This site was developed in recognition that education is an important element of AHLA's Public Interest commitment ". . . to serve as a public resource on selected healthcare legal issues." Thanks to the Associations the Links with Academia Advisory Group for establishing and helping to maintain this site.
About These Web Pages
This site is intended to provide a smorgasbord for all academic health lawyers in the United States. Our hope is that all health law teachers will find something useful here, whether they are teaching health law for the first time or are a grizzled veteran; are a full-time teacher or part-time "adjunct"; or teach in a law school setting or in a school of public health, a medical school, or in one of the allied health professions' schools.
In addition, many schools offer more than one "law and medicine" or "health law" course: a survey course that covers most of the major areas of health care regulation and litigation, medical malpractice, food and drug, bioethics, etc. These pages are designed to provide valuable information for all teachers in the field, regardless of the precise focus of their course offerings.
News for Academics
NEW! The Boston University Health Law Program announces its Health Law Scholars Program
November 23, 2009 - The BU Health Law Program is an interdisciplinary research and teaching program at Boston University, including the School of Law and the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at the School of Public Health. The Health Law Program is dedicated to scholarly research at the intersection of law and health policy, broadly conceived. Topical areas include, but are not limited to: health care financing and organization; insurance; global health; public health; emergency preparedness; bioethics; health & human rights; cost, quality and access; health care markets; food & drug law; biomedical research; innovation; and health disparities.
The Health Law Scholars Program is a post-JD experience designed to prepare candidates for tenure-track faculty positions in law schools. Scholars will hold a full-time, one-year appointment in the School of Law as a visiting assistant professor, beginning July 2010. Scholars teach one seminar per semester (six credits per year) and devote the balance of their time to research and writing. Scholars also participate in faculty workshops at BU and can observe health policy and research in practice at Boston Medical Center. The program is led by Professor Wendy Mariner and Associate Professor Kevin Outterson. Other faculty members of the program include Professor George Annas, Professor Leonard Glantz, Professor Fran Miller, and Associate Professor Abigail Moncrieff.
For more details and information about the Boston University Health Law Scholars Program, click here.
Advice Columns
An advice column on the Academic Health Law site, written by guest authors from academia and private practice, provides insights and teaching tips as well as advice on researching and teaching specific health law or health policy topics.
The ninth guest column, "2009 Governance Update," was written by Kathleen M. Boozang, Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ. It provides an overview of four of the “hottest” areas related to nonprofit corporate governance in 2009:
- Governance and the IRS, focusing on the Governance section of the new Form 990 and executive compensation
- Governance and Corporate Compliance
- Governance and Quality
- Governance and the Economy
Read archived columns.
Resources for Academics