Law-Medicine Center

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…

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…

Professor Sharona Hoffman published a new article in the Boston College Law Review entitled “Employers and the Privatization of Public Health.” The article focuses on the role of employers in public health and argues that they constitute increasingly important actors in the U.S. public health…

In fall 2024, Lucas Katz (LAW ’24) joined the CWRU Law-Medicine Center as the new Cowen Fellow.  Katz grew up in Alaska and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and East Asian Studies from Columbia University in 2020. He earned a law degree from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law in…

Cassandra Roberston is one of several CWRU faculty members who received a $74,999 grant from the National Science Foundation. The money will be used to hold a conference on "Employing Public Interest Technologies to Promote Access in Education and Employment for People who have Physical…

Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Law-Medicine Center has been ranked among the top eight health law programs in the country by preLaw magazine, earning an A+ rating. As the oldest health law program in the United States, the center has a long history of preparing students to tackle…

On Aug. 13, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) announced the appointment of Jonathan H. Adler as one of six new public members of the conference. “I am honored to receive this appointment and look forward to working with other members of the conference to enhance the…

Case Western Reserve University School of Law student Andrew McGirty is the second place winner of the Ninth Annual AUWCL National Health Law Writing Competition. McGirty submitted the paper: Cracking Causation: The Need for a Workable Link Between the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims…

Corey Whetzel will begin his fellowship at the American Pharmacist Association (APhA) shortly after graduation. The APhA is the largest association of pharmacists in the United States, and its mission is to advance the pharmacy profession. Only four individuals were selected for the 2024–2025 APhA…