Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics
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| Type | Research & Policy Institute |
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| Established | December 2003 |
| Dean | John L. Carroll |
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David M. Smolin, director |
| Students | Kyle Newchek |
| Location | Birmingham, Alabama, United States |
| Publications | The Cumberland Law Review - co-publisher |
| Affiliations | Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Cumberland Law Review. |
| Website | cumberland |
The Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics is a bioethics, biotechnology, and biotechnology law research center of Cumberland School of Law located on the Samford University campus in Birmingham, Alabama. It is one of the few research centers of its kind at a United States law school, and, in conjunction with the Cumberland Law Review, the Center publishes an annual journal of scholarly works, which circulates in the United States and foreign countries.
The center was founded in December 2003 by David M. Smolin, who serves as its director.
The Center focuses its research and conferences on the ethical and legal implications of biotechnology and biotechnology law, rather than pursuing a general emphasis on the subject of bioethics or bioethics law like many other academic research centers. Its location within Birmingham places it in an emerging center for biotechnology research and commerce. Of primary importance for the Center, however, is generating law review articles on emerging biotechnology issues, which is often done as part of a conference speakers' presentation.
Research focuses on understanding current bioethical issues related to biotechnology and biotechnology law, as well as how different ideologies answer, or if they even can answer, different bioethical issues. The Center's approach to bioethical research attempts to understand "multiple perspectives" and evaluate the validity of each.
The Center has sponsored five conferences that have dealt with the United States health care system, research on children, biofuels, genetically modified foods, and whether the field of bioethics and its methodology can provide actual answers to ethical questions or merely the opinions of ethicists.
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