Boston University School of Law Health Law Brochure

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TOP SCHOOL > BU LAW RANKS AMONG THE BEST LAW SCHOOLS IN THE NATION. AND THE WORLD.

TOP FACULTY > OFTEN CITED AND QUOTED, SOUGHT AFTER AS CONSULTANTS, HIGHLY RANKED AS TEACHERS.

TOP RANKING > OUR HEALTH LAW PROGRAM IS RANKED #5 NATIONALLY BY U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT.

A LEADING HEALTH LAW PROGRAM IN A LEADING HEALTH CARE CITY.

A singular program in a growing field.

Health care now encompasses almost 18% of our gross national product and is growing. The number of critical legal issues associated with it is growing, too, including health

Our faculty: go-to experts for health and legal professionals.

Our health law faculty includes some of the most respected names in the field. They write influential books and articles for leading journals, testify before Congress, shape the debate over health care policy, and write about cutting-edge issues at the intersection of health care and law.

care coverage and reimbursement, health and human rights, access to electronic health records, public health and environmental risks, fraud and abuse, intellectual property rights, and global health.

A number of programs have arisen to meet the need, but Boston University School of Law offers something unique: a health law program that ranks among the very best in the country in a city—Boston—that ranks among the most important health care centers in the world. In fact, our Health Law

> GEORGE J. ANNAS WILLIAM FAIRFIELD WARREN DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, CHAIRMAN OF HEALTH LAW, BIOETHICS & HUMAN RIGHTS DEPARTMENT, PROFESSOR OF LAW AB magna cum laude, Harvard College JD, Harvard Law School MPH, Harvard School of Public Health Recent course topics: American Bioethics; Health & Human Rights; Public Health Law Significant publications: Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health; American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries; The Rights of Patients

program has been in U.S. News & World Report’s top five every year since they began ranking the category.

We offer a concentration in health law, as well as healthrelated dual degrees with the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, and Questrom School of Business. Each year, we welcome health law experts to participate in conferences and an endowed lecture in health law. BU Law is also home to the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, which publishes the highly regarded American Journal of Law & Medicine. And our faculty is internationally renowned.

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> LEONARD H. GLANTZ PROFESSOR OF HEALTH LAW, BIOETHICS & HUMAN RIGHTS, PROFESSOR OF LAW, PROFESSOR OF SOCIO-MEDICAL SCIENCES AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE AB, Boston University JD, Boston University School of Law Recent course topics: Public Health Law; Law & Ethics for Public Health Leaders; Health Care Rationing; Medicine, Markets & Morals Significant publications: Children as Research Subjects; The Rights of Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals; Informed Consent to Human Experimentation: The Subject’s Dilemma

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> WENDY K. MARINER EDWARD R. UTLEY PROFESSOR OF HEALTH LAW, BIOETHICS & HUMAN RIGHTS, PROFESSOR OF LAW, PROFESSOR OF SOCIO-MEDICAL SCIENCES AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE BA, Wellesley College JD, Columbia University LLM in Tax, New York University MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

> KEVIN OUTTERSON PROFESSOR OF HEALTH LAW, BIOETHICS & HUMAN RIGHTS, PROFESSOR OF LAW BS, Northwestern University JD, Northwestern University LLM, University of Cambridge Recent course topics: Health Care Law; Food & Drug Law; Corporations; Health Care Transactions; Constitutional Health Care Litigation

Recent course topics: Public Health Law; Health Insurance, Health Reform & the Law; Legal Strategies to Reduce Health Risk

Significant publications: numerous articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and other peer-reviewed journals in addition to traditional law reviews. Topics generally at the intersection of health law, science, and intellectual property.

Significant publications: Public Health Law (law school textbook); more than 100 articles in the legal, medical, and health policy literature

> KATHRYN ZEILER NANCY BARTON SCHOLAR, PROFESSOR OF LAW BS, Indiana University MS, Taxation, Golden Gate University MS, Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology JD, University of Southern California Law School PhD, Economics, California Institute of Technology

> FRANCES MILLER PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITA BA, Mount Holyoke College JD cum laude, Boston University School of Law Areas of expertise: health law; food and drug law; biotechnology and genetics; comparative health systems; competition versus regulation in health care

Recent course topics: Health Law: Business, Organization & Finance; Tort Law; Law & Economics Seminar; Economic Analysis of Health Care Law

