Stuart Rome Lectures
About the Series
The Stuart Rome Lecture was established at Maryland in January 1984 to honor the memory of Stuart Rome, a prominent health law attorney, community activist, and art patron in the Baltimore area who died in 1983.
Upcoming Events in this Series
The 2026 Stuart Rome Lecture - The Disunited States of Health
Nicole Huberfeld, Professor of Health Law, Boston University School of Law
April 16th at 4:15pm. followed by a reception at 5:15pm.
Past Events in this Series
- The Financialization of Health Care - What Can be Done
Erin Fuse Brown, Brown University School of Public Health
November 7, 2024
Watch The Financialization of Health Care on YouTube - Implementing Justice in Research
Leslie Wolf, Georgia State University College of Law
March 30, 2023
Watch Implementing Justice in Research on YouTube - How Economics Fails Health Law
Allison Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania Law School
October 24, 2019 - Drug Pricing: Problems and Prospects
Aaron Kesselheim, Harvard Medical School
May 2018
Learn More about Drug Pricing: Problems and Prospects - Amplification, AI, and Healthcare's New Iron Triangle
Nicholas Terry, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
May 2017
Learn More about Amplification, AI, and Healthcare's New Iron Triangle - The Challenges of the Affordable Care Act in the Courts, the Congress and the States
Abbee Gluck, Yale Law School
December 2014
Watch the Challenges of the Affordable Care Act in the Courts on YouTube - Imaging the Brain, Changing Minds: Chronic Pain Neuroimaging and the Law
Hank Greely, Stanford Law School
April 2014
Watch Imaging the Brain, Changing Minds on YouTube - Reproductive Justice: The New Constitutional Battlefront
Michele Goodwin, Georgetown University Law Center
November 2012
Learn More about Reproductive Justice - The Virtues of Pragmatism in Drug Policy
Richard Bonnie, University of Virginia
November 2008
Learn More about the Virtues of Pragmatism in Drug Policy - The Role of Medicare in Medical Malpractice Reform
William Sage, Texas A&M University School of Law
November 2005
Learn More about the Role of Medicare in Medical Malpractice Reform - The Elimination of Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Focusing on What is Real & True in Medicaid's Fortieth Year
Sara Rosenbaum, George Washington University Medical Center, School of Public Health and Health Services
March 2005
Learn More about The Elimination of Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Focusing on What is Real & True in Medicaid's Fortieth Year - Medicare at 40: A Mid-Life Crisis?
Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of CMS and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for President Obama
October 2004
Learn More about Medicare at 40: A Mid-Life Crisis? - Knocking Against the Rocks: Evaluating Institutional Practices and the African American Boy
Theresa Glennon, Temple University Beasley School of Law
October 2002
Learn More about Knocking Against the Rocks: Evaluating Institutional Practices and the African American Boy - Biological Truths and Legal Fictions
Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin
May 1998
Learn More about Biological Truths and Legal Fictions - The Constitutional Right to Privacy: Similarities and Differences Between Abortion and Assisted Suicide
Sylvia A. Law, New York University
April 1995
Learn More about The Constitutional Right to Privacy: Similarities and Differences Between Abortion and Assisted Suicide - Pregnancy and AIDS
Martha Field, Harvard Law School
May 1995
Learn More about Pregnancy and AIDS - The Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemic in the Era of AIDS: Reflections on Public Health, Law, and Society
Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University Law Center
April 1993
Learn More about The Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemic in the Era of AIDS