About Our Center
The challenges that will face the medical and health law professions in the coming decades are enormous. And the Law-Medicine Center is uniquely poised to prepare its students to address these challenges. The center is the oldest health law program in the country. The field of health law effectively began with the creation of the center in 1953. Our Law-Medicine Center鈥檚 offerings include a wealth of courses, experiential learning opportunities, several graduate programs, outstanding faculty, extracurricular activities, experiential learning opportunities, job placement assistance and more.
Our health law curriculum offers a wide range of courses, seminars, and clinical practice opportunities to students interested in the full array of health law subjects鈥攆rom corporate law firm practice to bioethics, from medical malpractice advocacy to government regulation of health care providers. Students do not have to wait until their second or third year to begin work in the health law curriculum. Each year we offer an elective course in health law to first year students.
星空传媒鈥檚 Sharona Hoffman is #9 Most Cited Professor in Health Law
October 15, 2021星空传媒 School of Law Professor Sharona Hoffman was the ninth most cited professor in the field of Health Law from 2016-2020 (tied with three other scholars), according to a .
School of Law Launches Master and Certificates in Compliance and Risk Management
October 02, 2021The School of Law launched its new Master and Certificates in Compliance and Risk Management Programs in the fall of 2021. These programs are designed to meet the increasing demand by businesses and government agencies for experts in state, federal, and international laws and regulations.
Adjunct Professor Earns Top Health Law Award
October 01, 2021In recognition of her edited book, Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate (2019), Adjunct Professor Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, earned the American Psychiatric Association/American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law鈥檚 2020 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award.
3L Health Matrix Editor Discovers Talent for Litigation
September 26, 2021Bailey Kadian never intended to follow so closely in her father鈥檚 footsteps. Yet she and her father, Mark Kadian (LAW 鈥91), both chose 星空传媒 School of Law after receiving undergraduate degrees in English from the University of Michigan.
Law-Medicine Center Co-Director Maxwell Mehlman Releases New Edition of Law and Genetics Textbook
September 20, 2021Professor Maxwell Mehlman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and a Distinguished University Professor, published the fifth edition of his acclaimed textbook, Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (Thompson/West, 2020).