The Law-Medicine Center
The Law-Medicine Center






Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Founded in 1953, the Law-Medicine Center, is the oldest law school-based center for the study of legal medicine and health law in the United States. The field of health law effectively began with the creation of the Center in 1953.

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OCT 102011
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).
OCT 102011
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Law-Medicine Center in the Top 10 in the nation for Healthcare Law
OCT 102011
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.
OCT 102011
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.
OCT 102011
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.
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