On March 28, UM Carey will host 12 teams from 8 law schools at the first Health Law Compliance and Regulatory Competition. Students will be challenged with a fact pattern involving a healthcare stakeholder, and each team must work together to present a legal and policy solution using federal health regulations, rules, and agency documents. Six guest judges will evaluate each team based on a written submission and an oral presentation.
Participating schools include American University Washington College of Law, George Mason University School of Law, the George Washington University Law School, Georgia State University College of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Widener Law, and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Judges include Jason Christ, Epstein Becker Green; Anjali Downs, Epstein Becker Green; Christina McGarvey, Senior Counsel, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; Christine M. Morse, Principal at Ober Kaler; Frank Palumbo, Professor and Executive Director of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Center on Drugs and Public Policy; and Sanford V. Teplitzky, Adjunct Professor of Law and Principal and chair of the Health Law Group at Ober Kaler.
The competition is sponsored by the Law & Health Care Program and the Student Health Law Organization.