Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences
 In an age of scientific advancement that has created the potential for growing human organs and provided new ways of creating life, dealing with the subsequent ethical issues is of utmost importance. With the new millennium, University of Minnesota faculty were aware that our methods for dealing with new developments in science with regard to ethics, public policy, and law was lagging behind. The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the
Life Sciences was founded in 2000 to help close this gap. Bringing together a number of established organizations from the Center for Bioethics and the Stem Cell Institute to the Water Resources Center and the Institute on the Environment, the Consortium hosts conferences and lectures on topics including environmental ethics, encourages students to take University courses and pursue careers focusing on the societal implications of life science and environmental
issues, and conducts research on interdisciplinary topics that require ethical, scientific, and legal expertise.
http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/
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