Law-Medicine Center
December 18, 2023
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…
December 14, 2023
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…
December 13, 2023
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,…
October 26, 2023
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…
October 18, 2023
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…
October 05, 2023
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…
October 05, 2023
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…
July 18, 2023
Washington & Lee School of Law issues an international ranking of all law journals on July 15 of each year. This year, CWRU’s Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine was ranked third best among 56 ranked health law journals. Sharona Hoffman, the journal’s advisor, said “Congratulations to all of…
July 03, 2023
Jonathan Adler and his co-author, Jacob James Rich, recently published an article entitled “Uneducating Americans on Vaping.” The article was the cover story of the Cato Institute’s summer 2023 issue of Regulation Magazine. The article argues that Americans need to be better educated about…
June 15, 2023
Max Mehlman and co-authors recently published an article in the Journal of Law and Biosciences entitled “Governing Nonconventional Genetic Experimentation.” In 2019, Mehlman received a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH to examine ethical, legal, and policy issues…