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.
Health Law Students Extern at U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Federal Public Defender
May 14, 2021Third-year law students Naomi Gahyun Kim and Rachel Lamparelli had outstanding experiences in their capstone externships. At the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) Public Health Law Program, Kim focused on state vaccination laws and researched the constitutional and civil rights implications of potential vaccine mandates.
Gerber Fellows Complete Ambitious Projects for Fellowship Experiences
April 26, 2021First-year students who were named Gerber Fellows (which includes a scholarship for each recipient) recently completed a broad range of healthcare-related projects as part of their fellowship experience.
Professor Hoffman Interviewed by National and International News Outlets about COVID-19
April 16, 2021Professor Sharona Hoffman has been interviewed by numerous local, national, and international news outlets in recent weeks about vaccines, vaccines passports, mask mandates and more.
Visiting Professor Van Tassel speaks at Harvard-Yale Conference
March 19, 2021Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel presented a paper entitled “Vulnerable Populations and Vaccine Injury Compensation: The Need for Legal Reform” at a conference hosted by Harvard and Yale Law Schools.
Professors Van Tassel, Hoffman publish on vaccine injury compensation in New England Journal of Medicine
January 21, 2021Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel and Professor Sharona Hoffman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, were published on Jan. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine with co-author Carmel Shachar, executive director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center.