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2009 Symposium Agenda and Video Replays

April 10, 2009

8:30-9:00 Registration (Law School Subplaza)
Coffee and rolls served
9:00-9:15 Introduction
Michele Goodwin    (Watch Video Replay)
9:15-10:40 Panel: Selective Parenting: Whose Choice Matters?
Paul Lombardo    (Watch Video Replay)
Confronting ART: History, Rhetoric, and the Spectre of Eugenics
Sonu Bedi    (Watch Video Replay)
Sex-Selective Abortions and the Nature of Rights
Russell Korobkin    (Watch Video Replay)
Selling Eggs for Biomedical Research and Reproduction
Mary Anne Case    (Watch Video Replay)
Markets and Motives
10:45-12:15 Panel: Selective Birthing: Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis
Kimberly Mutcherson    (Watch Video Replay)
Making Mommies: Law, Preimplantation Diagnosis and the Complication of Pre-Motherhood
Susan Wolf    (Watch Video Replay)
Revolutionizing ART: Children First
12:30-1:30 Lunch and Keynote (Robins-Kaplan Concourse)
Debora Spar
As You Like It: Exploring the Limits of Parental Choice in Assisted Reproduction
1:40-3:40 Panel: What’s Love Got To Do With It: Markets, Race, Class, and Sexuality Dynamics
Lisa Ikemoto    (Watch Video Replay)
Reproductive Tourism: Equality and Identity Concerns in the Global Market for Fertility Services
Jose Gabilondo    (Watch Video Replay)
Reproduction By Same-Sex Couples: Some Social Costs of Privatizing Affectional Ties
Harriet Washington
Reluctant Immortals: Race, Class and Tissue "Ownership"
Dorothy A. Brown    (Watch Video Replay)
The Tax Treatment of "Making" Babies: A Race and Class Analysis
3:40-3:55 Closing Commentary
June Carbone    (Watch Video Replay)

Reception to Immediately Follow (Auerbach Commons)
Drinks and appetizers served