The Eighth Annual Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat

On January 12, 2024, the Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law hosted the Eighth Annual Health Law Works-in­ Progress Retreat. The annual retreat provides health law scholars an opportunity to share their work and exchange ideas in a friendly, informal setting. The Eighth Annual Retreat featured the following scholars and their respective works:

Ximena Benavides, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Associate at the Ethics, Politics and Economics Program, Yale Department of Political Science; Resident Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute of Global Health, "The Shadows of Sunshine Laws: The Political limitations of Transparency Policies In Drug Development"

Commentators: Jacob Elberg {Seton Hall University School of Law), Ehzabeth McCuskey (Boston University School of Law)

Zack Buck, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law, "Between Medicine and Money"

Commentators: Christina Ho (Rutgers Law School), Allison Hoffman (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)

Leah Fowler, Research Director and Research Assistant Professor, University of Houston Law Center, Max Helveston, Associate Professor of Law: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Strategic ln1tiat1ves, Faculty Director, Mary and Michael Jahans Health Law Institute, DePaul College of Law,  Zoe Robinson, Professor, The Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, "Influencer Speech-Torts"

Commentators: Thomas Healy (Seton Hall University School of Law); Cristina Tilley (University of Iowa College of Law)

Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law and Bioethics and Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Jurisprudence: Co-Director. Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, "Employers as Guardians of Public Health"

Commentators: Wendy Parmet (Northeastern University School of Law), Michael S. Sinha (St. Louis University School of Law)

Christopher Robertson, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law and Professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management (Secondary), Boston University School of Public Health, "How Systemic Discrimination In Funding for Gynecologic Surgery Contributes to Patient Injury and What the Law Can Do About It"

Commentators: Leslie Francis (University of Utah College of Law}, Maya Manian (American University Washington College of Law)

Ben Sundholm, Forrester Fellow, Tulane Law School, "Regulating Adaptive Black-Box Medicine"

Commentators: Anjali Deshmukh (Georgia State College of Law), Ana Santos Rutschman (Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law)