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Recent News From the Center
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November 21, 2025In September, Assistant Professor Yaron Covo and co-authors from the Yale University School of Medicine published an opinion piece in STAT News, a leading medical news platform. In the piece, Covo and his co-authors question the social desirability of sports leagues’ “injury reports,” which are… -
July 17, 2025Professor Sharona Hoffman participated in a writer’s workshop at Harvard Law School on June 9, 2025. Her talk was entitled “Addressing the Challenges of Cognitive Decline in the Physician Workforce.” The workshop’s subject was “Law, Health Care, and the Aging Brain and Body.” The conference… -
May 30, 2025Jessie Hill's article "Recentering the Pregnant Body: Moving Beyond the Medicalized Framework in Abortion Advocacy," is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. Hill argues that abortion rights advocates have long treated abortion as primarily a medical issue, while minimizing its… -
April 08, 2025The new 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools listing include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools, with Case Western Reserve University School of Law earning top rankings in multiple areas of concentration. The law school has achieved impressive specialty… -
April 07, 2025The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Yaron Covo will be joining Case Western Reserve University as an assistant professor on the tenure track. Covo earned an LLB from Tel Aviv University Law School (2014), and LLM and JSD degrees from Columbia Law School (2019 and 2023). He is…