Law-Medicine Center

Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel and Professor Sharona Hoffman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, were published on Jan. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine with co-author Carmel Shachar, executive director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center. The article, “Covid-19 Vacci...

Congratulations to Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, an adjunct professor at the law school, who was selected for the Manfred S. Guttmacher award by the American Psychiatric Association/ American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law for her edited book, Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate. Hatters F...

Professor Jessie Hill, Judge Ben C. Green professor of law and associate dean for research and faculty development, co-authored an op-ed, “During the Pandemic, Some Rights are More Equal than Others: Caroline Mala Corbin and Jessie Hill.” Published in Cleveland.com on Dec. 6, 2020, the article hig...

Professor Maxwell Mehlman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, published the fifth edition of his textbook, Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy. The book, co-authored with Professors Mark Rothstein and Sonia Sutter, is published by Thompson/West. It is the first and only law school textbook on the...

Professor Sharona Hoffman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published the article, “Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in Health Care,” in the Yale Journal of Health Policy Law and Ethics. In the article, Hoffman argues that "algorithmic discrimination in medicine can violat...

Professor Sharona Hoffman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, was quoted in an article entitled “Is It OK to Reveal Your Anxiety or Depression to Your Boss?” in the Wall Street Journal on September 13, 2020....

The CWRU School of Law will host a webinar titled “Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do” via Zoom Thursday, Oct. 1, at noon. The webinar will feature: Michael Lederman, professor of medicine at CWRU School of Medicine; Maxwell J. Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine C...

Schools around the country are now in session, though they’re offering a patchwork of different learning models amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Bailey Kadian, a second-year student at the School of Law, is taking a look at what the long-term impacts of these approaches are, especially for students who r...

On July 23, 2020, Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel testified before the Ohio Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights as an invited panelist. The hearings were entitled Civil Rights and Equity in the Delivery of Medical and Public Services During the COVID-19 Pandemi...

Professor Hoffman was quoted in an article entitled ““Don’t Want to Wear a Mask on the Plane? Too Bad. Airlines Now Will Require It,” published in the Los Angeles Times on June 29, 2020. Professor Hoffman explained that “Airlines are private businesses and airlines have a right to have rules of th...