Harvard Law School to Receive $10 Million for New Bioethics, Law Center
Harvard Law School Receives $10 Million for New Bioethics, Law Center
Harvard Law School has announced a $10 million gift from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and law school alumnus Joseph H. Flom ('48), a partner in the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom, to establish a center to study ethical and legal issues raised by advances in biotechnology and genetics.
The new Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics will focus on issues driven by advances in a range of scientific disciplines, as well as on healthcare policy. In addition to hosting research fellows and serving as an incubator for new ideas, the center will undertake major research studies and hold conferences and symposia.
Although it will be based at the law school, the center will draw upon work done at many of Harvard's other schools, including its medical school, school of public health, and the Kennedy School of Government. The center will be directed by Einer Elhauge, the Carroll and Milton Petrie professor of law.
"Given all the legal issues associated with health policy, biotechnology, and bioethics, Harvard Law School has an obligation to put significant resources and brainpower into this new center," said dean Elena Kagan. "We owe it to today's students — whom we must prepare for a modern world of legal practice — and we owe it to our communities to make sure this new venture succeeds. It is my hope that the ideas generated by the Petrie-Flom Center will establish an important intellectual agenda and, ultimately, improve people's lives."
“Harvard Law School Launches New Center to Investigate Intersections of Health, Technology, and Law.”
Harvard Law School Press Release
11/29/05.
Primary Subject: Education
Secondary Subject(s): Higher Education, Civil Society, Health, Science/Technology
Location(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts
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