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Professors Sharona Hoffman and Cassandra Robertson co-authored a piece entitled “Balancing Autonomy and Public Safety: A Call for Medical and Regulatory Oversight of Drivers with Cognitive Decline.” The article appeared in Health Affairs Forefront on Jan. 2, 2024. The piece argues that state licensi...

The Reproductive Rights Law Initiative (RRLI) at Case Western Reserve University School of Law has recently hired two staff attorneys/lecturers to help advance its mission of preserving and expanding Ohioans’ legal access to abortion and reproductive health care. They join the RRLI’s faculty directo...

Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, was among the newly elected members of the American Law Institute (ALI). Hill joined the faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gord...

Working on what’s next for reproductive rights It’s hard to understand when Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, found time to sleep this year. In the months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Hill has litiga...

Every year, Case Western Reserve University School of Law hosts online and in-person events. This fall, we hosted a wide variety of lectures, panels and presentations covering a range of topics from climate change and energy justice to investment crowdfunding and crimes against humanity. These event...

Law-Medicine Center celebrates 70 years of shaping the field In the years leading up to the Law-Medicine Center’s founding in 1953, the Cleveland city morgue was nothing like the crisp white laboratory setting of today. Built in 1895, it had no scientific instruments, no modern examination tables, ...

Adjunct Professor Susan Hatters-Friedman recently won the Seymour J. Pollack Distinguished Achievement Award at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law's annual meeting in Chicago. The award is given to forensic psychiatrists who have made distinguished contributions to the teaching and educa...

Dr. Amy Acton, former Director of the Ohio Department of Health, delivered the 2023 served as the Law-Medicine Center’s 2023 Schroeder Scholar in Residence. Her lecture was entitled “The Leader We Wish We All Had Is YOU: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Dr. Acton gave a first-hand account of se...

Sharona Hoffman and her co-author, Andy Podgurski (Case Western Reserve University School of Engineering), have published an article entitled “The Patient’s Voice: Legal Implications of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.” The Article, which appears in the Yale Journal of Health, Policy, Law and Ethi...

On Sept. 27, Jessie Hill argued a case entitled Preterm-Cleveland v. David Yost before the Ohio Supreme Court. Hill represents abortion providers challenging the law, together with the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the law firm Wilmer Hale. This case comes at a critical moment for reproductive health...