About Our Center
The challenges that will face the medical and health law professions in the coming decades are enormous. And the Law-Medicine Center is uniquely poised to prepare its students to address these challenges. The center is the oldest health law program in the country. The field of health law effectively began with the creation of the center in 1953. Our Law-Medicine Center’s offerings include a wealth of courses, experiential learning opportunities, several graduate programs, outstanding faculty, extracurricular activities, experiential learning opportunities, job placement assistance and more.
Our health law curriculum offers a wide range of courses, seminars, and clinical practice opportunities to students interested in the full array of health law subjects—from corporate law firm practice to bioethics, from medical malpractice advocacy to government regulation of health care providers. Students do not have to wait until their second or third year to begin work in the health law curriculum. Each year we offer an elective course in health law to first year students.
CWRU Law Fields First Team in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition
November 22, 2024This semester the law school competed for the first time in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition.
2024 Graduate Corey Whetzel Wins Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award
November 13, 2024Corey Whetzel (LAW '24) recently won the American Society for Pharmacy Law’s (ASPL) Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award. He was selected for his paper “No Way FDA, Let States Lead the Way on Expanding the Prescriptive Authority of Pharmacists,” which was published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law Medicine this spring.
Sharona Hoffman publishes “Employers and the Privatization of Public Health”
October 29, 2024Professor Sharona Hoffman published a new article in the Boston College Law Review entitled “Employers and the Privatization of Public Health.” The article focuses on the role of employers in public health and argues that they constitute increasingly important actors in the U.S. public health arena.
Lucas Katz Appointed New Cowen Fellow
September 20, 2024In fall 2024, Lucas Katz (LAW ’24) joined the CWRU Law-Medicine Center as the new Cowen Fellow.
Cassandra Robertson Receives NSF Grant for Work on Disabilities
September 18, 2024Cassandra Roberston is one of several CWRU faculty members who received a $74,999 grant from the National Science Foundation. The money will be used to hold a conference on "Employing Public Interest Technologies to Promote Access in Education and Employment for People who have Physical Disabilities."