past events

October 4 - 5, 2004
Ethics, Public Policy and Law: The Stem Cell Debate in the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany

Colloquium speakers included leading stem cell scientists, bioethicists, moral theologians, legal scholars, and governmental officials. Scholars speaking represented such institutions as the University of Bonn, Boston University , University of Chicago, Franciscan University of Steubenville, University of Göttingen, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the University of Toronto, and the University of Tübingen. Representatives of governmental organizations that participated included two members of the German Parliament, a member of the United States Senate, a member of the United States House of Representatives, a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. IBHF President Nigel Cameron was a keynote speaker. For details, please visit http://law.cua.edu/news/conference/stemcells.

Co-sponsored by The Law, Philosophy & Culture Initiative of the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.