health law

Professor 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 organiz...

Corey 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 Med...

U.S. News and World Report, which belatedly issued its controversial 2023 law school rankings in May, is one of several organizations that publish annual law school rankings. Some of these rankings prioritize areas of specialization, where Case Western Reserve University School of Law particularly e...

In 2020 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine published its 30th volume. Ranked 3rd among all specialty journals in the fields of health, medicine, psychology and psychiatry law, it stands out as a prominent resource for health law scholars. In the early 1980s, a group of graduate and profession...

For more than a decade, vaccinations have come under increased scrutiny, with social media influencers and public figures claiming unproven and often scientifically refuted evidence that vaccines carry serious medical risk. As voluntary public participation in vaccinations has dipped below critica...

Many 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. The pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we live, with travel restrictions, business closures, social dista...

Ranked 30th in the nation in scholarly impact and ninth in health law, the Case Western Reserve University School of Law faculty are regularly cited by media outlets seeking legal analysis of the day’s most pressing health law topics. Now, as the coronavirus impacts nearly every aspect of our lives...

In 2020, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in yet another Affordable Care Act (ACA) case. California v. Texas is the seventh ACA case to reach One First Street and the second case in which plaintiffs argued that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and as a consequence, the entire ACA sho...

Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, and Professor of Bioethics, has written more than sixty articles and book chapters on health law and civil rights issues in her career. She is also the author of two books: Aging with A Plan: How a...

From the 1918 flu, Hurricane Katrina, to the H1N1 pandemic, history teaches that the poor and communities of color shoulder the greatest burden of disease, death, and loss both during and after public health disasters. It is quickly becoming clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is no different, with rac...