Balancing Privacy, Autonomy, and Scientific Progress: Patients’ Rights in the Use of Electronic Medical Records for Non-Treatment Purposes, took place on April 5, 2013.

Health Law Professor, Jessie Hill, published Abortion and Reproductive Health Services: Point and Abortion and Reproductive Services: Counterpoint in “Debates on U.S. Health Care,” (Jennie Jacobs Kroenfeld, Wendy E. Parmet & Mark A. Zessa eds., 2012).

U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Law-Medicine Center in the Top 10 in the nation for Healthcare Law in the 2012 rankings.

On January 17, 2013, Professor Mehlman was on “Live at Lakeside” on WKYC Channel 3 in Cleveland discussing performance enhancement in sports in connection with the Lance Armstrong scandal.

On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Health Law Professor Jessica Berg presented “Charity Care Obligations and Tax Exempt Hospitals: Time for a Change,” as part of the Case Downtown lecture series.

Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby, Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center, was awarded the “Women Achievement Award,” Case Western Reserve University School of Law, October, 2012. The award honors one woman from each school at Case Western Reserve University for excellence in research and scholarship.)

Prof. Mehlman's article "Medical Practice Guidelines as Malpractice Safe Harbors: Illusion or Deceit?" has been published in the summer issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.

Prof. Hoffman's article, “Balancing Privacy, Autonomy, and Scientific Needs in Electronic Health Records Research” was published in the SMU Law Review. Andy Podgurski co-authored the article.

Prof. Mehlman has been awarded an 18-month grant by the National Institutes of Health to conduct the first study of ethical, legal, and policy implications of the use of genetic science by the U.S. military.