Roundtable Schedule
The University of Texas School of Law
May 8-9, 2017
Monday, May 8
Getting Pregnant
- Jody L. Madeira, "Terminating the Paper Trail: Evaluating the Efficacy of a Multimedia Informed Consent Application in Reproductive Medicine"
Commentator: Naomi R. Cahn - John A. Robertson, "The Convergence of the Twain: Rethinking the 14 Day Rule for Embryo Research and Viability as a Limit to Abortion"
Commentator: I. Glenn Cohen - Sonia M. Suter, "The Tyranny of Choice"
Commentator: John A. Robertson
Abortion, Pregnancy, and Embryo Research Issues
- Radhika Rao, "Abortion"
Commentator: Rachel Rebouché - Michele Goodwin, "Abortion: A Woman's Private Choice"
Commentator: Lynn E. Blais - Laurence B. McCullough, "Reasoning from the Impermissible Use of Court Orders to Defeat Beneficence-Based Ethical Obligations of Pregnant Women to the Fetal Patient is Both Invalid and Unsound"
Commentator: John A. Robertson
Special Short Feature
- Regina Tamés, Documentary Film on Tabasco Surrogacy
Tuesday, May 9
Disclosure, Adoption, and Surrogacy
- Naomi R. Cahn, "Connecting with Identity Rights"
Commentator: I. Glenn Cohen - Rachel Rebouché, "Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing and Surrogacy Contracts"
Commentator: Jody L. Madeira - Pamela Laufer-Ukeles, "Reconsidering the Interplay of Money and Adoption: Open 'Kinship' Adoption as a New Paradigm"
Commentator: Michele Goodwin - Debra Wilson, "Enforcing Criminal Prohibitions on Surrogacy Arrangements"
Commentator: Sonia M. Suter
Other Surrogacy issues
- April Hovav, "The Paradox of Altruism: How Tensions between Love and Money are Resolved in the Mexican Surrogacy Market"
Commentator: Radhika Rao - Amy Speier, "Information Sources for International Surrogacy: Legal and Bodily Intimacies of Global Reproductive Travel"
Commentator: April Hovav - Sally Whelan and Ayesha Chatterjee, "Surrogacy360"
Commentator: Michele Goodwin - Courtney Cahill, "Perfecting Procreation"
Commentator: Michele Goodwin
Directions to University of Texas Law
From the AT&T Center Hotel
If you take a cab from the AT&T Hotel to the Law School, Trinity St. is the one-way back entrance to the Law School. Upon leaving the hotel, make a U-turn and travel north to 21st St. Turn right on 21st St., then follow the road to the Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium on San Jacinto Blvd. Turn left on San Jacinto Blvd. Turn right on 23rd St. (the end of the stadium), then immediately turn left on Trinity St (past the small guardhouse). Follow Trinity St. Up the hill, past the Texas Memorial Museum, then past the parking garage and lot on the left-hand side. The Law School complex is on Trinity St., just past the parking lot. Enter the complex between the newer white building to the left and the older building to the right. Signs will be posted to guide you to the Sheffield Room. You will enter the Law School at what appears to be ground level, but is actually the 2nd floor (on which the Sheffield room is located). Upon entering the building’s Susman Godfrey Atrium, you should see a map to the Sheffield Room there in the Atrium (on a concrete pillar to your right). If you do not see the map, head straight ahead thru the Atrium and pass the Communication Center desk (on your right). Then turn right and proceed all the way to the end of the hallway (pass the Tom Clark Lounge on your left). The Sheffield Room will be the last room on your left, before you enter the Outdoor Breezeway.
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From Dean Keeton St.
Dean Keeton St. is at the front entrance to the Law School. Go up the stairs that are visible from the street, as they lead directly to the 2nd floor Susman Godfrey Atrium (on which the Sheffield room is located). Upon entering the building, go left, and proceed all the way to the end of the hallway. The Sheffield Room will be the last room on your left, before you enter the Outdoor Breezeway.
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Lynn E. Blais
Leroy G. Denman, Jr. Regents Professor in Real Property LawDirector, Supreme Court Clinic
The University of Texas School of Law
Commentator
Courtney Cahill
Donald Hinkle Professor of LawFlorida State University College of Law
Perfecting Procreation
Naomi R. Cahn
Harold H. Greene Professor of LawThe George Washington University Law School
Connecting with Identity Rights
Ayesha Chatterjee
Program ManagerOur Bodies Ourselves Global Initiative
Surrogacy360, Co-presented with Sally Whelan
I. Glenn Cohen
Faculty DirectorThe Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Harvard Law School
Commentator
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Chancellor's Professor of LawDirector, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Abortion: A Woman's Private Choice
April Hovav
Graduate Student of SociologyUniversity of Southern California
Intimacy and Commercialization in Mexican Surrogacy
Pamela Laufer-Ukeles
Professor of LawUniversity of Dayton School of Law
Reconsidering the Interplay of Money and Adoption: Open 'Kinship' Adoption as a New Paradigm
Jody L. Madeira
Professor of LawLouis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Perfecting the Paper Trail: Evaluating the Efficacy of a Multimedia Informed Consent Application in Reproductive Medicine
Laurence B. McCullough
Dalton Tomlin Chair, Center for Medical Ethics and Health PolicyBaylor College of Medicine
Reasoning from the Impermissible Use of Court Orders to Defeat Beneficence-Based Ethical Obligations of Pregnant Women to the Fetal Patient is Both Invalid and Unsound
Radhika Rao
Professor of LawUniversity of California, Hastings College of the Law
Comparative Abortion Law
Rachel Rebouché
Associate Professor of LawTemple University Beasley School of Law
Prenatal Diagnosis and Surrogacy Contracts
John A. Robertson
Vinson & Elkins ChairThe University of Texas School of Law
The Convergence of the Twain: Rethinking the 14 Day Rule for Embryo Research and Viability as a Limit to Abortion
Amy Speier
Assistant Professor of Sociology & AnthropologyUniversity of Texas at Arlington
Information Sources for International Surrogacy: Legal and Bodily Intimacies of Global Reproductive Travel
Regina Tamés
Executive DirectorGrupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE, Information Group on Reproductive Choice)
Documentary Film on Tabasco Surrogacy
Sally Whelan
Co-Founder and Program DirectorOur Bodies Ourselves Global Initiative
Surrogacy360, Co-presented with Ayesha Chatterjee
Debra Wilson
Associate Professor of LawDirector for the LLM Program
University of Canterbury School of Law
Enforcing Criminal Prohibitions on Surrogacy Arrangements