Consortium on Law and Values Nonprofit Org. in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences Joint Degree Program U.S. Postage in Law, Health & the Life Sciences PAID Mpls., MN Mondale Hall, Suite N140 Permit No. 155 University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Annual Report Minneapolis, MN 55455 2003-2004 612-625-0055 phone 612-624- 9143 fax www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu www.jointdegree.umn.edu Highlights from 2003–2004: • New Presidential • Faegre & Benson Interdisciplinary Initiative Lecture Series on human subjects research • Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology • Lunch Series on to be launched agricultural and environmental ethics • 2 new degree combinations with • Intellectual Property Natural Resources Science Rights symposium and Management • Children’s • 2 new Consortium Environmental members Health conference • Deinard Memorial Lecture • 10 intramural Series on Law & Medicine grants awarded inaugurated • 25 JDP applicants • Visiting Scholar: • 7 new JDP enrollees Prof. William Sage, JD, MD • 1 more JDP graduate 2003–2004 Events Monday, September 22, 2003 Thursday, February 26, 2004 Lunch Series on the Societal Implications Deinard Memorial Lecture on Law & Medicine of the Life Sciences Prof. Troyen Brennan, Harvard University Prof. Dale Jamieson, Carleton College “The Crisis in Patient Safety and “Science, Ethics, and the Animal Malpractice: Fixing Medicine and Law” Protection Movement” Commentators: Prof. Roby Thompson, University of Minnesota, and Dr. Carol Ley, 3M Wednesday, October 29, 2003 Faegre & Benson Lecture Series Wednesday, March 10, 2004 on Law, Health & the Life Sciences Faegre & Benson Lecture Series Prof. Jeremy Sugarman, Duke University on Law, Health & the Life Sciences “Solutions to the Crisis in Human Subjects Dr. David Korn, Association Research: From Pillar to Post?” of American Medical Colleges Commentators: Profs. Jeffrey Kahn, “Financial Conflicts of Interest Cathy Jordan, University of Minnesota in Biomedical Research” Commentators: Profs. Norman Bowie, Monday, November 17, 2003 David Hamilton, University of Minnesota Lunch Series on the Societal Implications of the Life Sciences Friday, April 2, 2004 Prof. David Ehrenfeld, Rutgers University Annual Conference “Globalization and Biodiversity” “Environmental Threats to Children’s Health: Legal and Policy Challenges” Wednesday, December 3, 2003 Faegre & Benson Lecture Series Tuesday, April 13, 2004 on Law, Health & the Life Sciences Lunch Series on the Societal Implications Prof. Haavi Morreim, of the Life Sciences University of Tennessee Prof. Marion Nestle, New York University “Medical Devices: A Different Twist on the “The Ironic Politics of Obesity” Ethics and Law of Research Protections” Commentators: Ken Liebman, Esq., Faegre & Benson, and Prof. Susan Foote, Thursday, April 29, 2004 University of Minnesota Annual Symposium “Intellectual Property Rights for the For additional copies of this report Public Good: Obligations of U.S. Universities or to order other publications Tuesday, February 10, 2004 to Developing Countries” (past annual reports, program catalogs, Lunch Series on the Societal Implications brochures, or conference materials) of the Life Sciences please contact us: Prof. Eric Freyfogle, University of Illinois “Ecology, Ethics, and Private Land” Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences Mondale Hall, Suite N140 University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 625-0055 phone (612) 624-9143 fax [email protected] [email protected] Annual Report 2003–2004 Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences Table of Contents 2 Letter from the Director and Chair 3 Update on the Joint Degree Program and Consortium Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences 5 Students, Recruitment, and Scholarships 6 Student Honors & Achievements 7 Joint Degree Program Proseminar 8 Joint Degree Program Faculty and Governing Committee 15 Joint Degree Program Advisory Board 18 Deinard Memorial Lecture Series on Law & Medicine 18 www.jointdegree.umn.edu Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences 19 Consortium Members 21 Presidential Interdisciplinary Initiative on Law and Values 22 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 23 Consortium Requests for Proposals (RFPs) 24 Annual Symposium 25 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants 25 www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu Audience at Prof. Eric Freyfogle’s Lunch Series lecture. Co-sponsored Activities 26 Executive Committee 27 Faegre & Benson Lecture Series on Law, Health & the Life Sciences 28 Lunch Series on the Societal Implications of the Life Sciences 