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.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
News
Clinic Reaches Settlement Agreement in Bureau of Prisons COVID-19 Case
The parties in Martinez-Brooks v. Easter have reached an agreement to ensure that the Federal Bureau of Prisons takes speedy action in reviewing medically vulnerable individuals for release from the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, CT. The Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic represented the proposed class.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020
In The Press
Joining COVAX Could Save American Lives — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh et al.
Foreign Policy
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Eric A. Friedman is the O'Neill Institute’s Global Health Justice Scholar and the Project Leader for the Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH). Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor at Georgetown University and director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and is the Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law. Matthew M. Kavanagh, PhD is assistant professor of global health at Georgetown University and director of the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. John T. Monahan is a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy and a senior scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.
Friday, September 4, 2020
In The Press
Mitch McConnell May Have Accidentally Saved Obamacare
Slate
John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence William Eskridge ’78 is quoted in Slate about the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
Friday, August 14, 2020
In The Press
2nd Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Suit Targeting Connecticut Over Ebola Quarantines
New York Law Journal
William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Michael Wishnie ’93 is quoted in a New York Law Journal story about the dismissal of a constitutional challenge to Connecticut’s use of quarantine measures for residents who returned from West Africa during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
In The Press
The Second Oxford Statement on International Law Protections of the Healthcare Sector During Covid-19: Safeguarding Vaccine Research
Just Security
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh and others have drafted a statement on the cyber protections needed by vaccine research, and how international law applies to the protection of the development, testing, manufacture, and distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
In The Press
Can plaintiffs from other countries hold China legally accountable for the coronavirus pandemic in their respective courts?
ABA Journal
Howard M. Holtzmann Professor Emeritus of Law Lea Brilmayer is quoted in an American Bar Association Journal article about whether China can be held legally responsible for the coronavirus pandemic.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
In The Press
The Supreme Court’s Religious Crusaders Take On the Pandemic Response — A Commentary by Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL
NYTimes.com
Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence at Yale Law School.
Alumni & Student Profiles
Karen Porter
Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Executive Director of the Center for Health, Science, and Public Policy, Brooklyn Law School
Yale Law School graduates are leaders in all walks of life, in the private as well as the public sector. Indeed, many work in both sectors over the course of their careers.”
Roberta Romano ’80
Sterling Professor of Law and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law