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Mission Statement

The Journal of Health & Biomedical Law will strive to advance Suffolk University Law School’s commitment to academic distinction in the challenging, fast-paced and rapidly expanding field of Health and Biomedical Law. It is the Journal’s mission to: provide its editors and staff with an opportunity to contribute to this ever-expanding area of law; expand the base of health and biomedical legal resources; provide a much needed publication to the technology, health and biomedical industries in the greater-Boston area; and to make available a comprehensive, peer and student-reviewed, academic publication for health and legal students, professionals and academics.  

JHBL SYMPOSIUM - CONFRONTING DEATH: A Discussion on End-of-Life Care

The Journal of Health & Biomedical Law at Suffolk University Law School would like to invite you to attend our upcoming Symposium on End-of-Life Care. The Symposium will take place on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 from 11:30-3:00 in the first floor function room at Suffolk Law School (120 Tremont Street, Boston MA). The program will begin at 11:30 with a buffet lunch and the panel discussion will begin at 12:15. The symposium is titled "Confronting Death: A Discussion on End-of-Life Care.”

We are thrilled about our panel of experts who will be participating in a discussion at our Symposium. They include:

Kathryn Tucker, JD
Legal Director of Compassion & Choice.
“Coming of Age: Is it Time for Aid in Dying to be Governed by Standard of Care?”

Michele Goodwin, JD, LLM
Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota,
“Too disabled for an organ transplant, and when discrimination and organ donation collide.”


Daniel Callahan, MA, PhD,

Co-founder, Senior Researcher, and President Emeritus of the Hastings Center.

“The New Frontier: Prognosis and End-of-Life Care.”


Robert Truog, MD
Co-director of Clinical Ethics at Harvard Medical School
“Medical Futility: When is Enough, Enough?”

William Brisk, JD, PhD
Principal, Law Office of William J. Brisk and Adjunct Professor at Suffolk University Law School
Professor Brisk will comment on the issues raised during the program and discuss how those issues affect his estate planning practice.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Renée M. Landers, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School and Faculty Director of the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration.

We are thrilled to be hosting this discussion by our panel at Suffolk University Law School and we welcome you to join us. Please RSVP by emailing jhbl@suffolk.edu or calling 603.440.3067. You can find directions to the Law School at this link: http://www.law.suffolk.edu/about/directions.cfm. In the meantime, please contact us at jhbl@suffolk.edu with any questions about the event.

 

• For copies of any article or volume please contact the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health & Biomedical Law at jhbl@suffolk.edu
• All articles are also available on LexisNexis and Westlaw
JHBL Symposium invitation

 

 

 

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