The Law-Medicine Center
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Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Law-Medicine Center Again Ranks in Top 10
U.S. News & World Report specialty law programs for 2011 has ranked the Law-Medicine Center in the Top 10 in the nation for Healthcare Law in the 2012 rankings. The Law-Medicine Center has been in the Top 10 every year since such rankings began.

Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum

Federal Law for Protecting Human Subjects: Historical Investigation & Recommendations for Reform
from the President's Bioethics Commission
Valerie Bonham, Executive Director
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues

Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum

Why the Democrats Passed an Unpopular Health Care Reform
Prof. Joseph White, Political Science
Case Western Reserve University

Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum

Nursing Home Residents Have Rights?
Prof. Louise McKinney, Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum

Medical Malpractice Litigation: The Medical & Legal Perspectives
Medical Malpractice Litigation: The Medical & Legal Perspectives
George Moscarino, Esq and Howard Nearman, MD

Law-Medicine Symposium

New Technologies, New Challenges: Women & Prenatal Genetic Testing in the 21st Century
Two-day Law-Medicine Symposium

Schroeder Scholar-in-Residence

The Goals of FDA Regulation & the Challenges of Meeting Them
Ralph S. Tyler, former Chief Counsel, FDA

Practice Guidelines & Medical Malpractice
Prof. Maxwell Mehlman, Director, The Law-Medicine Center
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

E-Health Hazards: Provider Liability & Electronic Health Records
Prof. Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director, The Law-Medicine Center
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Activities
Professor Jessica Berg served as Legal Advisor to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics for their Spring 2011 meeting to develop ethics policy.

Presentations
Professor Maxwell Mehlman gave a talk on biomedical enhancement of warfighters at the annual Health Law Professors conference of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics in Chicago in June 2011 and at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 2011.

Publication
Professor Jessie Hill was invited to write a symposium contribution, “Whose Body? Whose Soul? Medical Decisionmaking on Behalf of Children and the Free Exercise Clause Before and After Employment Division v. Smith,” which was published in Cardozo Law Review (Vol. 32, 2011).

Publication
Professor Sharona Hoffman published “The Importance of Immutability in Employment Discrimination Law,” 52 William & Mary Law Review 1483-1546 (2011). This article in part analyzes the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act.

The Center sponsors frequent lunch-time lectures.