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What Every Law Student Should Know about Cloning
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- Date:
- April 3, 2014
- Start:
- 11:45am
- End:
- 12:45pm
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- Location:
- TNH 2.123 (Beck Classroom)
- Event type:
- Panel Discussion / Speaker Series
Join the Texas Federalist Society Thursday, April 3rd, for free lunch and a great discussion on cloning led by Nikolas Nikas and UT Law Professor John A. Robertson.
Mr. Nikas is the co-founder, president, and general counsel of Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF), a pro-life public-interest legal and educational organization that advocates for the human right to life and the fundamental right of conscience throughout the United States and abroad.
Professor John A. Robertson holds the Vinson and Elkins Chair at The University of Texas School of Law at Austin. He has written and lectured widely on law and bioethical issues. He is the author of two books in bioethics The Rights of the Critically Ill (1983) and Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (1994), and numerous articles on reproductive rights, genetics, organ transplantation, and human experimentation. He has served on or been a consultant to many national bioethics advisory bodies, and is currently Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
- Specific audiences:
- Texas Law students
- Faculty
- Sponsored by:
- Texas Federalist Society
If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the sponsor listed above or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.