The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is the first of its kind to focus on the governance, business and practice of health care in the United States. The Center brings together leading experts and practitioners from the public and private sectors to address cutting-edge questions of health law and policy, and to train the next generation of top health lawyers, industry leaders, policymakers and academics.
The Global Health Justice Partnership
The Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP), hosted by Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), was established in 2012 to promote interdisciplinary, innovative, and effective responses to global health disparities. It is a transformative collaboration that integrates different fields in order to make critical policy interventions.
Courses, Events, and Activities
The wide range of health-related programming at Yale Law School reflects the many important ways in which law and policy affect individual and public health, the health care industry, and health governance, both in the United States and abroad.
Monday, November 28, 2022
News
Black Veteran Sues Over Racial Disparities in VA Benefits Administration
On Nov. 28, Conley Monk Jr., a Black veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) seeking redress for harm caused by longstanding racial disparities in veterans’ benefits programs.
Monday, November 28, 2022
In The Press
Racial Discrimination by Veterans Affairs Spans Decades, Lawsuit Says
The Washington Post
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic represents Conley Monk Jr. in a case seeking redress for harm caused by long-standing racial disparities in veterans’ benefits programs.
Monday, November 28, 2022
Left to right: Visiting Clinical Professor Jason Parkin, Rebecca Harris ’24, Michelle Fraling ’23, Conley Monk Jr., Adam Henderson ’23, Mike Sullivan ’24, Beatrice Pollard ’23, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Michael Wishnie ’93
Monday, November 21, 2022
Fatima Goss Graves ’01 and Lecturer in Law Emily Bazelon ’00 held a discussion about the impact of the Dobbs decision.
Friday, November 11, 2022
An audience listens to speakers on the panel, “Monkeypox: Science, Law and Governance of Pandemics.”
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
At the Solomon Center panel on long-term care in the U.S.: Solomon Center Senior Director Jennifer Huer (standing before screen) and panel moderator, Visiting Professor Nina Kohn (left).
Friday, October 21, 2022
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy MD ’03, SOM ’03 addresses an audience at Yale Law School during a Sept. 8 conversation on health policy co-sponsored by the Solomon Center.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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Monday, October 14, 2019
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Monday, October 14, 2019
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Monday, November 28, 2022
In The Press
Racial Discrimination by Veterans Affairs Spans Decades, Lawsuit Says
The Washington Post
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic represents Conley Monk Jr. in a case seeking redress for harm caused by long-standing racial disparities in veterans’ benefits programs.
Monday, November 28, 2022
In The Press
A Black Vietnam Veteran is Suing the VA for Discrimination
NPR
Adam Henderson ’23 is interviewed about a new case brought by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic in federal court.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
In The Press
Scientific Misinformation Is Criminalizing the Standard of Care for Transgender Youth — A Commentary by Anne Alstott ’87 et al.
JAMA Pediatrics
Anne Alstott is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor at Yale Law School.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
In The Press
Here’s How States Can Empower Citizens to Help Combat Gun Violence — A Commentary by Ian Ayres ’86 and Fredrick Vars ’99
The Washington Post
Ian Ayres ’86 is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor at Yale Law School and a Professor at Yale’s School of Management.
Friday, July 22, 2022
In The Press
Religious Doctrine, Not the Constitution, Drove the Dobbs Decision — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL is Clinical Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
In The Press
Academics Attack Florida Plan to Limit Transgender Treatment
AP
Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation Anne Alstott ’87 is one of the authors of a new expert analysis that refutes a Florida Medicaid agency report on transgender care.
Alumni & Student Profiles
Today is a wonderful time to be blessed with legal training and to be able to go out and take on the enormous challenges of a difficult world — with an aspiration to lead tempered by humility at the complexity, difficulty, discipline, and self-sacrifice inherent in the task.”
Ben W. Heineman, Jr.
Class of 1971