About the Series

In 2020, the Law and Health Care Program initiated the Rothenberg Health Care Law and Policy Speaker Series, named for Karen H. Rothenberg, JD, MPA, the Marjorie Cook Professor Emeritus of Law, founding director of the Law and Health Care Program, and former dean of the University of Maryland School of Law (1999-2009). This series, established with funding from the Karen Rothenberg and Jeffrey Seltzer Law & Health Care Program Endowment, focuses on contemporary issues in health care law and policy. Thanks to its virtual format, the Rothenberg Series has enabled the Maryland Carey Law to bring leading health law and policy experts, scholars, and practitioners together with attendees who teach and practice in the field, whether they are program alumni or friends in Baltimore or from across the world. We hope you will join us for the next dynamic discussion of emerging issues in the field of health care law and policy, and if you missed any of our wonderful guests, you can watch past events below.

FDA’s Curtailed Authority to Regulate Lab-Developed Tests

Reshma Ramachandran, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Thursday, April 30th, 2026
4:15 - 5:15pm

Register for FDA’s Curtailed Authority

• The Future of Food and Nutrition Regulation (Video)
  Peter Lurie, President and Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest
  Thursday, January 29th, 2026
• FDA's Crisis is Everyone's Crisis:  The Past, Present and Future of FDA Reform (Video)
  Patricia J. Zettler, John W. Bricker Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
  Thursday, November 20, 2025
• Regulating Health Technologies in a Post-FDA World (Video)
  Rachel Sachs, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
  Thursday, September 11, 2025
• Rigid Binaries: Discrimination & Sex-Based Classification in Health Care (Video)
  Anya Marino, Chief Strategic Programs Officer, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)
      Founding director of the LGBTQI+ Equality Clinic, Maryland Carey
  Wednesday, April 9, 2025
• Disability Discrimination in Health After COVID (Video)
  Samuel Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan
  Thursday, March 27, 2025
• Expecting Inequity: Race, Class, and Reproductive Justice
  (Co-Hosted by the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law)
  Khiara M. Bridges, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
  Thursday, November 14, 2024
• From Legal Segregation to the Affordable Care Act:  How Law Can Make a Difference (Video)
  Sara Rosenbaum, Professor of Health Law & Policy, George Washington University
  Thursday, October 10, 2024
• The Intersection of AI and Healthcare (Video)
  Vardit Ravitsky, President, The Hastings Center
  Thursday, January 18, 2024 
  
• Three Narratives of Mental Health Chatbots: Salvation, Deception, and Harm Reduction (Video)
  Frank Pasquale, Professor, Cornell Tech & Cornell Law School
  Thursday, February 29, 2024 
• AI, Healthcare & Privacy
  Nita A. Farahany, Duke Law
  Thursday, November 9, 2023
• Medical AI: Regulatory and Ethical Challenges (Video)
  I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School
  Thursday, September 21, 2023 
• FDA Preemption, Judicial Activism & Public Health Implications
  Ameet Sarpatwari, Harvard Medical School
  Thursday, April 20, 2023
• Against Silence: Doctors’ Risks, Rights, and Ethical Obligations When Providing Abortion Information (Video)
  Michelle Oberman, Katharine and George Alexander Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
  Thursday, February 9, 2023 
• A Phoenix from the Ashes? Reproductive Justice in a World without Roe (Video)
  Kimberly Mutcherson, Dean & Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
  Thursday, October 6, 2022 
• Religious Liberty and Reproduction (Video)
  Elizabeth Sepper, Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
  Thursday, November 3, 2022 
• Structural Injustice in Health Care (Video)
  Ruth R. Faden, PhD, MPH, Berman Institute Founder; Core Faculty; Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. 
  Thursday, March 31, 2022  
• Emerging Issues in Health Law & Policy (Video)
  Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
  Thursday, February 17, 2022
• The Reproduction of Genetic Race (Video)
  Lisa C. Ikemoto, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor, University of California, Davis School of Law
  Wednesday, October 27, 2022
• The Forefront of Genomics: Interplay of Opportunities and Societal Considerations (Video)
  Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health
  Wednesday, October 6, 2021
• Uncertain Terms: Consumer Privacy in the World of Digital Health Tech
  Jessica L. Roberts, Professor of Law, Leonard H. Childs Chair in Law, Professor of Medicine, and Director of Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center
  March 30, 2021
• Eradicating Systemic Racism in the Government's Pandemic Response (Video)
  Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity Center for Health Law Studies and Professor at the Saint Louis University School of Law
  February 23, 2021
• The Politics of Public Health Regulation
  Joshua M. Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Challenges in Equitable Allocation of SARS CoV-2 Vaccine (Video)
  Professor R. Alta Charo, the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and member of the National Academies’ committee that published the Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine
  November 2, 2020