Law-Medicine Center

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…

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…

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.…

Professor Sharona Hoffman recently published an article entitled “Physicians and Cognitive Decline: A Challenge for State Medical Boards” in the Journal of Medical Regulation. The article develops recommendations for state medical boards to establish late career testing programs to identify older…

In April, third-year Health Law Clinic students Ester Khaykin and Naomi Tellez gave a presentation on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for Children to the pediatric medical providers of the Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) Community Health Centers. In their presentation, Khaykin and Tellez…

In April, the Health Law Clinic at Case Western Reserve University School of Law hosted its first Pop-up Wills Clinic, helping more than 30 community members obtain wills, power of attorney and other important legal documents. The clinic provided students with the unique opportunity to combine…

The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host an interdisciplinary conference—"Restoring Medical Professionalism: Physicians as Advocates for their Patients”—Friday, March 25, and Saturday, March 26.  The ability of physicians to advocate for their patients is…

The second edition of Aging with a Plan by Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was released in January 2022. The book is a concise and comprehensive resource for readers approaching middle…

Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was appointed bioethics reviewer for the Department of Defense Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health…