Law-Medicine Center

On May 21, a study examining eight years of abortion access in Ohio was released by the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network, or OPEN, which includes scientists from Ohio State, the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Case Western Reserve University. Jessie Hill, CWRU professor o...

Many entering first-year law students were planning to travel or work during the summer before beginning law school. For most, such plans had to be shelved when the coronavirus struck. The pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we live, with travel restrictions, business closures, social dista...

Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published an article entitled “Specialty Drugs and the Health Care Cost Crisis,” co-authored with Professor Isaac Buck. The paper focuses on specialty drugs, which are generally high-cost drugs that require special handlin...

Ranked 30th in the nation in scholarly impact and ninth in health law, the Case Western Reserve University School of Law faculty are regularly cited by media outlets seeking legal analysis of the day’s most pressing health law topics. Now, as the coronavirus impacts nearly every aspect of our lives...

On March 27, the Law-Medicine Center hosted its annual conference, “Environmental Health and the Law,” co-sponsored by the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law and the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health. The interdisciplinary conference examined the effectiveness of 50 years...

Dean Jessica Berg and Professor Sharona Hoffman were quoted in an article entitled “Scarcity, Health Care Rationing and Coronavirus: The Choices Only Get Tougher” in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on March 18, 2020....

Physician burnout is a growing concern within the profession, but it’s also a public-health issue because of the potential to harm patients. Now, in new published research, a Case Western Reserve University law professor insists that government—not just the medical profession—needs to step up to ad...

Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published an article, “What Genetic Testing Teaches about Predictive Health Analytics Regulation.” The paper argues that like genetic testing, predictive health analytics raise significant concerns about psychological harm,...

Professor Max Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently co-authored an article in the Pathogens and Immunity journal with Dr. Michael Lederman, titled, “Compulsory Immunization Protects Against Infection: What Law and Society Can Do.” The article examines potential legal remedies to co...