Recent course topics: Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law; Antitrust Issues in Health Care

Significant publications: numerous articles, including “Do Damages Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums?: A Systematic Review of Estimates and the Methods Used to Produce Them” (Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts); “Empirical Health Law Scholarship: The State of the Field” (Georgetown Law Journal); and “Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis or Patient Compensation Crisis? ” (DePaul Law Review, Rising Stars Symposium)

Significant publications: “Rights and Resources” volume of the International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law series; numerous articles in legal and medical journals

> ABIGAIL MONCRIEFF PETER PAUL CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW BA cum laude, Wellesley College JD with honors, University of Chicago Law School Recent course topics: Administrative Law; Health Care Reform & the Constitution; Health Law: Medicine & Ethics Significant publications: “Reincarnating the ‘Major Questions’ exception to Chevron Deference as a Doctrine of Noninter­ ference (or Why Massachusetts v. EPA Got It Wrong)” in Administrative Law Review; numerous articles on health care reform in leading journals, including Boston University Law Review and Columbia Law Review 4

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Learn more about our faculty at bu.edu/law/faculty

Leading Health Law Books

by BU Law Faculty CHILDREN AS RESEARCH SUBJECTS Leonard Glantz

PUBLIC HEALTH LAW George Annas and Wendy Mariner

RIGHTS AND RESOURCES Frances Miller

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Where the finest minds meet.

BU Law annually sponsors both a lecture and symposium that focus on health law topics. The 2016 Health Law Professors Conference is being held here.

Additionally, the student-run Health Law Association organizes guest lecturers, events, and various opportunities for the BU community to engage with the latest topics in health law and public health.

PIKE LECTURE ON HEALTH LAW This annual lecture is held in honor of BU Law alumnus Neal Pike (’37), a distinguished lawyer and lifelong advocate for individuals with disabilities. Each year, the speaker addresses an issue at the intersection of law and health. Topics have included abuse of mentally ill prisoners, military health care, and physician-assisted suicide.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW & MEDICINE SYMPOSIUM Cosponsored by BU Law and the American Journal of Law & Medicine, this annual symposium brings together health law experts from law schools, government agencies, research institutes, and the private sector to discuss contemporary issues in the field. Previous symposia have focused on the Affordable Care Act, food safety, and tobacco regulation.

HEALTH LAW PROFESSORS CONFERENCE In 2016, BU Law will host the Health Law Professors Conference, which brings together professionals who teach law or bioethics in schools of law, medicine, public health, health care administration, pharmacy, nursing, and dentistry. The program provides participants with updates on issues at the forefront of law and medicine and an opportunity to share strategies, ideas, and materials.

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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS BU Law hosts the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) on our campus.

With roots extending back to 1911, ASLME is a nonprofit educational organization that provides high-quality scholarship, debate, and critical thought for professionals at the intersection of law, medicine, and ethics.

Members examine big health questions with far-reaching social ramifications, like genetic testing and research, medical record privacy, end-of-life decisions, and the dynamics of informed consent. ASLME creates a forum to exchange ideas from a wide range of perspectives to protect public health; reduce racial, ethnic, and economic health disparities; promote patient safety and quality of care; and facilitate dialogue on emerging biomedical science and research.

If it happens in health care, it happens here.

Few places challenge Boston as a welcoming place for health law scholarship and research. The city and surrounding area are home to some of the most highly regarded hospitals and medical schools in the world. The Massachusetts legislature, a frequent innovator in health care legislation, meets in the State House just two miles from our campus. And the city consistently ranks as a leading hub for biotech innovation. In fact, the Boston area ranks #1 in the nation for its life sciences industry for the third straight year, according to the Global Life Sciences Cluster Report. Researchers find extensive resources in the area—as well as on our campus—for all health law interests, from protection of participants in clinical trials to pharmaceutical regulation to cutting-edge legislation designed to cover the uninsured.

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Visit bu.edu/law/healthlaw to learn more about the health law program.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW & MEDICINE Since 1975, ASLME and BU Law have jointly produced this quarterly, ranked the #2 journal in health, medicine, psychology & psychiatry by the Washington & Lee Law Journal. This interdisciplinary periodical specializes in domestic and international health care law and contains professional articles, student notes and case comments; summaries of recent legislative and judicial developments; and book reviews. Articles explore bioethics, health care financing, health policy, fraud and abuse, intellectual property, and many other health-related fields.

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