Law-Medicine Center

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 Heal...

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 electron...

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 raised...

At the recent annual celebration of faculty, Sharona Hoffman was awarded the 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law Distinguished Research Award. This annual award is given to one law school faculty member based on quality and quantity of scholarly publications during the past three year...

Jessie Hill was given the Champion for Women Award by the Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus for her advocacy and litigation in the area of reproductive rights. For several years, Hill has been involved in legal challenges to laws restricting access to abortion in Ohio....

Professor Jessie Hill and CWRU Reproductive Rights Fellow Becca Kendis (LAW '19, MSASS '19) were honored by the ACLU of Ohio for their advocacy of reproductive rights in Ohio. Both Hill and Kendis are on the litigation team challenging Ohio's 6-week abortion ban, which is currently blocked by the co...

Professor Sharona Hoffman recently published two articles in leading medical journals. Both address privacy issues. The first, titled “Interoperability in a Post-Roe Era Sustaining Progress While Protecting Reproductive Health Information,” appeared in JAMA on Nov. 1, 2022. It was co-authored with D...

On Oct. 7th Professor Jessie Hill and her team won a temporary but important victory in their battle to end Ohio’s ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins granted a preliminary injunction against Ohio’s abortion ban. Consequently, while lit...

Max Mehlman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, is co-principal investigator on a project recently awarded a four-year $1.6 million grant by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dean Jessica Berg, an expert on informed consent, is ...

The CWRU Health Law Clinic hit the ground running with the first of seven Social Security Appeal Hearings it has scheduled for this semester. Melanie Fuenmayor, a 3L enrolled in the clinic, started working on her case before the school year began to prepare to be the first chair at the hearing. He...