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.
Second-year law student examines long-term impacts of COVID-19 on special education
September 02, 2020Schools around the country are now in session, though they’re offering a patchwork of different learning models amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Bailey Kadian, a second-year student at the School of Law, is taking a look at what the long-term impacts of these approaches are, especially for students who rely on special education programs.
Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel testifies before the Ohio Advisory Committee to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
July 24, 2020On July 23, 2020, Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel testified before the Ohio Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights as an invited panelist. The hearings were entitled Civil Rights and Equity in the Delivery of Medical and Public Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ohio.
Professor Sharona Hoffman Quoted in Los Angeles Times about Airplane Mask Requirements
July 08, 2020Professor Hoffman was quoted in an article entitled ““Don’t Want to Wear a Mask on the Plane? Too Bad. Airlines Now Will Require It,” published in the Los Angeles Times on June 29, 2020.
Professor Jessie Hill coauthors study on Ohio abortion access in American Journal of Public Health
June 01, 2020On May 21, a study examining eight years of abortion access in Ohio was released by the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network, or OPEN, which includes scientists from Ohio State, the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Case Western Reserve University.
CWRU Law Dean to offer summer Pandemic Law course to incoming law students
May 29, 2020Many entering first-year law students were planning to travel or work during the summer before beginning law school. For most, such plans had to be shelved when the coronavirus struck.