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Health Law Week Kicks Off February 10 with Networking Fair
02/06/2020
Networking and learning opportunities, healthy food choices, and the annual McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award Lecture are on the agenda February 10-14 during Health Law Week at IU McKinney School of Law.
Activities begin on Monday, February 10 with the Health Networking Fair, the IU McKinney Health Law Society’s biggest event of the year. The networking opportunity, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Inlow Hall Atrium, will allow law students to mingle with practicing health law attorneys. Students are encouraged to register to attend.
On Tuesday, February 11, students will be treated to a free, healthy breakfast beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Inlow Hall breezeway.
The following day, Wednesday, February 12, Visiting Assistant Professor Daniel G. Orenstein, JD, MPH, will speak on “Cannabis and Health Law” at 7:30 p.m. in Room 259. Professor Orenstein's research interest centers on legal and public health best practices in cannabis policy, including emerging regulatory approaches, industry structure and behavior.
The annual McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award Lecture on Friday, February 14 will feature Professor Françoise Baylis of Dalhousie University presenting “Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing.”
The lecture, presented by the Hall Center for Law and Health, begins with a light lunch at 11:30 a.m., followed by the lecture and panel discussion beginning at noon. This is a free event, but registration is required.
Professor Baylis is a philosopher whose innovative work in bioethics, at the intersection of policy and practice, has stretched the very boundaries of the field. Her work challenges readers to think broadly and deeply about the direction of health, science and biotechnology. It aims to move the limits of mainstream bioethics and develop more effective ways to understand and tackle public policy challenges in Canada and abroad.
