The main aim of the Brocher - Hastings Center Summer Academy is to bring together distinguished professors from different disciplines and countries and highly promising researchers willing to acquire a strong background on the Medical, Ethical and Legal Implications of Human enhancement ». The high level of teaching and the limited number of participants gives the students a rare opportunity to meet personally many established international professors. Lectures, daily working groups and a round table are essential components of this event. 

SESSIONS

• History and Concept
• Innovation towards regulation
• Enhancement in sport
• Cognitive enhancement
• The Interface Between Cognitive and Moral Enhancement
• Politics of Enhancement
• Enhancing Bodies
• Round table

SPEAKERS

• Christine Cosgrove, Writer and Editor, University of California - Berkeley
• Dena S. Davis, Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
• Philippe Ducor, Professor, Law School, University of Geneva
• John Hoberman, Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas
• Eric Juengst, Director, Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina
• Patrick Lin, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, California Polytechnic State University
• Michael McNamee, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Humanities and Law in Healthcare, Swansea University
• Maxwell J. Mehlman, Director, Law-Medicine Center, Case Western University
• Thomas H. Murray, President, Hastings Center
• Erik Parens, Senior Research Scholar, Hastings Center
• Tom Shakespeare, Technical officer, Disability and Rehabilitation Team (DAR), Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization
• Ilina Singh, Reader in Bioethics and Society, BIOS, London School of Economics
• Robert Sparrow, ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Monash University
• Nicole Vincent, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University
• David T. Wasserman, Director of research, Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University