The Rise and Fall of the Measles Mumps Rubella Litigation: An Anglo-American Comparison
1 April 2011
Dr. Richard Goldberg, King's College, University of Aberdeen聽School of Law, gave an insightful, thought-provoking talk on the various legal implications surrounding the controversy of the MMR vaccine on autism, both in the United Kingdom and the USA. The lunchtime conference was well-attended and the Q&A session ranged across many ideas.
Dr. Goldberg was visiting the Faculty for part of the month of April 2011. He is a specialist of product liability, medical and pharmaceutical law, IP, and tort and is widely published in these areas.
About the speaker
Prior to taking up a Readership at the University of Aberdeen, Dr. Goldberg taught at the London School of Economics, King's College London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, and the University of Birmingham.聽He researches in the areas of product liability, tort law, intellectual property, medical law and pharmaceutical law.聽His book,聽Causation and Risk in the Law of Torts: Scientific Evidence and Medicinal Product Liability (Hart, 1999) was nominated for the SPTL Book Prize.聽He is the聽co-editor of聽Pharmaceutical Medicine, Biotechnology and European Law聽(Cambridge University Press, 2001),聽co-author of聽Product Liability聽(Oxford University Press, 2004),聽and聽editor of聽Perspectives on Causation聽(Hart, 2010).聽 Dr. Goldberg is a Visiting Professor at 麻豆区's Faculty of Law, funded by a Carnegie Research Grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
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The Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project
2 November 2010
On November 2, 2010, Dr. Ann C. Macaulay, Professor of Family Medicine, 麻豆区 Department of Family Medicine, and Director of Participatory Research at 麻豆区 (PRAM), and Morgan Kahentonni Phillips, a community researcher in the Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research, did a joint presentation on a health project that involved developing and maintaining research partnerships with Aboriginal communities and organizations in Kahnawake.
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