GW LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIA
This year, The George Washington Law Review will host two symposia addressing current legal topics of national significance.
Friday, November 2, 2007
“Conflicting Interests in Reproductive Autonomy and
Their Impact on New Technologies”
The Regulating Reproductive Technologies Symposium focuses on the regulation of new reproductive technologies. As technologies like in vitro fertilization, stem cell research, and genetic enhancement proliferate, they will test the boundaries between the state's right to regulate, even prohibit, them, and the societal benefits of and autonomy interests in accessing these technologies. These boundaries are unclear, especially in light of the Supreme Court's increasing deference to the state's interest in protecting potential life as clarified in the recent decision of Gonzales v. Carhart. The four panels of this one-day Symposium will bring together leading legal scholars in reproductive rights and constitutional law, sociological researchers, and representatives of the medical community, a think-tank, and the President's Council on Bioethics to discuss these issues.
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Thursday, October 11 and Friday, October 12, 2007
“Access to the Media — 1967 to 2007 and Beyond:
A Symposium Honoring Jerome A. Barron's Path-Breaking Article”
The Access to the Media symposium will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Professor Jerome Barron’s seminal article in the Harvard Law Review calling for an affirmative First Amendment right to access the press. The Access to the Media Symposium will be held on Thursday-Friday, October 11-12, 2007. Justice Breyer will open the event with remarks on Thursday, followed by four panels that will feature prominent scholars in fields of First Amendment, intellectual property, administrative, and comparative law. These panelists will seek to update the arguments made in Professor Barron’s article to the modern world with its proliferation of media and advent of the Internet.
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