Archive for March, 2007
Varmus @ Yale
Date: 3/26/2007 – 3/27/2007
Title: Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lecture: Freeing Scientific Culture
Speaker: Dr. Harold Varmus
Location: Yale Law School
Presentation Type: Quicktime video (.mov)
Note: only the 3/26 lecture was filmed.
From the announcement:
Dr. Harold Varmus, president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will deliver the 2006-2007 Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lectures at Yale Law School on Monday, March 26, and Tuesday, March 27.
The Monday lecture, open to the public, is titled “Freeing Scientific Culture: The Fight to Provide Public Access to Results the Public Finances.” In it, Dr. Varmus will draw on his personal experience as co-founder of The Public Library of Science, a publisher of open access journals in biology and medicine, to talk about the reasons for, and obstacles to, current efforts to make the scientific literature a public resource. He’ll touch on the roles of funding agencies, governments, scientific societies, publishing companies, information technology, copyright law, patterns of behavior in academia and the financing of journals.
This lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127. A reception will follow in the Alumni Reading Room.
The Tuesday lecture, limited to the Yale Law School community, is titled “How the Law Affects Contemporary Cancer Research: A Personal View” and will be grounded in Dr. Varmus’ experiences as a cancer researcher.
“Among the major issues I raise,” said Dr. Varmus, are the ways that concerns about privacy and HIPAA rules limit important efforts to connect genetic data with clinical information; and the conflicts—and current battles in the courts—over access to drugs that may be described in overly optimistic ways, with implications for patient safety and the conduct of clinical trials.”
This lecture will be held at 12:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge.
Dr. Varmus has served as the president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center since January 2000. He is former Director of the National Institutes of Health. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School, where his work with Dr. J. Michael Bishop and others earned many awards, including a Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer.
Dr. Varmus has authored more than 300 scientific papers and four books and has been an advisor to the Federal government, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, and many academic institutions.
He holds a B.A. in English literature from Amherst College, a master’s degree in English from Harvard University and an M.D. from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship, established in memory of Arthur Allen Leff, Southmayd Professor of Law, brings to Yale Law School people whose work in other disciplines illuminates the study of law and legal institutions.
March 26, 2007
From the archives: Eben Moglen @ Santa Clara (3/26/07)
Date: 3/26/2007
Title: The Virtues and Vices of Open Source Software
Speaker(s): Eben Moglen
Location: Santa Clara
Presentation Type(s): audio (mp3)
Moglen is Professor, Columbia Law School; General Counsel, Free Software Foundation; Chairman, Software Freedom Law Center; Principle Drafter of the General Public License
This event explored the issues surrounding the two principal software development models:
The commercial model, where customers pay developers for their work, vs the Open Source model, where developers contribute to the commons.
This is Episode #2 of Santa Clara’s High Tech Law Institute Podcast (iTunes).
March 26, 2007
From the Archives: Chief Justice John Roberts @ Texas
Date: 3/23/2007
Title: 2007 Tex Lezar Memorial Lecture
Speaker(s): Chief Justice John Roberts
Location: University of Texas
Presentation type: streaming video (Windows Media)
March 23, 2007
Justice Ginsberg @ IU-Indianapolis
Date: 3/8/2007
Title: Women and the Law Class
Speaker(s): United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Location: Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis
Presentation Type: streaming video (Windows Media)
March 8, 2007
From the archives: Google in Court (3/8/07)
Date: 3/8/2007
Title: Google in Court: Copyright and the Universal Library (1:53:01)
Speaker(s): Oren Bracha, Hannibal Travis, Diane Zimmerman
Location: Wayne State University
Presentation Type: streaming video (Real Player)
[From Derek Bambauer at Info/Law]
March 8, 2007
Baum Lecture @ Illinois
Date: 3/5/2007
Title: When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Worsening Organ Shortage, What It Means for Seniors, and What To Do About It
Speaker: Dr. Sally L. Satel
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type: Streaming video (Windows Media Player)
Dean Heidi Hurd introduces Richard Kaplan, who teaches and writes on Elder Law at the College. Dr. Satel, from the American Enterprise Institute, speaks on the ethical issues regarding organ transplants for the elderly.
March 5, 2007
