Law School), and David Weisbrot (President of the Australian Law Reform Commission). Topics have included litigating health care rights, reducing global health disparities, medical savings accounts, drug treatment courts, assisted human reproduction, the definition of medical necessity, medical malpractice, genomic databases, health privacy, the regulation of medical research, legal and ethical issues of pharmacogenomics, access to pharmaceuticals, reform of the Canada Health Act, privatization in health care, the Romanow recommendations and many others.