29 Annual Conference 29 LAW/VALUES + LIFE SCIENCES Newsletter 30 Visiting Scholar: Prof. William Sage, JD, MD Dr. Ronald Cantrell, Shared Staff & Support Director General of the International 31 Staff Rice Research Institute, 32 Support & Acknowledgements speaks at the symposium on intellectual property rights. Prof. J. Routt Reigart, Medical University of South Carolina, and Prof. Peter Nathanielsz, New York University Medical Copyright 2004 © School, conversing during a break at the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment “Environmental Threats to Children’s & the Life Sciences and Joint Degree Program in Law, Health” conference. Health & the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota. Photography by Tim Rummelhoff, Daniel Kieffer, Terence Brashear, Suzanne Livingston, and Tom Foley. Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences Annual Report 1 Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences 2003–2004 Letter from the Director and Chair Dear Colleagues: The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences was profoundly honored to be named one of 8 new Presidential Interdisciplinary Initiatives this year. The President’s increased commitment to the Consortium allows us to expand our work and move to the next level of excellence. Through the Presidential Initiative, we will take on the following projects in the coming year: • launching the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal edited by University of Minnesota faculty and Law students; • bringing a Visiting Senior Scholar to campus for one semester each year to teach and share ideas on the societal implications of the life sciences; Prof. Susan Wolf, Director and Chair. • increasing the capacity to seek and manage externally funded grants; • directly supporting work on the implications of the life sciences by Consortium member centers or graduate/professional programs participating in the Joint Degree Program; and • continuing all programming and events, bringing to campus eminent scholars and national leaders in these fields. Both the Consortium and Joint Degree Program saw continued success in 2003-04. The Consortium added 2 member centers in 2003-04: Prof. Mary Jo Kreitzer’s Center for Spirituality and Healing and Profs. James Anderson’s and Deborah Swackhamer’s Water Resources Center. Our new Executive Committee allowed us to take better advantage of Consortium and Joint Degree Program expertise by broadening leadership of our intellectual work. We also hosted our first visiting scholar, Prof. William Sage from Columbia University. We submitted 3 grant proposals, while working on an NIH grant on the implications of haplotype mapping of the human genome for social categories of race and ethnicity. The Joint Degree Program welcomed 7 new students in Fall 2003 and will welcome 6 more in Fall 2004 for a total of 22 students. We added a JD/MS and JD/PhD with the graduate program in Natural Resources Science & Management. We now offer 21 degree combinations and a choice of 3 graduate minors: Bioethics, Human Genetics, and Bioinformatics. Our programming made dramatic advances as well. In 2003-04 we presented a spectacular roster of speakers Prof. Jim Chen, Director of Special Projects. on challenges in human subjects research in our Faegre & Benson Lecture Series on Law, Health & the Life Sciences. Our Lunch Series on the Societal Implications of the Life Sciences focused on agricultural and environmental ethics. We also offered a national conference on “Environmental Threats to Children’s Health: Legal and Policy Challenges.” Our annual symposium was a full-day event on “Intellectual Property Rights for the Public Good: Obligations of U.S. Universities to Developing Countries.” And with the Center for Bioethics, we launched the new Deinard Memorial Lecture Series on Law & Medicine. We are particularly proud that our programming is now yielding scholarly publications, including published symposia from both the conference and full-day symposium. In 2004-05 we will again present 10 events: 3 presentations in the Lecture Series addressing genomics, stem cell research, and biotechnology; 4 presentations in the Lunch Series focusing on medical devices and innovation; a conference on science and politics; an open-source symposium; and a second Deinard Memorial Lecture on Law & Medicine. The Consortium and Joint Degree Program are now well established. Both programs enjoy a national reputation. Thanks to Presidential Initiative funding, we are moving to a new level of productivity. Our excitement is tremendous as we tackle what remain the most challenging issues of our time, those issues at the intersection, of law, ethics, policy, and the life