Rothenberg Speaker Series

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.

Check back soon for more upcoming events!

• The Intersection of AI and Healthcare
  Vardit Ravitsky, President, The Hastings Center
  Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 4:30PM EST
  Watch on YouTube
• Three Narratives of Mental Health Chatbots: Salvation, Deception, and Harm Reduction
  Frank Pasquale
  Professor, Cornell Tech & Cornell Law School
  Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 4:30PM EST
  Watch on YouTube
• AI, Healthcare & Privacy
  Nita A. Farahany, Duke Law
  Thursday, November 9, 2023
• Medical AI: Regulatory and Ethical Challenges
  I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School
  Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 4:30PM EST
  Watch here.
• FDA Preemption, Judicial Activism & Public Health Implications
  Ameet Sarpatwari, Harvard Medical School
  Thursday, April 20, 2023
  Watch here.
• Against Silence: Doctors’ Risks, Rights, and Ethical Obligations When Providing Abortion Information
  Michelle Oberman, Katharine and George Alexander Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
  Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 4:30PM Eastern
  Watch here.
• A Phoenix from the Ashes? Reproductive Justice in a World without Roe
  Kimberly Mutcherson, Dean & Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
  Thursday, October 6, 2022
  Watch here.
• Religious Liberty and Reproduction
  Elizabeth Sepper, Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
  Thursday, November 3, 2022
  Watch here
• 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 at 4PM Eastern
  Watch on YouTube.
• Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, Just Health
  Thursday, February 17, 2022
  Watch on YouTube.
• The Reproduction of Genetic Race
  Lisa C. Ikemoto, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor, University of California, Davis School of Law
  Wednesday, October 27, 2022
  Watch on YouTube.
• The Forefront of Genomics: Interplay of Opportunities and Societal Considerations
  Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health
  Wednesday, October 6, 2021
  Watch on YouTube.
• 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, Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston Law Center
  March 30, 2021
  Find a recap of this event here.
• Eradicating Systemic Racism in the Government's Pandemic Response
  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
  Watch, or find a recap of this event here.
• 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
  Watch, or find a recap of this event here.
• Challenges in Equitable Allocation of SARS CoV-2 Vaccine
  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
  Watch on YouTube, or find a recap of this event here.