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Jessie Hill, JD

Jessie Hill, JD

Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, School of Law

Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, School of Law

The Geography of Abortion Rights, 109 Geo. L.J. (forthcoming 2021).
Essentially Elective: The Law and Ideology of Restricting Abortion During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 106 Va. L. Rev. Online (2020) (online essay).
Abortion Access in Ohio’s Changing Legislative Context, 2010-2018, Am. J. Pub. Health (2020) (with Alison H. Norris, Payal Chakraborty, Kaiting Lang, Robert B. Hood, Sarah Hayford, Lisa Keder, Danielle Bessett, Mikaela H. Smith, B. Jessie Hill, Molly Broscoe, Carolette Norwood & Michelle L. McGowan) (peer reviewed), doi:10.2105/AJPH.2020.305706.
Neonatal Organ and Tissue Donation for Research: Options Following Death by Natural Causes, 21 Cell & Tissue Banking (2020) (with Martha Anderson, Stuart Youngner, Regina Dunne Smith, Raja R. Nandyal, Jeffrey P. Orlowski & Sarah Gutin Barsman), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10561-020-09822-7
The Deliberative Privacy Principle, 28 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 407 (2019).

Brief of Biomedical Ethicists Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H., et al., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners, EMW Women’s Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al., v. Meier (amici curiae brief in support of petition for certiorari) (filed Oct. 28, 2019 in the U.S. Supreme Court).
Argued Preterm-Cleveland v. Acton before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (March 11, 2020)

Quoted in Mayor: Curfew Stays in Place June 4, Weekend Decision Coming. Constitutional Rights in Play, Asheville Citizen Times (June 4, 2020)
Appeared on WKYC -TV to discuss the state of abortion rights in Ohio on the 47th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade (January 21, 2020)

Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM, SJD

Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, School of Law

Co-Director, The Law-Medicine Center, School of Law

Professor, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine

“Specialty Drugs and the Health Care Cost Crisis,” 55 Wake Forest Law Review 55 (2020) (with Isaac D. Buck)
“Physician Burnout Calls for Legal Intervention,” 49 The Hastings Center Report 8 (Dec. 2019)
“What Genetic Testing Teaches about Predictive Health Analytics Regulation,” 98 North Carolina Law Review 123 (2019)
“Protecting Our Health Care Providers from Liability in a Pandemic,” NULR of Note (a Northwestern University Law Review blog), May 3, 2020.
“Maintaining Healthy Skepticism About Reported COVID-19 Findings,” The Bill of Health (a Harvard Law School blog), April 29, 2020 (with Andy Podgurski)
“Protecting our Most Vulnerable Populations in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” The Bill of Health (a Harvard Law School blog), March 19, 2020.
“High-Priced Specialty Drugs: Exposing the Flaws in the System,” The Conversation, January 13, 2020

2020 Jessica Melton Perry Award for Distinguished Teaching in Disciplinary and Professional Writing (awarded by Case Western Reserve University)

Maxwell J. Mehlman, JD

Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, School of Law

Distinguished University Professor

Director, Law-Medicine Centers, School of Law

Professor, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine

Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (5th ed. Thompson West) (with Mark Rothstein and Sonia Suter)
“Compulsory Immunization Protects Against Infection: What Law and Society Can Do” Journal Pathogens and Immunity (with Michael Lederman)
“History Shows No Good Way to Ration Lifesaving Care” Columbus Dispatch, March 28, 2020.
“The Haves, Have-notes, and the Will-nots,” Hastings Center Report, July-August 2019, 42-43 (reviewing New Methuselahs: The Ethics of Life Extension by John Davis).

Presentations

Talk on Ethical Issues in Military Genomics, Federal Precision Medicine Technical Exchange, Air Force Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., Sept. 4, 2019
Zaremski Forum on Governing Non-Traditional Biological Experiments, Feb. 4, 2020
CWRU School of Medicine Bioethics Department Works in Progress on Predictive Genetic Testing in the Military, May 20, 2020

Katharine Van Tassel

Visiting Professor of Law, The Law-Medicine Center, School of Law

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Medical Law, United States of America (Wolters Kluwer - Kluwer Law International, 2020)
Supplement, Food and Drug Administration (4th ed., 2014) (Thomson Reuters) (Spring, 2020) (with James T. O’Reilly)

Invited Panelist, Civil Rights and Equity in the Delivery of Medical and Public Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ohio, Ohio Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights

Are Nanoparticles the New Asbestos? Environmental Health and the Law Symposium, Case Western Reserve University School of Law (March, 2020)
The Growing Consumer Exposure to Nanotechnology in Everyday Products: Regulating Innovative Technologies in Light of Lessons from the Past by Creating a “Public Health Product Safety Net,” The City Club of Cleveland (September, 2019)

Reappointed, Co-Chair of the Food & Drug Law Committee of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association (since 2011)

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals citation to Food and Drug Administration (4th ed., 2014) in Kaiser v. Johnson & Johnson.

Medina Business Executive Says Masks Can Save Lives and Protect Ohio's Economy, The Sound of Ideas - NPR (July 15, 2020)
Zantac Contamination Concerns: Has Drug Been Recalled and Chances of a Class Action Lawsuit? Newsweek (October 2, 2019).
Hahnemann Residency Program Sale Approved by Bankruptcy Judge in Controversial Decision, Philadelphia Inquirer (September 5, 2019).