Center for Law and the Biosciences
Center for Law and the Biosciences
CLB New Student Welcome Reception: September 16, 2025
Room offsiteThe Stanford Law School Center for Law and the Biosciences will be hosting its annual New Student Welcome Reception – an event open to 1Ls and other new Stanford students with an interest in law and the biosciences – on Tuesday September 16, 2025 from 4:30-6:00pm. Please RSVP if you'll be coming!
CLB Lunch Talk: Professor Drew Endy on “Biosecurity in a Changing World”: January 8
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the CLB for a presentation on “Biosecurity in a Changing World" by Drew Endy, on Thursday, December 8, 2026 @ 12:45pm, SLS: Room 285. Drew Endy is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: February 2
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Law and the Biosciences for our first workshop seminar of the Winter Quarter. Emily Murphy, Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco, will present her research with a talk on "Nurturing Neural Rights."
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: February 9
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Law and the Biosciences for our second workshop seminar of the Winter Quarter. Jacob Sherkow, the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law at University of Illinois, will present his research with a talk on "Patent Infringement and Drug Labels."
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: February 23
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Law and the Biosciences for our third workshop seminar of the Winter Quarter. Sonia Suter, the Henry St. George Tucker III Dean's Research Professor of Law at George Washington University, will present her research with a talk on “'Unborn Life' and the Law.”
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: March 2
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Law and the Biosciences for our fourth workshop seminar of the Winter Quarter. Ari Ezra Waldman, Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine, will present his research with a talk on “Interrogating Technical Expertise.”
CLB Lunch Talk: Professor Ruth Lathi on “The Ethical and Legal Minefield of Assisted Reproduction”: March 3
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Law and the Biosciences for a presentation on the “The Ethical and Legal Minefield of Assisted Reproduction" by Ruth Lathi, MD, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 @ 12:45pm, SLS: Room 285. Dr. Ruth Lathi is an Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility) at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: March 9
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Law and the Biosciences for our fifth and final workshop seminar of the Winter Quarter. Vardit Ravitsky, the President and CEO of The Hastings Center for Bioethics and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, will present her research with a talk on "Prenatal Testing: From Autonomy to Eugenics."
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: April 7
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the CLB for our first workshop seminar of the Spring Quarter. Rebecca Wolitz, Assistant Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, will present her research with a talk on “Shareholder Primacy’s Failed Guardrails and Access to Medications.”
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: April 14
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Law and the Biosciences for our second workshop seminar of the Spring Quarter. Teneille Brown, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, will present her research with a talk on “When Pedophiles Have Power: Mentalizing […]
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: April 21
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for Law and the Biosciences for our third workshop seminar of the Spring Quarter. Professor Alison Whelan from Georgia State University Law School will discuss her paper "Perinatal Palliative Care and Abortion".
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: April 28
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the CLB for our fourth workshop seminar of the Spring Quarter. Professor Kayte Spector-Bagdady, George E. Wantz Professor of Bioethics and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School, will discuss her research with a talk on "Identifying Identifiability: Normative Standards to Inform Novel Predictive Risk Analysis for […]
CLB Law and Biosciences Workshop Seminar: May 5
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the CLB for our final workshop seminar of the Spring Quarter. Shelly Simana, Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School will present her paper "Genetic Continuity: Beyond Procreation and Parenthood".
CLB Lunch Talk: Professor Calvin Ho on Regulating Agentic AI in Healthcare: May 27
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the CLB for a presentation by Professor Calvin Ho on "Rethinking the Duality of Autonomy and Paternalism in a Rights-Based Approach to the Regulation of Agentic AI in Healthcare," on Wednesday, May 27, 2026 @ 12:45pm, SLS: Room 285. Dr. Calvin Ho is an Associate Professor at Monash Law School, and is a Fellow […]