Law-Medicine Center

In 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…

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…

Jessie 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…

The 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…

The 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…

The Law-Medicine Center hosted a two-day conference on February 21-22, 2025, entitled “Starting a Career in Medicine - Threats to Healthy Doctor-Patient Relationships. A National Forum for Medical Students.” At the conference, medical and legal experts described the challenges that physicians…

Professor Sharona Hoffman was quoted in the New York Times on March 5, 2025, in an article entitled “Florida Seeks Drug Prescription Data With Names of Patients and Doctors.” She commented on an unusual demand by The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, seeking data on millions of 2024 drug…

Max Mehlman and Sharona Hoffman have been appointed to serve a three-year term as a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME), a leading multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal originally founded in 1981. Published by Cambridge University Press, JLME is the…

The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host a national forum for medical students to discuss the threats they may face that could interfere with their ability to properly care for their patients. These threats include retaliation by hospitals and other…

This semester the law school competed for the first time in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition. The premier competition, in its thirty-second season, is hosted by Southern Illinois University School of Law with support from the American College of Legal Medicine and the American Health…