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October 8, 2025
The Petrie-Flom Center
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 12:20 to 1:20 p.m.
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Is the advanced age of many leaders cause for concern? Should we have maximum age limits for lawmakers and judges? What can neuroscience research tell us about the aging process and efforts to increase the "health span," particularly for cognitive functions?
Francis X. Shen, a pioneer in the interdisciplinary field of law and neuroscience, will lead a discussion of the legal and ethical implications of aging.
Panelists
- Moderator: Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota; Member, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics; Founding Director, Dana Foundation Career Network in Neuroscience & Society; Former Petrie-Flom Senior Fellow, Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience
- Nancy Gertner, JD, Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Retired Federal Judge; Author; and Managing Director, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, Mass General Hospital
- Benjamin C. Silverman, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty member, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School; Director of Ethics, McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
