Chair: Ellen F. Roseblum

Board of Governors:  Raymond J Werner

Staff:  Elizabeth M Yang

Committee Roster 

Annual Meeting Guide

For more information on the Committee and its activities, please contact us at American Bar Association, 740 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20005. Telephone us at 202/662-1694, 202/638-3844 (fax) or email us at bioethics@abanet.org.

The Clerkship is a unique program designed for law students to engage in an individualized public interest legal research and writing project in Washington, DC. In concert with Division attorneys and a law school faculty reviewer, a student will develop and complete a substantive legal monograph that may be published, if of a quality acceptable by the ABA. The Clerkship is unpaid. We encourage law students to incorporate the Clerkship into an externship/internship program at their law school and/or to seek supportive law school funding where needed.

2008-2009 Clerkship Flyer

For information about the Clerkship, please call 202/662-1691 or email cccoleman@staff.abanet.org.

Also, see our ad in the September issue of the Student Lawyer magazine.

The Special Committee meets twice a year and also sponsors and co-sponsors programming at ABA Midyear and Annual Meetings.

2007
The next meeting will take place at the 2007 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, for more information please contact the Special Committee at bioethics@abanet.org or 202/662-1694.

I Bought My Ticket, Why Can't I Fly: Public Safety Versus Personal Freedom
Saturday, August 11, 2007
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
City Room, Second Floor
Westin San Francisco Market Street
50 Third Street, San Francisco, California

Please join the Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law at a FREE CLE program, including I. Michael Greenberger, J.D., the Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland and a Professor at the School of Law, Anthony B. Iton, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Alameda County, California Health Officer, and Lane Porter, J.D., M.P.H., Law and Human Rights Advisor at Constella Futures. The program will examine emerging issues related to the intersection of public health and emergency response law. The recent tuberculosis case, involving international travel, highlights the difficulties of quarantine as well as the interdisciplinary nature of effectively managing public health emergencies and the importance of early communication and clear mandates and guidelines in assessing threats of global pandemics, bioterror or other such public health emergencies.

Panelists:
I. Michael Greenberger, J.D., Washington, DC
Anthony B. Iton, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Oakland, CA
Lane Porter, J.D., M.P.H., Washington, DC

Additional Sponsors:
Health Law Section
Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
Section of International Law

For more bioethics related programming at the 2007 ABA Annual Meeting, please refer to the 2007 Annual Meeting Guide to Bioethics Related Programs.

PAST PROGRAMS

2005
Making the Perfect Baby: The Promise and Peril of "Designer Babies"
Should prospective parents be able to change their children's genetic characteristics or predispositions? What are the appropriate roles of the medical and legal communities and the government in promoting or restricting parental choices? What isthecurrent landscape of the possibilities, realities, and economics of such alterations?

For more examples of bioethics related programming at past ABA meetings, please refer to the Special Committee's 2005 Annual Meeting Guide to Bioethics Related Programs.