Tuesday,
May 2
5:00 to 6:00 pm, Rocky 003
The vaccine court is a small special court in the Court of Federal Claims that handles controversial claims that a vaccine has harmed someone. Lawyers, activists, judges,
doctors, and scientists come together, trying to figure out whether a vaccine really caused a person’s medical problem. In this talk, Professor Kirkland presents findings from her new book on the vaccine court where she argues that our political and legal
response to vaccine injury claims shows how legal institutions can handle specialized scientific matters.
Student Lunch
12:15 to 1:15 pm, Morrison Commons, Rockefeller Center
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Student Lunch with Professor Anna Kirkland Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan Tuesday, May 2, 2017 12:15-1:15 PM
Morrison Commons, Rockefeller Center The Rockefeller Center is hosting this student lunch before Prof. Kirkland's public event, "Vaccine Courts: The Law and Politics of Injury," at 5:00-6:00 pm, in Rocky 003. Speaker Bio: Anna Kirkland, J.D., Ph.D., is Arthur
F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science, and Associate Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood
(New York University Press, 2008) and co-editor with Jonathan Metzl of Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality (New York University Press, 2010). In her new book, Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury (New York University Press, 2016), Kirkland
explores how activists and gov
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Anna Kirkland, J.D., Ph.D., is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science, and Associate Director
of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan.