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.

Annual Meeting Guide

The Division offers two Clerkship opportunities:

The first is a ten-week Spring/Summer Clerkship open by competition, reviewed on a rolling basis and offering students entering into their second or third year at an ABA-accredited law school the opportunity to design and complete a legal research and writing project in substantive areas of Division concern. If of acceptable quality, the Division may publish the resultant monograph. Applicants must be members of the ABA Law Student Division and may join at http://www.abanet.org/lsd/home.html.

The second is a Fall/Winter Clerkship and typically involves conducting project research and writing; developing information for directories and other databases; coordinating survey development, distribution and results; or editing manuscripts for publication. Applicants may be undergraduate or law school students depending on project need.

• NEW!! 2009-2010 Clerkship Flyer
  
  
• Shanda Moyers, a 3L at Stetson University School of Law, was the winner of the 2007-2008 PSD Clerkship. Shanda's research focused on the small segment of the long-term homeless population with the most pronounced barriers to self-sufficiency, primarily mental health and/or substance abuse issues. Her research evaluated the effectiveness of legislation and the use of the criminal justice system in combating street homelessness in comparison with the effectiveness of measures employing outreach and the Housing First model.
  
  
• 2005 Winner of the PSD Summer Internship
  
  
• Criminal Responsibility and Multiple Personality Defendants, a monograph produced by our 1997 Internship winner,
  Ms. Sabra Owens.
  
  
• Article by 2005 Winner, Dr. Andrea Blau, Mental & Physical Disability Reporter, Vol. 30, Issue 1

Also, see our article in the September issue of the ABA Law Student Division's Student Lawyer magazine. Visit the ABA Law Student Division at http://www.abanet.org/lsd/home.html.