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Jessica Berg, J.D. – Professor of Law and Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Law |
| Friday February 10, 2012 12:30-1:30 p.m. Dampeer Room Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University Dear Colleagues: We continually hear about an obesity “epidemic.” Aside from concerns about health, worries about the costs of treatment have now interested many other policy-makers in ideas about how the government could reduce obesity. But can governments do that much? Join us this week for a fascinating duscussion with Jessica Berg, Professor of Law and Biomedical Ethics. Very best regards, About Our Guest… Jessica Berg joined the school of law faculty in 1999 after serving as the Director of Academic Affairs and Secretary of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs and Section Director of Professionalism at the American Medical Association. Before that, she was a Scholar in Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a Fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Professor Berg teaches Public Health Law, FDA Law, Bioethics & Law, and Human Subjects Regulation. She has a JD from Cornell University, and an MPH degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Her recent publications include “Putting the Community Back Into the Community Benefit Standard” 43 Georgia Law Review 1 (2009); Making all the Children Above Average: Ethical and Regulatory Concerns for Pediatricians in Pediatric Enhancement Research, 48(5) Clinical Pediatrics 472 (2009); “Of Elephants and Embryos: A proposed framework for legal personhood,” 59 Hastings Law Journal 369 (2007); Owning Persons: The Application of Property Theory to Embryos and Fetuses” 40 Wake Forest Law Review 159 (2005). Where We Meet The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convene each Friday when classes are in session in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. The Dampeer Room is on the second floor of the library. If you get off the elevators, turn right, pass the first bank of tables, and turn right again. Occasionally we need to use a different room; that will always be announced in the weekly e-mails. Parking Possibilities The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library. Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers: February 17: Is Childhood Obesity a New Form of Child Abuse? David Crampton, Associate Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Science February 24: Telling the Players Without a Scorecard: China’s Leadership Transition. Paul Schroeder, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science March 2: Does the Fire Department Have a Hose? The IMF and World Bank in the Financial Crisis. Kathryn C. Lavelle, Ellen and Dixon Long Associate Professor of Political Science March 9: Germany and the European Union. Ken Ledford, Associate Professor of History March 16: Spring Break – No Discussion March 23: TBA March 30: Just Do It or Just Say No? The Politics of Sex Education. Mark Carl Rom, Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy, Georgetown University April 6: TBA April 13: Russia’s Presidential Election. Andrew Barnes, Associate Professor of Political Science, Kent State University April 20: TBA April 27: TBA |
