RALEIGH, N.C. – Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF) co-founder Nikolas Nikas will join two Campbell Law professors for a panel discussion on how innovations in medicine and technology affect privacy and property rights. Hosted by the Campbell Law Federalist Society and Campbell Law American Civil Liberties Union, Nikas will join assistant professors Tuneen Chisolm and Sarah Ludington for the dialogue on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at noon.
Area residents are invited to join the Campbell Law community in attending the presentation. Paid parking is available at the City of Raleigh Municipal Parking Deck across from the law school on West Morgan Street.
Nikas is president and general counsel of BDF, a public-interest legal and educational organization that advocates for law in the service of life throughout the United States and abroad. He is known for his expertise in clarifying and integrating the principles of natural law with the facts of science and medicine to be used as the foundation for model legislation, litigation, and professional education. Nikas has lectured on the full range of bioethics topics at legal and medical conferences and leading law and medical schools and in the United States and abroad. He left a prestigious law practice in 1990 to serve as legal counsel for several national public interest law firms defending life and religious liberty. Nikas has served as a fellow with the New York-based Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, testified in the U.S. Senate and consulted with the President’s Council on Bioethics when it was under the leadership of Leon Kass, MD, PhD. The panel discussion will mark his second appearance at Campbell Law.
Chisolm, who is a former bioengineer and chemical engineer, teaches courses including Intellectual Property, Trademark & Unfair Competition, Remedies, and Entertainment Law. Her research interests revolve around the intersection of morality, equity and intellectual property rights, particularly as it relates to entertainment or the impact of patent law on patient rights and consumer access to healthcare.
Ludington is an emerging scholar in the fields of free speech and privacy law. Her recent work examines the implications of tenure for the speech of professors and methods for deterring the misuse of personally identifiable information. She has also co-authored articles about the history of sovereign debt repudiation and the doctrine of odious debts.
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