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Recent News From the Center
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December 11, 2025Professors Sharona Hoffman and Cassandra Robertson recently published βPatient Autonomy, Public Safety and Drivers with Cognitive Declineβ in UC Irvine Law Review (vol. 15:925). In the article, the authors recommend a framework for enhanced medical and regulatory protocols to navigate theβ¦ -
December 04, 2025The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Susan Hatters-Friedman, MD (CWR β96, MED β99), was awarded the Isaac Ray Award by the American Psychological Association (APA). Hatters-Friedman is an adjunct professor at Case ΒιΆΉΣ³» School of Law and the Phillip J. Resnickβ¦ -
November 21, 2025In September, Assistant Professor Yaron Covo and co-authors from the Yale University School of Medicine published an opinion piece in STAT News, a leading medical news platform. In the piece, Covo and his co-authors question the social desirability of sports leaguesβ βinjury reports,β which areβ¦ -
July 17, 2025Professor Sharona Hoffman participated in a writerβs workshop at Harvard Law School on June 9, 2025. Her talk was entitled βAddressing the Challenges of Cognitive Decline in the Physician Workforce.β The workshopβs subject was βLaw, Health Care, and the Aging Brain and Body.β The conferenceβ¦ -
May 30, 2025Jessie Hill's article "Recentering the Pregnant Body: Moving Beyond the Medicalized Framework in Abortion Advocacy," is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. Hill argues that abortion rights advocates have long treated abortion as primarily a medical issue, while minimizing itsβ¦