West Virginia University College of Law professor Jennifer Oliva participated in a panel discussion at Harvard Law on April 1, 2019. Professor Oliva was an invited panlist and organizer for the event titled "Public Health Approaches to the Opioid Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions" . The panel discussed "community-driven, evidence-based public health strategies aimed at reducing overdose deaths in hard-to-reach populations in Massachusetts, including fishing families, veterans, and individuals who are incarcerated."

Professor Oliva was joined on the panel by Stephen Wood of Harvard Medical School and J.J. Bartlet, President of Fishing Partnership Support Servicers. The panel was moderated by Carmel Shacher, Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

West Virginia University law professor Jennifer Oliva has published the inaugural blog post in a new series hosted by "Bill of Health", the blog of Harvard Law's Petrie-Flom Center.  The series will examine servicemembers' "Homecoming-esque" experiences and traumas and the legal ramifications.

The first post was published on February 14, 2019 and is titled "'Homecoming' to a History of Servicemember Experimentation".

On Friday, February 8, 2019, WVU Law professor Jennifer Oliva participated in the  Third Annual Regional Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat at Seton Hall Law School.  The event is designed to give health law scholars an opportunity to share their work and exchange ideas.  It is sponsored by the school's Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy.   Professor Oliva was an invited commentator in a session discussing "Health Information Defederalization".

Read Professor Oliva's scholarship on SSRN.  

The West Virginia University College of Law Research Paper Series published Volume 6, Issue 3 on December 19, 2018. The following authors were featured for their scholarship recently published to SSRN:

Dean Gregory Bowman, The Rise of the Creative Law School

West Virginia University law professor Jennifer Oliva will present at two sessions at the upcoming 2019 AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Professor Oliva will participate on a panel entitled "Legal Solutions to Meeting the Mental Health Needs of our Most Vulnerable Populations" sponsored by the Section on Law and Mental Disability on January 5, 2019.

Professor Oliva will also present her paper "Prescription Drug Policing: The Right to Protected Health Information Privacy Pre- and Post- Carpenter", at the Young Scholars works-in-progress session for the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care on January 3, 2018.