The Petrie-Flom Center welcomes our first Senior Fellow in Law and Neuroscience, Amanda C. Pustilnik, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law.  Professor Pustilnik teaches Law & Neuroscience, Evidence, and Criminal Law at the University of Maryland School of Law, and has served as lecturer at Harvard Law School and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in the History and Philosophy of Science department. Before entering the academy, she practiced litigation, clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and worked at McKinsey & Company. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Science and Law and the board of directors of the John Harvard Scholarships.

 

The Senior Fellowship in Law and Neuroscience is one component of the new Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a joint venture between the Petrie-Flom Center and the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital; other components include a Seminar on Law and Neuroscience at Harvard Law School, and a range of public symposia. 

 

In the Project's first year, it will focus primarily on pain, as described here.  The question of how to recognize and treat pain and suffering is an issue with important legal, scientific, medical, and ethical dimensions. Professor Pustilnik will bring together experts in pain, emotion, and the law, from within Harvard and beyond, to explore the complex intersection of the neuroscience and ethics of pain and suffering and its implications for civil and criminal law.

 

More information on the project is available here. Please join us in welcoming Amanda! 

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Check out our website for a more complete listing of events scheduled in 2014-2015. Remember, you can find materials from many of our events, including slide presentations and full event videos, online in our events archive.

Washington, DC

Harvard Law School, Ames Courtroom, 1575 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Transparency in the Global Food System: How Much Information and to What Ends?

UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA

Save the Date for More Upcoming Petrie-Flom Events!

• Petrie-Flom Reception at 2014 PRIM&R Annual Conference, December 5, 2014

• Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review, January 30, 2015 

• Families Matter: Ethically, Legally, and Clinically, March 18 - 21, 2015

• 2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and American Health Care, May 8 - 9, 2015

 

 

 

 

Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden

Harvard Innovation Lab, 125 Western Avenue, Boston, MA

 

 

 

 

 

"Autonomy's Price: Choosing Not to Choose" 

Thursday, October 30, 2014, 4:30 PM

Harvard Medical School, Armenise Building, D Amphitheater

210 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 

October 23 - 24, 2014

Farkas Auditorium, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 

Going forward, all opportunities will only be posted once in our newsletter. For the full posting and for other available positions, please visit our website. 

Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University

Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Science and Society, Duke University

Associate Director for Research
Center for Bioethics, Geisinger Health System

Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School