Law & Health Care Program

Expanding health insurance to uncovered populations. Physician-assisted suicide. The use of genetic information. Racial and ethnic disparities in access to health care. These and other issues are among the most complex and controversial in our society today.

A pioneer in health care law, the Law and Health Care Program (L&HCP) combines education and research on emerging medical, health policy and legal matters, addressing health law issues from both legal and interdisciplinary perspectives, and capitalizes on access to the state and federal government. Ranked #3 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of the nation's best law school specialty programs, the L&HCP continues to meet the growing demand for lawyers and policy makers capable of addressing this increasingly complex field.

Professor Leslie Meltzer Henry’s article “The Jurisprudence of Dignity” was just published by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Volume 160, p. 169). Professor Henry joined the law school community as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and is an associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She teaches Constitutional Law II: Individual Rights; Advanced Bioethics and the Law; Bioethics Seminar; Public Health and the Law; and Reproductive Justice and the Law. Her scholarly interests include constitutional theory and interpretation, health policy and social justice, bioethics, military ethics, and clinical research ethics.

Law & Health Care Program Publishes Maryland Guardianship Handbook

The L&HCP and the Maryland State Bar Association have published a guide to help both laypeople and attorneys navigate adult guardianship in Maryland. The guide - “Guardianship and Its Alternatives: A Handbook on Maryland Law” – was originally written by UM Carey Law Professor Joan O’Sullivan, a champion for the legal rights of the elderly, who passed away in 2007. The 2011 Edition was revised and updated by Virginia Rowthorn, JD, Managing Director of the Law & Health Care Program, and Ellen Callegary, JD, a prominent elder law and disability lawyer in Maryland. For more information, please contact Virginia Rowthorn at vrowthorn@law.umaryland.edu

Health Law Alum Talks About His Career

John F. Lessner '93
Associate General Counsel
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Law & Health Care Program Publishes Maryland Guardianship Handbook

Health Law Alum Talks About His Career

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