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.
CWRU Law Dean to offer summer Pandemic Law course to incoming law students
May 29, 2020Many 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.
Professor Sharona Hoffman publishes article in Wake Forest Law Review about specialty drugs
May 28, 2020Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published an article entitled 鈥淪pecialty Drugs and the Health Care Cost Crisis,鈥 co-authored with Professor Isaac Buck.-
CWRU health law professors featured in local and national coronavirus media coverage
April 24, 2020As the coronavirus impacts nearly every aspect of our lives and raises new legal and ethical questions about the responsibilities of individuals and government, our professors have been featured in multiple media outlets exploring the legal and ethical issues of the nation鈥檚 response to the pandemic. 
鈥楨nvironmental Health and the Law鈥 conference examines legislative role in addressing persistent environmental threats to human health
April 07, 2020The interdisciplinary conference examined the effectiveness of 50 years of environmental law in addressing persistent environmental threats to human health, the ability of regulatory structures and institutions to safeguard human health from environmental threats and what new approaches are necessary to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to live in safe and healthy communities.
Professors Berg and Hoffman quoted in Plain Dealer article about COVID-19
March 25, 2020Dean Jessica Berg and Professor Sharona Hoffman were quoted in an article entitled 鈥淪carcity, Health Care Rationing and Coronavirus: The Choices Only Get Tougher鈥 in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on March 18, 2020.