Category Archives: Law and Science

European Precautionary Impasse: Politics of Scientific Decision-Making—Brussels, Belgium

The University of Kent School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research and the European Journal of Risk Regulation present Breaking through the European Precautionary Impasse? The Politics of Scientific…

Call for Papers: Journal of Law and the Biosciences

Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB), “the first fully open access peer-reviewed legal journal focused on the advances at the intersection of law and the biosciences,” is actively soliciting…

Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law—Champaign, IL

The Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (SEAL) holds its fifteenth scholarship conference April 4-5, 2014, at the University of Illinois College of Law. The call for papers deadline was…

Inclusive & Interprofessional: Bioethics & Humanities?—

The American Society for Bioethics + Humanities (ASBH) holds its 16th Annual Meeting Oct. 16-19, 2014. The theme is “Inclusive & Interprofessional: Bioethics & Humanities?” The call for proposals will…

Int’l Conference on Forensic Inference & Statistics—Leiden, Netherlands

9th International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics (ICFIS2014) will take place August 19-22, 2014, at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Abstracts are due by Feb. 20, 2014. Themes for which…

Blinding Science—Cambridge, MA

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University presents Blinding Science, a multidisciplinary symposium to examine potential solutions to institutional corruption that use blinding: the strategy of concealing…

Fellowships in Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics—Cambridge, MA

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School invites applications for academic fellowships in 2014-16. Applications will be accepted starting September 16, 2013. Completed…

Post-Doc Fellowships, Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Genetics—New York, NY

The Center for Research on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic and Behavioral Genetics at Columbia University anticipates the availability of post-doctoral fellowship positions to begin September 2013….

Call for Papers: RULES 2013 – Krakow, Poland

The Department of Legal Theory of Faculty of Law and Administration of Jagiellonian University has organized an international conference entitled RULES 2013 to be held September 27-29, 2013. “The idea of…

Water & Health: Where Science Meets Policy — Chapel Hill, NC

The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health presents 2013 Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy Oct. 14-18, 2013. It “will…